# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-balachandran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:03:51.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-balachandran"
name: "P. Balachandran"
slug: "p-balachandran"
description: "Padmanabhan Balachandran Nair was an Indian writer, playwright, scenarist, director, and actor. He was known for his work in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema."
tagline: "Indian actor and director (1952-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P._Balachandran.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-02-02"
deathDate: "2021-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.486731602561644
  historical:           7.320630666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1548005"
sources:
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    title: "پی بالاچندرن"
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    title: "পি. বালচন্দ্রন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "P. Balachandran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Balachandran"
    title: "P. Balachandran"
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    title: "പി. ബാലചന്ദ്രൻ"
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    title: "П. Балачандран"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "P Balachandran"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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