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Himanshu Sharma (हिमांशु शर्मा)

Himanshu Sharma (हिमांशु शर्मा), born 1980 in Lucknow, is an Indian screenwriter and producer in Hindi cinema, writer of Tanu Weds Manu (2011, 2015) and Raanjhanaa (2013), and a double National Film Award winner for Tanu Weds Manu Returns.

Himatsuri

Himatsuri (火まつり, Fire Festival) is a 1985 Japanese drama directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi from Kenji Nakagami's first screenplay, about a Kumano lumberjack who kills his family after a storm; shown at Cannes 1985.

Himeko (無量塔 姫子)

Murata Himeko (無量塔 姫子) is a greatsword-wielding Valkyrie major, St. Freya Academy instructor, and former Hyperion captain in Honkai Impact 3rd, distinct from the Star Rail Himeko; born 1989, died 2016 in-story.

Himesh Patel

Himesh Jitendra Patel (born 1990, Huntingdon) is an English actor, ex-EastEnders Tamwar Masood 2007–2016, lead of Yesterday (2019), Tenet, Station Eleven (2022 Emmy nominee), later in Nolan's The Odyssey.

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (秘密戦隊ゴレンジャー)

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (秘密戦隊ゴレンジャー) is the 1975–1977 Toei tokusatsu series, 84 episodes on NET, created by Shotaro Ishinomori, regarded as the first Super Sentai series, with five color-coded rangers fighting the Black Cross Army.

Himizu (ヒミズ)

Himizu (ヒミズ) is a 2011 Japanese drama by Sion Sono adapting Minoru Furuya's manga, starring Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido as teenagers in post-3.11 Japan; both won Venice's Marcello Mastroianni Award.

Himmatwala (हिम्मतवाला) (1983 film)

Himmatwala (हिम्मतवाला), 1983 Hindi masala film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, produced by G.A. Seshagiri Rao under Padmalaya; remake of Telugu Ooriki Monagadu; stars Jeetendra and Sridevi; highest-grossing Indian film of 1983.

Himmatwala (हिम्मतवाला) (2013 film)

Himmatwala (हिम्मतवाला), 2013 Hindi action comedy directed by Sajid Khan, starring Ajay Devgn and Tamannaah Bhatia; a reworking of the 1983 Jeetendra film, released 29 March 2013 and a box-office flop.

Himouto! Umaru-chan (干物妹!うまるちゃん)

Himouto! Umaru-chan (干物妹!うまるちゃん), gag manga by Sankakuhead in Weekly Young Jump 2013–2018, 12 volumes; perfect-schoolgirl Umaru Doma becomes a cola-and-chips gremlin at home; two Doga Kobo anime seasons (2015, 2017 R), Seven Seas English release.

Himura Kenshin (緋村剣心)

Himura Kenshin (緋村剣心), protagonist of Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga: a Meiji-era wanderer, once the assassin Hitokiri Battosai of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, red-haired with a cross scar, wielding a reverse-blade sword under a vow never to kill.

Hina Khan (हिना ख़ान)

Hina Khan (हिना ख़ान), born 1987 in Srinagar, is an Indian actress known as Akshara in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, Komolika in Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Bigg Boss 11 runner-up, and films Lines, Hacked, and Griha Laxmi.

Hinata Hiiragi

Hinata Hiiragi (柊木陽太) is a Japanese actor from Kyoto, born 2011, managed by Stardust Promotion. He debuted in 2021, starred in Kore-eda's Monster (2023) as Yori Hoshikawa, won the 47th Japan Academy Prize Newcomer award, and stars in Sheep in the Box (2026).

Hinata Hyuga (日向 ヒナタ)

Hinata Hyuga (日向ヒナタ), later Hinata Uzumaki, is a kunoichi of Konohagakure in Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto; Hyuga clan heiress with the Byakugan and Gentle Fist, Naruto's wife and mother of Boruto and Himawari.

Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly called Bollywood, is the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai. It began in Bombay in 1896, adopted sound with Alam Ara (1931), and spans the 1950s Golden era, 1970s masala films, and today's box-office leader.

Hindi Medium (हिंदी मीडियम)

Hindi Medium (हिंदी मीडियम) is a 2017 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Saket Chaudhary, starring Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar as Delhi parents faking poverty to get their daughter into an elite English-medium school; it earned 69.59 crore and won Irrfan the Filmfare Best Actor Award.

Hindi one-act play

The Hindi one-act play, called ekanki (एकांकी), is a short dramatic form in Hindi literature that completes a story in a single act, treated as an independent genre distinct from the full-length natak.

Hindi radio drama

Hindi radio drama (हिन्दी रेडियो नाटक) is dramatic fiction broadcast in Hindi, in which story and character are conveyed entirely through dialogue, sound effects, and music on All India Radio.

Hindi theatre

Hindi theatre (हिन्दी रंगमंच) is the tradition of stage drama in Hindi, developed from the late nineteenth century onward in north India and in Delhi and Mumbai.

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम) (1973 film)

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम), also An Oath on India, is a 1973 Hindi war film by Chetan Anand on Operation Cactus Lily, 1971 Indo-Pak war, starring Raaj Kumar and Priya Rajvansh, music Madan Mohan; distinct from the 1999 film of the same name.

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम) (1999 film)

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम), also Swear on India, is a 1999 Hindi action drama directed by Veeru Devgan, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ajay Devgn as separated twins on opposite sides of an Indo-Pak war; released July 23, 1999, it earned ₹13.96 crore in India.

Hinge and Bracket

Hinge & Bracket was a British comedy double act in which George Logan and Patrick Fyffe played elderly spinsters Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.

Hinterland (TV series)

Hinterland (Y Gwyll, 'the dusk') is a Welsh crime drama set in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, starring Richard Harrington as DCI Tom Mathias. Shot back-to-back in Welsh and English for S4C and BBC, it ran three series (2013-2016) and founded Welsh noir.

Hip Hop Evolution

Hip-Hop Evolution is a Canadian documentary series (2016-2020, HBO Canada and Netflix) hosted by rapper Shad, directed by Darby Wheeler for Banger Films, tracing hip-hop history from the 1970s Bronx to the 2000s across four seasons, and winning a Peabody Award and International Emmy.

Hippolyta (DC Comics)

Hippolyta, DC Comics' Queen of the Amazons and mother of Wonder Woman, debuted in All-Star Comics #8 (1941); she served as Wonder Woman herself in Wonder Woman #128-172 (1997-2001) and is played by Connie Nielsen in film.

Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος) (play)

Hippolytus (Ἱππόλυτος) is Euripides' extant tragedy (Hippolytus Stephanephoros), staged 428 BC at the City Dionysia with first prize, retelling Aphrodite's revenge on chaste Hippolytus through Phaedra's passion and false accusation, distinct from his lost earlier Hippolytus Kalyptomenos.

Hira Mani

Hira Mani (حرا مانی), born Hira Salman in 1989, is a Pakistani television actress, singer, presenter and former VJ married to actor Mani. She debuted as a host, then acted from 2015 in Preet Na Kariyo Koi, Sun Yaara, Do Bol and Dayan.

Hirak Rajar Deshe

Hirak Rajar Deshe (হীরক রাজার দেশে, Kingdom of Diamonds) is Satyajit Ray's 1980 Bengali musical fantasy, second in the Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series, a rhymed-verse satire of a diamond-hoarding tyrant defeated by Goopy, Bagha, and teacher Udayan Pandit.

Hiralal Sen

Hiralal Sen (হীরালাল সেন, 1866–1917) was a Bengali photographer and filmmaker, counted among India's first filmmakers; he ran the Royal Bioscope company in Calcutta from 1898.

Hiro Kanagawa

Hiro Kanagawa (金川 弘敦, Hironobu Kanagawa), born 1963 in Sapporo, is a Vancouver-based Japanese Canadian actor and playwright; winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for Indian Arm and known for Altered Carbon and Smallville.

Hiro Murai

Hiro Murai (ヒロ・ムライ, born 1983) is a Tokyo-born, Los Angeles-raised director of music videos and TV, known for Atlanta, "This Is America," and Widow's Bay, for which he won 2026 comedy directing and series Emmys.