# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pamela-rooks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:50:39.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pamela-rooks"
name: "Pamela Rooks"
slug: "pamela-rooks"
description: "Pamela Rooks was an Indian film director and screenwriter, most known for the film, Train to Pakistan (1998) set in Partition of India and based on Khushwant Singh's novel; it was screened at several international film festivals. Apart from that accomplishment she also made award-winning films like, Miss Beatty's Children (1992) and Dance Like a Man (2004) and several documentaries."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/10lOobz0cbqrCyNmR2ONMngp1YU.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-02-28"
deathDate: "2010-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.553097333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740274/"
    handle:    "nm0740274"
sources:
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    title: "پامیلا روکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پاميلا روكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "পামেলা ৰুক্‌ছ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "পামেলা রুকস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pamela Rooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਪਾਮੇਲਾ ਰੂਕਸ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%AF%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%9F_%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%A5"
    title: "ᱯᱟᱢᱮᱞᱟ ᱨᱩᱠᱥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "பமீலா ரூக்ஸ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "పమేలా రూక్స్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15434595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1199573"
    title: "Pamela Rooks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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