# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/h-s-rawail
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:03:52.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/h-s-rawail"
name: "H. S. Rawail"
slug: "h-s-rawail"
description: "Harnam Singh Rawail, often credited as H. S. Rawail, was an Indian filmmaker. He debuted as a director with the 1940 Bollywood film Dorangia Daku and is best known for romantic films like Mere Mehboob (1963), Sunghursh (1968), Mehboob Ki Mehndi (1971) and Laila Majnu (1976). His son Rahul Rawail and grandson Rajat Rawail are also film directors; the former paid tribute to his father's film Sunghursh by titling one of his films as Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990)."
tagline: "Indian film director (1921-2004)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mPreTfxoQhh3T4IxyphObN7Aya.jpg"
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: "1921-08-21"
deathDate: "2004-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.65
  momentum:             16.43141153081511
  historical:           5.995433333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712540/"
    handle:    "nm0712540"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ایچ ایس رویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4._%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "اتش. اس. راوايل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnam_Singh_Rawail"
    title: "Harnam Singh Rawail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._S._Rawail"
    title: "H. S. Rawail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._S._Rawail"
    title: "H. S. Rawail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%9A.%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B8._%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B2"
    title: "एच.एस. रवैल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1478560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1337426"
    title: "Harnam Singh Rawail"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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