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Stardust Award for Best Director – Thriller or Action

Film award in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7601587 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Stardust Award for Best Director – Thriller/Action is a category at the Stardust Awards, an annual event recognizing achievements in Hindi-language films in India, first held in 2003. Organized by Stardust magazine, the award recognizes direction in the thriller and action genres. Winners are selected by the magazine's readers.

Winners

See also

Bollywood

Cinema of India

References

External links

"Winners of Max Stardust Awards 2008". indiaFM. 26 January 2008. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2007.

"indiafm.com". Sanjay Dutt: Star of the Year 2007. Archived from the original on 28 May 2007.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Stardust Award for Best Director – Thriller or Action” is film award in India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stardust, Award and Best, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2008, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Stardust, Award and Best is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stardust Award for Best Director – Thriller or Action” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.