# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-padmarajan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:24.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-padmarajan"
name: "P. Padmarajan"
slug: "p-padmarajan"
description: "Padmarajan Padmanabhan Pillai, better known as P. Padmarajan was an Indian film maker, screenwriter and author who was known for his works in Malayalam literature and Malayalam cinema. Considered as one of the greatest directors and screenwriters of all time, he founded a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Bharathan and K. G. George, in the 1980s."
tagline: "Indian film director and writer (1946–1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/Padmarajan.jpg/330px-Padmarajan.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: "1946-05-23"
deathDate: "1991-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.941665333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655802/"
    handle:    "nm0655802"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.padmarajan.com/"
sources:
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    title: "పద్మరాజన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پى. پادماراچان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmarajan"
    title: "Padmarajan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmarajan"
    title: "Padmarajan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "पद्मराजन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BF._%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%BB"
    title: "പി. പത്മരാജൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3595146"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1104831"
    title: "P. Padmarajan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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