J. P. Dutta

Jyoti Prakash Dutta is a famous Indian film director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. His best known directed films are Ghulami (1985), Yateem (1988), Batwara (1989), Kshatriya (1993) and Border (1997). He is also known for making patriotic, epic war films, such as Border (1997), LOC Kargil (2003), Paltan (2018) and upcoming Border 2 (2026).

J. P. Dutta
Dutta in 2013
Born	Jyoti Prakash Dutta Bombay, Bombay State, India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Occupations	Film director, producer, writer
Years active	1985– present
Notable work	Ghulami Yateem Batwara Kshatriya Border
Spouse	Bindiya Goswami
Parent	O. P. Dutta (father)

Personal life

Dutta is married to the Bollywood film actress Bindiya Goswami with whom he has two daughters Nidhi Dutta and Siddhi Dutta. Nidhi is also a film writer and a producer.^[1]

Career

He headed the feature film section jury for the National Film Awards (2010), according to sources in the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.^[2] He went on to make and direct successful films like Ghulami, Yateem, Batwara, Kshatriya and Border.

Film Production

J. P. Dutta owns the film production company – J. P. Films.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Star cast	Notes
1985	Ghulami	Yes		Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Mithun Chakraborty, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Reena Roy
1988	Yateem	Yes		Sunny Deol, Farah, Danny Denzongpa, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sujata Mehta, Amrish Puri
1989	Batwara	Yes		Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Amrita Singh, Poonam Dhillon, Amrish Puri
	Hathyar	Yes		Dharmendra, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor, Amrita Singh
1993	Kshatriya	Yes		Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Meenakshi Seshadri, Raveena Tandon, Sunil Dutt (special appearance)
1997	Border	Yes	Yes	Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Puneet Issar, Sudesh Berry, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
2000	Refugee	Yes	Yes	Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Suniel Shetty, Jackie Shroff
2003	LOC: Kargil	Yes	Yes	Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Abhishek Bachchan, Mohnish Bahl
2006	Umrao Jaan	Yes	Yes	Aishwarya Rai, Shabana Azmi, Suniel Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan
2018	Paltan	Yes	Yes	Jackie Shroff, Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Gurmeet Choudhary, Harshvardhan Rane, Siddhanth Kapoor
2026	Border 2 †		Yes	Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ahan Shetty, Mona Singh, Sonam Bajwa	A Sequel to Border (1997)