Vasan Bala

Vasan Bala is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work in Hindi cinema He wrote the scripts for the period crime drama Bombay Velvet 2015 and the psychological thriller Raman Raghav 20 2016 Bala made his directorial debut with the crime thriller Peddlers in 2012 which earned him a nomination for the Golden Camera Award at Cannes Hes also worked as an assistant director on films like DevD 2009 Gulaal 2009 and Trishna 2011 As a dialogue writer hes contributed to The Lunchbox 2013 and Rukh 2017 In 2019 he released his film Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota His latest directorial was Dharma Productions Jigra 2024 starring Alia Bhatt