# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahesh-dattani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:30:30.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahesh-dattani"
name: "Mahesh Dattani"
slug: "mahesh-dattani"
description: "Mahesh Dattani is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara, Thirty Days in September  and The Big Fat City."
tagline: "Indian actor, dramatist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2Hzr6Pri2hYR6QXXZYjRLNLkBie.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: "1958-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.931034666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1338698/"
    handle:    "nm1338698"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.maheshdattani.com/"
sources:
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    title: "مہیش دتنانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماهيش داتانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahesh_Dattani"
    title: "Mahesh Dattani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80"
    title: "महेश दत्ताणी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF"
    title: "മഹെഷ് ദത്താനി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80"
    title: "ਮਹੇਸ਼ ਦੱਤਾਨੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%AF%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "مہیش دتانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B9%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B7%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF"
    title: "மஹேஷ் தத்தானி"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6733856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1776246"
    title: "Mahesh Dattani"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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