Punit Malhotra (born 13 May 1981) is an Indian film director who works in Hindi cinema.

Punit Malhotra was born on 13 May 1981, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and brought up in its Bandra coastal suburb.

His first cousins are filmmakers Suneel and Dharmesh Darshan; well-known director David Dhawan is his father's first cousin; and the famous designer Manish Malhotra, who was also the costume designer for his first movie I Hate Luv Storys (2010), is his paternal uncle.

Malhotra's second movie was Gori Tere Pyaar Mein, produced under Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, starring Kareena Kapoor and Imran Khan who were earlier paired in Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu.

[4] In 2019 he directed the movie Student of the Year 2 starring Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria and Ananya Pandey [citation needed] In 2020 he directed music videos "Unbelievable" and "Casanova", both featuring Tiger Shroff.