# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-b-raj
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:54.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-b-raj"
name: "A. B. Raj"
slug: "a-b-raj"
description: "Antony Basker Raj, also known as A. Bhaskar Raj, was an Indian director of Malayalam movies. He was, along with Sasikumar, one of the leading and most successful directors of the 60s and 70s. Some of the prominent later year directors like Hariharan, I.V. Sasi, P. Chandrakumar and Rajasekharan were trained by him as his assistants."
tagline: "Indian film director (1925–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A.B.Raj.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1925-04-21"
deathDate: "2020-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.18
  momentum:             12.35017087821044
  historical:           5.784417333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707267/"
    handle:    "nm0707267"
sources:
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    title: "ఎ. బి. రాజ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "A. B. Raj"
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    title: "എ.ബി. രാജ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90._%D0%91._%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "А. Б. Радж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Raj"
    title: "A. B. Raj"
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  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8F._%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%8D"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4647568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "A. B. Raj"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump