# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mani-shankar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:37:45.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mani-shankar"
name: "Mani Shankar"
slug: "mani-shankar"
description: "Mani Shankar is an Indian film director, screenwriter and editor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He directed works such as 16 December, one of the highest-grossing films of 2002, and Tango Charlie, which was screened in several International Film Festivals and was named a permanent part of the UN's \"anti-war\" movies. Over his long career, Mani Shankar has worked on many films, advertisements and political campaigns."
tagline: "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: "1957-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.58
  momentum:             6.88217984484274
  historical:           5.976317333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200832/"
    handle:    "nm1200832"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.musionentertainment.com/#videos"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "منی شنکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "مانى شانكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Shankar"
    title: "Mani Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "مانی شانکار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Shankar"
    title: "Mani Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "మణిశంకర్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6749411"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224495"
    title: "Mani Shankar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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