# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pandari-bai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:09:08.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pandari-bai"
name: "Pandari Bai"
slug: "pandari-bai"
description: "Pandari Bai was an Indian actress who worked in South Indian cinema, mostly in Kannada cinema during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She is considered Kannada cinema's first successful heroine. She has acted as both heroine and mother to actors Rajkumar, M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. She was the heroine in Rajkumar's debut movie Bedara Kannappa and also Sivaji's debut movie Parasakthi. She has acted in over 1,000 films in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. Bai was honoured by Kalaimamani from the Tamil Nadu government."
tagline: "Indian actress (1928–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Pandari_Bai.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-09-18"
deathDate: "2003-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.39263066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0659250"
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    title: "Pandari Bai"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump