# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/visu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:05:20.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/visu"
name: "Visu"
slug: "visu"
description: "Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan, best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian screenwriter, film director, stage, film and television actor and talk-show host known for his work in Tamil theatre and film. Visu initially worked as an assistant to director K. Balachander until becoming a director himself. He later began acting, with his first notable film being Kudumbam Oru Kadambam (1981), directed by S. P. Muthuraman."
tagline: "Indian writer (1945–2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pWFy7y51VNPKmdgfJWsZSjr0vEi.jpg"
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: "1945-07-01"
deathDate: "2020-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.926149333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1127850/"
    handle:    "nm1127850"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%88_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ویزو (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "ڤيسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visu"
    title: "Visu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%83_(%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Вису (кинематографист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81"
    title: "விசு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%81_(%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81)"
    title: "విసు (దర్శకుడు)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7936508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584474"
    title: "Visu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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