# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-v-anand
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:32:37.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-v-anand"
name: "K. V. Anand"
slug: "k-v-anand"
description: "Karimanal Venkatesan Anand ISC was an Indian cinematographer, film director and photojournalist, worked mainly in the Tamil film industry. After a short period as a photojournalist, he became a cinematographer in the early 1990s, working on about fifteen films in the Southern and Hindi cinema industries. Anand won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his debut film as a cinematographer, Thenmavin Kombath. In 2005, Anand turned film director with the critically acclaimed Kana Kandaen. He was a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC)."
tagline: "Indian film director (1966-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KV_Anand_at_MovieBuff_First_Clap_Awards_Function_(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: "1966-10-30"
deathDate: "2021-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.109636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0433895/"
    handle:    "nm0433895"
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    title: "కె.వి.ఆనంద్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "K. V. Anand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._V._Anand"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C._%D9%88%DB%8C._%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "کی. وی. آناند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._V._Anand"
    title: "K. V. Anand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "കെ.വി. ആനന്ദ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "के.व्ही. आनंद"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "К. В. Ананд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110701"
    title: "K. V. Anand"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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