# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pran
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:08.540Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/pran"
name: "Pran"
slug: "pran"
description: "He made villainy so convincing that Indian parents stopped naming their children Pran. For three decades, Hindi cinema's most electric screen menace — the man who defined what evil looked like before anyone else tried."
tagline: "Indian actor (1920–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pran_90th_bday.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-02-12"
deathDate: "2013-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.008238201718253502
  historical:           24.212288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "20th Century"
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    handle:    "nm0695199"
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    url:       "http://www.pransikand.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pran Krishan Sikand started as a leading man in the early 1940s, but the shift to negative roles in 1942 unlocked something fiercer. By the late 1940s through the 1970s, his villains became the first true personification of evil on Indian screens — portrayals so intense that his given name fell out of use among newborns. He worked steadily across more than 362 films, anchoring hits like Madhumati (1958), Zanjeer (1973), and Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), winning three Filmfare Awards for supporting work and easing into character roles from the late 1960s onward. The honours piled up late: Padma Bhushan in 2001, "Villain of the Millennium" in 2000, a spot on CNN's top 25 Asian actors ever, and in 2013 — months before his death at 93 after a long illness — the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Indian cinema's highest recognition.