# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shyamalal-babu-rai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:25.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shyamalal-babu-rai"
name: "Shyamalal Babu Rai"
slug: "shyamalal-babu-rai"
description: "Shyamalal Babu Rai, known professionally as Indeevar, was one of the leading Hindi film lyricists from the 1960s to the mid-1990s."
tagline: "Indian lyricist (1924–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Indeevar.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-01-01"
deathDate: "1997-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             1.522707034728406
  historical:           7.626501333333333
  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/nm0408526/"
    handle:    "nm0408526"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/707712"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "اينديڤار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "ইন্দিবর"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeevar"
    title: "Indeevar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%87%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A6%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%B0"
    title: "ઇન્દીવર"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "इन्दीवर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "इंदीवर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%87%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0_%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0"
    title: "ਇੰਦੀਵਰ ਗੀਤਕਾਰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "اندیور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7626dfe5-2d0b-4a18-a39c-7b4fc3d4a0b4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2723276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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