# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-p-muthuraman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:38:15.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-p-muthuraman"
name: "S. P. Muthuraman"
slug: "s-p-muthuraman"
description: "Subbiah Palaniappan Muthuraman, also referred to as SPM, is an Indian film director who works in the Tamil film industry. He has directed 72 films in Tamil. He was one of the most successful commercial directors in Tamil cinema. Initially he worked mainly with R. Muthuraman, Jaishankar, Sivaji Ganesan and went on to direct successful films with Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan."
tagline: "Indian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Director_SP_Muthuraman_at_Be_the_Change_2015_Calendar_Launch.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1935-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             19.25343811394892
  historical:           5.890041333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616114/"
    handle:    "nm0616114"
sources:
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    title: "ఎస్. పి. ముత్తురామన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اس. پى. موثورامان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "S. P. Muthuraman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "S・P・ムトゥラーマン"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584342"
    title: "S. P. Muthuraman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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