# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-v-meiyappan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:31:50.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-v-meiyappan"
name: "A. V. Meiyappan"
slug: "a-v-meiyappan"
description: "Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar, also known as A. V. Meiyappan, A. V. Meiyappa Chettiar or AVM, was an Indian film producer, film director and screenwriter who established AVM Productions in Vadapalani, Chennai. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Tamil cinema, and one of three movie moguls of the South Indian film industry along with S. S. Vasan and L. V. Prasad. His production company AVM Productions is the only production company in Kollywood to run successfully for five decades and three generations."
tagline: "Tamil film producer, director and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AV_Meiyappan_2006_stamp_of_India.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: "1907-07-28"
deathDate: "1979-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.82
  momentum:             0.6875000000000001
  historical:           6.27812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577149/"
    handle:    "nm0577149"
sources:
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    title: "اے وی میاپن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%89._%DA%A4%D9%89._%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اى. ڤى. مياپان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._V._Meiyappan"
    title: "A. V. Meiyappan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%8E.%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF.%E0%B2%8E%E0%B2%82.%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ಎ.ವಿ.ಎಂ.ಚೆಟ್ಟಿಯಾರ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avichi_Meiyappa_Chettiar"
    title: "Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "अविची मैयप्पा चेट्टियार"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஆவிச்சி மெய்யப்பன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1034414"
    title: "A. V. Meiyappan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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