# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shankar-panikkar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:03:55.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shankar-panikkar"
name: "Shankar Panikkar"
slug: "shankar-panikkar"
description: "Shankar Panicker, better known as Shankar, is an Indian film and television actor, film director and producer, known for his work in Malayalam and Tamil films. He has acted in nearly 200 films in lead and supporting roles in Malayalam and Tamil cinema in the 1980s and early 90s. Shankar’s Tamil debut Oru Thalai Ragam and Malayalam debut Manjil Virinja Pookkal enjoyed theatrical runs of 365 and 250 days respectively, catapulting him to overnight stardom. The immense success of these films established him as a bankable lead and earned him a huge fan base among audiences in the 1980s. Celebrated for his handsome, chocolate-boy looks, he became a youth sensation in the 1980s, which helped him quickly rise to the status of a superstar. From the late 1990s onward, he has also worked as a director and producer while continuing his acting career."
tagline: "Indian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shankar.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: "1960-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.41
  momentum:             6.213903262686941
  historical:           6.556852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788152/"
    handle:    "nm0788152"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "شنکر (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "شانكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "شانكار (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankar_(actor)"
    title: "Shankar (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankar_Panikkar"
    title: "Shankar Panikkar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BC_(%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BB)"
    title: "ശങ്കർ (നടൻ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_(%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "சங்கர் (நடிகர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q277729"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1133396"
    title: "Shankar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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