• SPARSH SANWAL

Abstract-A good director creates a playground and allows you to play. Similarly, the vision of contemporary film director Hansal Mehta succeeds in manifesting itself through all of his film capturing his style essential, which many consider phenomenal. Mehta is a contemporary director in the Hindi film industry, with ten films under his belt as a director and several other films worked in the capacity of the scriptwriter, he is known to cinema, but it has been only in very recent time that his work has been noticed, a few of them being: Shahid (2013), Citylights (2014), Aligrah (2015), and Simran (2017).Be it his earliest cookery shows KhanaKhazana on television or his first film Amrita, Hansal Mehta time and again showcased a unique perspective. A perspective that demands a study. The present research paper "Understanding style and artistry of Hansal Mehta: Through a prism of the auteur theory " attempts to get a clearer perspective of the filmmaker and his work through a close reading of his select films. The auteur theory explains the idea of a filmmaker being considered the author of his/her film. Indicating that a filmmaker with his intense contribution towards a film to be considered the author through a content analysis that theory will be tested out in the present research.

Key words: Auteur theory, Contemporary, Cinema, Film making and Hindi film industry.

"Understanding style and artistry of Hansal Mehta: Through a prism of the auteur theory", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.1018-1026, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I30.pdf

"Understanding style and artistry of Hansal Mehta: Through a prism of the auteur theory", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp1018-1026, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I30.pdf