# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-shankar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:15.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-shankar"
name: "K. Shankar"
slug: "k-shankar"
description: "Kannan Shankar was an Indian film editor, screenwriter and director. He directed more than 80 films in South Indian languages including Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada as well as in Hindi."
tagline: "Indian film editor, screenwriter and director"
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: "1926-07-17"
deathDate: "2006-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.975561333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788158/"
    handle:    "nm0788158"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%92_%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "کے شنکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%89._%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "كى. شانكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Shankar"
    title: "K. Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Shankar"
    title: "K. Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Shankar"
    title: "K. Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87._%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "கே. சங்கர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1311440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5429002"
    title: "K. Shankar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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