# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/homi-wadia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:42:27.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/homi-wadia"
name: "Homi Wadia"
slug: "homi-wadia"
description: "Homi Wadia was an Indian film director and producer in Bollywood. He was the co-founder of Wadia Movietone productions, established in 1933 and later after the closure of Wadiatone, he founded Basant Pictures in 1942. In a career spanning five decades, he directed over 40 films, including Hunterwali (1935), Miss Frontier Mail (1936), Diamond Queen (1940), Shri Ram Bhakta Hanuman (1948) and fantasy film Hatim Tai (1956). He was also a founding member of the Film & Television Producers Guild of India, established in 1954. Homi Wadia was married to actress and stunt woman Fearless Nadia. Homi was the younger brother of JBH Wadia, who was himself a movie director."
tagline: "Indian film director and producer (1911–2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Homi_Wadia.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: "1911-05-22"
deathDate: "2004-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.991473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905561/"
    handle:    "nm0905561"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "ہومی واڈیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "هومي واديا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "هومى واديا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_Wadia"
    title: "Homi Wadia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "هومی وادیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "होमी वाडिया"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5890760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1029054"
    title: "Homi Wadia"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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