# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaali
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:50:44.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaali"
name: "Vaali"
slug: "vaali"
description: "Thirupparaithurai Srinivasan Rangarajan, professionally credited by his pseudonym Vaali, was an Indian poet who has the record for writing the most songs in Tamil cinema. He is also recognised for a five-decade-long association in the Tamil film industry and has written more than 15,000 songs. He acted in a number of films, including Sathya, Hey Ram, Paarthale Paravasam and Poikkal Kudhirai. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2007."
tagline: "Indian poet, lyricist, writer and actor (1931-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TH-VAALI_1467654f.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1931-10-31"
deathDate: "2013-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.77
  momentum:             3.814821374409248
  historical:           11.44929466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1559999"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3512246"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump