# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiralal-sen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:10:18.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiralal-sen"
name: "Hiralal Sen"
slug: "hiralal-sen"
description: "Hiralal Sen is generally considered one of India's first filmmakers. In 1903, he filmed the popular Alibaba and Forty Thieves, the first full-length Indian film. A noted photographer, he is also credited with creating India's first advertising films and quite possibly India's first political film. A fire in 1917 destroyed all of his films."
tagline: "Bengali film director (1866–1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HiralalSen_FlowerofPersia_DancingScene.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1866-08-02"
deathDate: "1917-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.084126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784006/"
    handle:    "nm0784006"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiralal_Sen"
    title: "Hiralal Sen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "হীৰালাল সেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "হীরালাল সেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiralal_Sen"
    title: "Hiralal Sen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiralal_Sen"
    title: "Hiralal Sen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3349682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2350063"
    title: "Hiralal Sen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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