# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bharathan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:18:04.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bharathan"
name: "Bharathan"
slug: "bharathan"
description: "Bharathan Parameshwara Menon Palissery , known mononymously as Bharathan, was an Indian film maker, artist, and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan and K. G. George, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed. A train of directors, and screenwriters followed this school onto the 1990s including Sibi Malayil, Kamal, Lohithadas and Jayaraj."
tagline: "Indian film director (1947–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bharathan_(cropped).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: "1947-11-14"
deathDate: "1998-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.34
  momentum:             7.619372541794982
  historical:           8.604609333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080245/"
    handle:    "nm0080245"
sources:
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    title: "భరతన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharathan"
    title: "Bharathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bharathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Bharathan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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