# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/habib-tanvir
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:37:55.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/habib-tanvir"
name: "Habib Tanvir"
slug: "habib-tanvir"
description: "Habib Tanvir was one of the most popular Indian Urdu playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He was the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). A pioneer in Urdu and Hindi theatre, he was most known for his work with Chhattisgarhi tribals, at the Naya Theatre, a theatre company he founded in 1959 in Bhopal. He went on to include indigenous performance forms such as nacha, to create not only a new theatrical language, but also milestones such as Charandas Chor, Gaon ka Naam Sasural, Mor Naam Damad and Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna."
tagline: "Indian actor (1923–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Indian_Writer_Habib_Tanvir.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-09-01"
deathDate: "2009-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             5.932273665384626
  historical:           11.15547866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849872/"
    handle:    "nm0849872"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump