# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basu-bhattacharya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:56:23.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basu-bhattacharya"
name: "Basu Bhattacharya"
slug: "basu-bhattacharya"
description: "Basu Bhattacharya was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 film Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1967. The most popular and critically acclaimed film which he directed remains Avishkaar, starring Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore, which received five stars in Bollywood Guide Collections and for which Khanna received the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1975."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Basu_Bhattacharya.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934"
deathDate: "1997-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.2
  momentum:             9.642857142857146
  historical:           6.2801
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080345/"
    handle:    "nm0080345"
sources:
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    title: "باسو بھٹاچاریہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باسو بهاتاتشاريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "বাসু ভট্টাচার্য্য"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basu_Bhattacharya"
    title: "Basu Bhattacharya"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basu_Bhattacharya"
    title: "Basu Bhattacharya"
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    title: "बासू भट्टाचार्य"
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    title: "బసు భట్టాచార్య"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1277848"
    title: "Basu Bhattacharya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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