# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-c-tirulokchandar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:30:40.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-c-tirulokchandar"
name: "A. C. Tirulokchandar"
slug: "a-c-tirulokchandar"
description: "Arcot Chengalvaraya Thirulokachandar was an Indian film director and screenwriter who worked mainly in Tamil films from the 1950s to 1988. He also directed a few films in Hindi and Telugu. His 1969 Tamil film Deiva Magan was the first South Indian film to be submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/A.C._Thirulokchandar.jpg"
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: "1930-06-11"
deathDate: "2016-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.77
  momentum:             7.6905311778291
  historical:           8.827576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0858235"
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    title: "А. Ч. Тирулокчандар"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump