Amrit Nahata (16 May 1928 – 26 April 2001) was an Indian politician, three-time member of Lok Sabha and film maker.
He was elected to Lok Sabha twice from Barmer, as a member of the Indian National Congress, the second largest parliamentary constituency in India over twice the size of Belgium.
He later served a third term in Lok Sabha as a member of the Janata Party, representing Pali constituency.
He left Congress after the Emergency, made the controversial film Kissa Kursi Ka in 1977 and joined Janata Party.
The subsequent Shah Commission established to inquiry into excesses committed in the Indian Emergency found Sanjay Gandhi guilt of burning the negative, along with V. C. Shukla, Information and Broadcasting minister of the time, they both spent a month and two-year jail term.