# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hansal-mehta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:31:09.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hansal-mehta"
name: "Hansal Mehta"
slug: "hansal-mehta"
description: "Hansal Mehta is an Indian filmmaker. He started his career with television show Khana Khazana (1993–2000) and later moved on to directing films like Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! (2000), Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai? (2002) and Woodstock Villa (2008). He received critical acclaim with Shahid (2013), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Direction. He was nominated for a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film for Faraaz (2023). He directed the television series Scam 1992 (2020), for which he won the Filmfare OTT Award for best director and Scoop (2023), which won the Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Award for best Asian television series."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hansal_Mehta_(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: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.46
  momentum:             1.66055351783928
  historical:           8.185117333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mehtahansal"
    handle:    "mehtahansal"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576554/"
    handle:    "nm0576554"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://hansalmehta.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%85%DB%81%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "ہنسل مہتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "هانسال ميهتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "হংসল মেহতা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansal_Mehta"
    title: "Hansal Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "هانسال مهتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "हंसल मेहता"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansal_Mehta"
    title: "Hansal Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4"
    title: "ഹൻസൽ മേഹ്ത്ത"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BE"
    title: "హన్సల్ మెహతా"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16732431"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/990865"
    title: "Hansal Mehta"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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