# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pan-nalin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:28.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pan-nalin"
name: "Pan Nalin"
slug: "pan-nalin"
description: "Nalin Kumar Pandya, popularly known as Pan Nalin, is an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing award-winning movies like Samsara (2001), Valley of Flowers (2006), Angry Indian Goddesses (2015) and the semi-autobiographical Chhello Show (2021). His debut feature Samsara (Miramax) was worldwide critical and commercial triumph and went on to win awards like Best First Feature Film at Durban International Film Festival, \"Grand Jury Prize – Special Mention\" at AFI Fest, Special Jury Award at Santa Barbara International Film Festival and \"Most Popular Feature Film\" at Melbourne International Film Festival in 2002. Since then Nalin has been actively making fiction and non-fiction movies which have been coproduced with countries like India, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USA. Nalin's movies have been distributed worldwide."
tagline: "Film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pan_Nalin_on_Set7.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"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             4.796216441786061
  historical:           8.779557333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659023/"
    handle:    "nm0659023"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://bearso.com/pannalin"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Налин, Пан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "پان نالين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Nalin"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Nalin"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Nalin"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پن نالین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Nalin"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Nalin"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Nalin"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2030506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7324"
    title: "Pan Nalin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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