# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/apurva-asrani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:52.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/apurva-asrani"
name: "Apurva Asrani"
slug: "apurva-asrani"
description: "Apurva Asrani is an Indian filmmaker. He has written the human rights drama Aligarh (2016), the courtroom drama Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors (2020), has co-written and edited the film Shahid (2013), has edited the gangster film Satya (1998) and also the webseries Made in Heaven (2019)."
tagline: "Indian film maker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Apurva_Asrani_in_2012.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: "1978-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.8
  momentum:             3.305084745762711
  historical:           5.570125333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039724/"
    handle:    "nm0039724"
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    title: "ابورفا اسرانى"
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    title: "Apurva Asrani"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump