# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pa-ranjith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:52.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pa-ranjith"
name: "Pa Ranjith"
slug: "pa-ranjith"
description: "Pa. Ranjith is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with the 2012 romantic comedy Attakathi, before earning positive reviews for his second film, the political action-drama Madras (2014). He wrote and directed the action-drama films Kabali (2016) and Kaala (2018), both starring Rajinikanth. He is also the founder of Neelam, a socio-cultural organisation and film production house."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tamil_Director_Pa._Ranjith.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1982-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.85
  momentum:             0.9849374021909235
  historical:           7.870982666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3163794/"
    handle:    "nm3163794"
sources:
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    title: "帕·蘭基斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پا. رانچيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa._Ranjith"
    title: "Pa. Ranjith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7._%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "پا. رنجیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa._Ranjith"
    title: "Pa. Ranjith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE._%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "പാ. രഞ്ജിത്ത്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "பா. ரஞ்சித்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE._%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "పా. రంజిత్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18720201"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1114576"
    title: "Pa. Ranjith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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