# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ravi-baswani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:14:39.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ravi-baswani"
name: "Ravi Baswani"
slug: "ravi-baswani"
description: "Ravi Baswani was an Indian film actor, best known for his role in Sai Paranjpe's Chashme Buddoor (1981) and Kundan Shah's cult comedy Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), for which he won Filmfare Best Comedian Award in 1984. He was noted for his comic timing and underplaying a character in the true sense of the word. In a career spanning 30 years he acted in some 30 films. He died in Haldwani, on his way to Delhi from Nainital, to where he had travelled to scout for locations for his upcoming debut directorial feature film."
tagline: "Indian actor (1946–2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/RaviBaswani.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-09-26"
deathDate: "2010-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.29
  momentum:             2.837362368961156
  historical:           5.684857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060629/"
    handle:    "nm0060629"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راڤى باسوانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Baswani"
    title: "Ravi Baswani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80"
    title: "रवि वासवानी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF_%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF"
    title: "ರವಿ ಬಾಸ್ವಾನಿ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%A4_%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%A3%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%A4"
    title: "ᱨᱚᱵᱤ ᱵᱟᱥᱣᱟᱱᱤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7296611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/230977"
    title: "Ravi Baswani"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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