Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist known for his works in Bollywood. He made his directorial debut by co-directing Chillar Party (2011) which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film for that year. He then directed the supernatural political drama Bhoothnath Returns (2014) which became a box office hit.

In 2016, he scripted, and directed Dangal which was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in April 2017 and second BRICS festival in June 2017. The film is the highest-grossing Indian films and the fifth highest grossing non-English film, having collected over ₹2,000 crore (US$280 million) of which more than ₹1,200 crore was earned in China, where it has emerged as one of the top 20 highest-grossers of all time.

Nitesh Tiwari 是一位印度电影导演、编剧和作词家，以其在宝莱坞的作品而闻名。他的导演处女作是联合执导的《Chillar Party》（2011 年），该片获得了当年国家电影奖最佳儿童电影奖。然后，他执导了超自然政治剧《Bhoothnath Returns》（2014 年），该剧票房大卖。

2016年，他编剧并执导了《Dangal》，该片于2017年4月在北京国际电影节和2017年6月的第二届金砖国家电影节上放映。这部电影是票房最高的印度电影，也是票房第五高的非英语电影，票房超过200亿卢比（2.8亿美元），其中超过120亿卢比来自中国，已成为有史以来票房最高的20部电影之一。