Here are a few top 10 film critics in India.

• Amit Khanna:

Amit Khanna is an Award winning movie lyricist and producer. A middle member of Dev Anand’s production house, he has served as the executive producer of 7 Hindi films under its banner in the 70s and 80s. As a lyricist, he has penned over four hundred songs. He has co-authored numerous books including Encyclopædia Britannica’s Encyclopedia of Bollywood and is now documenting the History of Indian Media & Entertainment. He has been named through ‘Time’, ‘Newsweek’, ‘Hollywood Reporter, and ‘Variety’ as one of the worldwide leaders of TV and movie, and is credited with coining the term “Bollywood”.

• Christopher Dalton:

Christopher Dalton — essentially a movie critic /essayist /competition advisor — started his journalistic odyssey with The Hindu. He’s the editor of Cinematic Illusions & the Journal of Indian Cinema; founding father of the Cinema Society of India (Kerala), which displays movies; CEO of House of Illusions (Mumbai), a movie studio that creates significant cinema; leader of advisory board member of the Kartik International Film Festival (Uttarakhand); & creative director of the Chalachitram National Film Festival (Assam). He has served on the track jury of Mahatma Gandhi University & on the movie jury of the 67th National Film Awards of India.

• Baradwaj Rangan:

Baradwaj Rangan is a movie critic. He’s the writer of Conversations with Mani Ratnam and Dispatches From the Wall Corner. And his tale on Vikram was indexed through The Caravan as one in every of their “twelve definitive profiles.” Additionally, he has written screenplays, works for theatre, and teaches cinema at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He received the National Award for Best Film Critic “for smart and reader-pleasant opinions of famous cinema with an intensity of know-how of the form, a discernible ardor for the medium bulwarked constantly through an expertise of the traits and touchstones of worldwide cinema.”

• Apurba Sarma:4

Apurba Sarma is a National Award-winning movie critic (Swarna Kamal for Best Book on Cinema; 2002); Sahitya Akademi triumphing writer (for Creative Literature in Assamese; 2002); and recipient of the Assam Valley Literary Award (for Creative Literature; 2015). He was the former editor of Ajir Asom, an Assamese day by day posted through The Sentinel Group. He is also the founder-president of Xahitya Mancha Asom, a Guwahati-primarily based totally society of writers and enthusiasts of Assamese literature. He served two times (2005 and 2007) on the jury of the National Film Award.

• Meghachandra Kongbam:

Meghachandra Kongbam is a National Award triumphing movie critic. He’s a founding member of the Cine Artistes and Technicians Association, an apex frame of movie scholars, critics, filmmakers, artists, and technicians. He’s a founding member of the Manipur Film Journalists and Critics Association. He was the board director of the Manipur Film Development Corporation and director of Information & Public Relations, executive of Manipur. Presently, he is the president of the Film Society of Manipur, the president of the Banian Repertory Theatre, Imphal, and a FIPRESCI-India member.

• Deepa Gahlot:

Deepa Gahlot is a National Award triumphing movie critic, theatre critic, ee-ebook writer, and scriptwriter. She has written numerous books on cinema, which include the biographies of Shammi Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan; translated plays (through Manav Kaul and Paresh Mokashi) into English; and tailored Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist for the stage. Additionally, she has written-directed some documentary movies and radio shows and has edited the journals of NFDC and WICA. She is currently the pinnacle of programming (theatre & movie) at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA).

• Anil Zankar:

Anil Zankar is a recipient of countrywide awards, one for a movie script and the alternative for an ee-ebook on cinema. An alumnus of FTII-Pune, he has made 21 quick movies on social problems and institutions, biopics and company themes, and is a movie historian with 35 years of enjoyment in movie making, coaching, and writing. He’s the writer of Mughal-e-Azam (Harper Collins). He was the editor of a magazine, ‘Lights Camera Action’ posted in collaboration with BFI, UK. And has contributed to diverse educational journals, the Routledge Handbook Of Indian Cinema, and the Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema (Britannica).

• Dnyanesh Moghe:

Dnyanesh Moghe is a movie critic /academician /director /producer, theatre actor /director, and previous committee member/curator of the Goa Marathi Film Festival (GMFF). His movie Digant was nominated at IFFI and MAMI and performed on Doordarshan for three years. He has served three times at the jury of the Kolhapur International Film Festival and two times at the jury of the National Film Awards. Presently, he’s at the Mumbai censor board and is an EC member of the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) and the Goa bankruptcy of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR, Govt. of India).

• Oorvazi Irani:

Oorvazi Irani is a movie educationist, performing coach, and indie filmmaker who teaches at FTII, and Whistling Woods and heads the movie situation on the SVKM JV Parekh International School. She has performed movie workshops and appreciation lessons at Mumbai University, the Digital Film Academy, the Institute of Creative Excellence, the Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Prithvi Theatre, and Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute, and the Russian Culture Centre. She has written for movie journals and textbooks. And has served at the jury of the International Children’s Film Festival.

• Saibal Chatterjee:

Saibal Chatterjee is a National Award triumphing movie critic, writer of an ee-ebook on Gulzar, co-editor of an ee-ebook on movies, and a documentary scriptwriter. He was a group of workers creator of The Telegraph, The Times of India, and Outlook; the editor of TV World; a representative of Zee Premiere, and a key member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Brittanica’s Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. On the movie front, he has served at the jury of plenty of global movie festivals and is the competition director of the Pondicherry International Film Festival.

• Devdutt Trivedi:

Devdutt Trivedi lectures on classical movie principles at École intuit. lab; and on artwork records, records of photograph design, and cinema studies, at different institutes. He opinions movies for Scroll and is a movie programmer at Osianama. He has skilled in artwork and movie grievance approached thru philosophy, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he did his Master of Arts. His thesis, ‘Chhand, Cinema and the Theories of Gilles Deleuze, examines the movies of Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, and Mani Kaul, and is indicative of his hobby of combining philosophical standards with movie praxis.

• Rashmi Doraiswamy:

Rashmi Doraiswamy is a National Film Award triumphing movie critic and writer/editor/translator of numerous books on cinema. She acquired her M. Phil from the Centre for Russian Studies, JNU, for her dissertation, ‘A Critique of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory of Literature withinside the Context of Contemporary Theories of Literature and the Formalist School of the 20s’. She is presently a Professor (Central Asia) at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. She was offered a Certificate of Appreciation through the Tadjik Filmmakers’ Union for the lively merchandising of Tadjik cinema.

• Utpal Datta:

Utpal Datta is a National-Award-winning Assamese movie critic, writer/editor/translator, and Assam State-Award-winning filmmaker. He has additionally been venerated with the ‘RAPA for Radio Production’, the ‘Moonlight Media Award for Cultural Journalism’, the ‘Jyotirupa Media Award for Film Criticism’ and the ‘Laadli Media Award for Radio Production’. Additionally, he has served as a jury member for the ‘ERA Excellence in Radio Award and the ‘Assam State Film Award’. He is currently the assistant director of AIR-Guwahati and the competition director of the Chalachitra National Film Festival.

• Ratnottama Sengupta:

Ratnottama Sengupta, daughter of mythical scriptwriter Nabendu Ghosh, is the previous arts editor of the Times of India. She’s additionally a movie competition -curator/-panelist /-organizer; documentary filmmaker; and the writer and editor of numerous books on cinema and movie personalities. She has served on CBBF; the NFDC Script Committee; the National Film Awards, IFFI, and diverse different outstanding global movie juries. And is a recipient of the National Film Award for Best Writing on Cinema.

• Bikas Mishra:

Bikas Mishra is an award-winning filmmaker and movie journalist. His debut feature ‘Chauranga’ received the NFDC Incredible India Award further to awards on the MAMI and IFFLA. His quick movie ‘Dance of Ganesha had its international ideal on the sixteenth Busan International Film Festival and its European ideal on the forty-first International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is a recipient of the celebrated Hubert Bals Fund for script development. He is likewise the writer of the (now-ceased) online movie publication, Dear Cinema. And in 2012, he was invited to the Visionary Jury of Critics Week of the Cannes Film Festival.

• Madhu Eravankara:

Madhu Eravankara is a movie-maker, -scholar, and –critic, and former HoD of Film Studies at Malayalam University. He is a recipient of the President’s Gold Medal, the National Film Award,  State Film Awards, the Film Critics Award, the State Television Award, the International Documentary Film Award, the Greens Award for Environmental movies, and the Kozhikodan Award for Best Book on Cinema. He is a member of the Malayalam Cine Technicians Association (MACTA), the founder and president of the Documentary & Short Film Producers Association of Kerala (DOSPAK), and a former secretary of FIPRESCI-India.