# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saawan-kumar-tak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:41:17.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saawan-kumar-tak"
name: "Saawan Kumar Tak"
slug: "saawan-kumar-tak"
description: "Saawan Kumar Tak was an Indian film director, producer, and lyricist. He directed many Hindi films, including successful films like Saajan Bina Suhagan, Souten, Souten Ki Beti, Sanam Bewafa, Bewaffa Se Waffa. He is credited with giving break to actors such as Sanjeev Kumar and Mehmood Junior. His most famous directorial venture was Rajesh Khanna starrer Souten, which was the first Indian film to be shot in Mauritius."
tagline: "Indian film director, producer, and lyricist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sawan_Kumar_Tak_(cropped).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: "1936-08-09"
deathDate: "2022-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.013613333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2223387/"
    handle:    "nm2223387"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/127d51c4-1d29-4931-b6bc-e0f7d72db3b5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ساوان كومار تاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saawan_Kumar_Tak"
    title: "Saawan Kumar Tak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "सावन कुमार"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saawan_Kumar_Tak"
    title: "Saawan Kumar Tak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सावन कुमार टाक"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Так, Саван Кумар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saawan_Kumar_Tak"
    title: "Saawan Kumar Tak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AA%DA%A9"
    title: "ساون کمار تک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7395752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1032627"
    title: "Saawan Kumar Tak"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump