# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mani-kaul
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:25:46.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mani-kaul"
name: "Mani Kaul"
slug: "mani-kaul"
description: "Mani Kaul was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Starting his career with Uski Roti (1969), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win four of them in all. He won the National Film Award for Best Direction in 1974 for Duvidha and later the National Film Award for his documentary film Siddheshwari in 1989."
tagline: "Indian film director of Hindi films (1944-2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Mani_Kaul.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: "1944-12-25"
deathDate: "2011-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.12
  momentum:             3.186212541239324
  historical:           15.01375733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002411/"
    handle:    "nm0002411"
sources:
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    title: "منی کول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mani Kaul"
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    title: "مانى كاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mani Kaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Kaul"
    title: "Mani Kaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Kaul"
    title: "Mani Kaul"
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    title: "مانی کاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mani Kaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "मणि कौल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "മണി കൗൾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "मणि कौल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਮਣੀ ਕੌਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "منی کول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mani Kaul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "మణి కౌల్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1087762"
    title: "Mani Kaul"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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