# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kumar-shahani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:42.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kumar-shahani"
name: "Kumar Shahani"
slug: "kumar-shahani"
description: "Kumar Shahani was an Indian film director and screenwriter, best known for his parallel cinema films Maya Darpan (1972), Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990). His films won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film in 1972, 1990 and 1991. Due to his dedication to formalism, and with the reputation of his first feature—Maya Darpan being considered among Indian cinema's first formalist films—critics and film enthusiasts often associated him with filmmakers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky and Jacques Rivette. He was also known as a teacher at his alma mater, the Film and Television Institute of India, and as a theorist of cinema. His book of 51 essays Kumar Shahani: The Shock of Desire and Other Essays, was edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and published by Tulika Books in 2015."
tagline: "Indian film 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: "1940-12-07"
deathDate: "2024-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.45
  momentum:             4.390243902439023
  historical:           9.01908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787511/"
    handle:    "nm0787511"
sources:
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    title: "کمار شاہانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كومار شاهانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کومار ساهانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_Shahani"
    title: "Kumar Shahani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "कुमार साहनी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kumar Shahani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਕੁਮਾਰ ਸ਼ਾਹਨੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шахани, Кумар"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1296630"
    title: "Kumar Shahani"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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