# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/baradwaj-rangan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:11:13.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/baradwaj-rangan"
name: "Baradwaj Rangan"
slug: "baradwaj-rangan"
description: "Baradwaj Rangan is an Indian film critic and writer. A chemical engineering graduate with no formal training in filmmaking or cinema writing, he has a diverse career in advertising, IT consulting, and cinema writing. He has authored two books on Indian cinema, written for The New Indian Express, The Hindu, and Tehelka, and has also been a screenwriter."
tagline: "Indian film critic and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baradwaj_Rangan_Sept_2014.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.54
  momentum:             0.1963993453355156
  historical:           5.556378666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/baradwajrangan"
    handle:    "baradwajrangan"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/baradwajrangan/"
    handle:    "baradwajrangan"
sources:
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    title: "バラドワジ・ランガン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baradwaj Rangan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baradwaj Rangan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "巴拉德瓦傑·蘭甘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "பரத்வாஜ் ரங்கன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بردواج رنگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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