Zoya Akhtar
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 14, 1972
- Place of birth
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Biography
Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Born to to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani, she completed a diploma in filmmaking from NYU, where she assisted directors such as Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before turning writer-director in her own right. She achieved her breakthrough with the comedy-drama Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Director. She has since directed the comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), segments in the anthology films Lust Stories (2018) and Ghost Stories (2020), and the musical drama Gully Boy (2019), which won her a second Filmfare Award for Best Director.
Movies with Zoya Akhtar
- Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love 1997 · ★ 5.7
- Making of Talaash 2012 · ★ 10.0
Movies directed by Zoya Akhtar
- Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 2011 · ★ 7.6
- Gully Boy 2019 · ★ 7.3
- Dil Dhadakne Do 2015 · ★ 6.9
- Lust Stories 2018 · ★ 6.3
- Ghost Stories 2020 · ★ 5.2
- Luck by Chance 2009 · ★ 6.5
- The Archies 2023 · ★ 5.6
- Bombay Talkies 2013 · ★ 6.3