# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/himanshu-rai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:47:06.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/himanshu-rai"
name: "Himanshu Rai"
slug: "himanshu-rai"
description: "Himanshu Rai was an Indian actor and film director. Regarded as one of the pioneers of Indian cinema, he is best known as the founder of the studio in 1934, along with Devika Rani. He was associated with a number of movies, including Goddess (1922), The Light of Asia (1925), Shiraz (1928), A Throw of Dice (1929) and Karma (1933). He was married to actress Devika Rani Chaudhuri (1929–1940)."
tagline: "Indian filmmaker (1892–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Himansu_Rai_(vers_1925).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1892"
deathDate: "1940-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.94280666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706795/"
    handle:    "nm0706795"
sources:
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    title: "ہمانشو رائے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيمانشو راى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "হিমাংশু ৰায়"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "হিমাংশু রায়"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Himansu Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هیمانشو رای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Himanshu Rai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "हिमाँशु राय"
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    title: "ヒマンシュ・ラーイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഹിമാംശു റായ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ہمانشو رائے"
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    title: "Рай, Химаншу"
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    title: "இமான்சு ராய்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4091903"
    title: "Himanshu Rai"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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