# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/panchu-arunachalam
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:42:21.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/panchu-arunachalam"
name: "Panchu Arunachalam"
slug: "panchu-arunachalam"
description: "Panchanathan Arunachalam was an Indian writer, director, producer and lyricist who worked in the Tamil cinema. He was mentored by poet Kannadasan who was his uncle. He also worked as a lyricist in the Tamil cinema industry. He started producing films under his production banner named P. A. Arts. His son Subbu Panchu Arunachalam is an actor and dubbing artist in the Tamil film industry."
tagline: "Indian writer and producer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Panchu_Arunachalam.jpg/330px-Panchu_Arunachalam.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: "1941-06-18"
deathDate: "2016-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.21
  momentum:             9.522353840275125
  historical:           7.450590666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1180694/"
    handle:    "nm1180694"
sources:
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    title: "پانتشو اروناتشالام"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Panchu Arunachalam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Панчу Аруначалам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchu_Arunachalam"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump