# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prema-karanth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:54:13.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prema-karanth"
name: "Prema Karanth"
slug: "prema-karanth"
description: "Prema Karanth was an Indian theatre personality and the first-ever woman film-maker of Kannada cinema. She was the wife of B. V. Karanth and was known for the children's plays that she staged. She became the first ever woman director in Kannada cinema when she directed the film Phaniyamma (1983), which was based on a novel by M. K. Indira."
tagline: "Indian film director (1936-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/PremaKaranthImg.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: "1936-08-15"
deathDate: "2007-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.63
  momentum:             3.533721180780004
  historical:           6.209252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438912/"
    handle:    "nm0438912"
sources:
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    title: "ప్రేమా కారంత్"
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    title: "پريما كارانث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಪ್ರೇಮಾ ಕಾರಂತ"
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    title: "പ്രേമ കാരന്ത്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਪ੍ਰੇਮਾ ਕਾਰੰਤ"
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    title: "பிரேமா கரந்த்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1758870"
    title: "Prema Karanth"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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