# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vithalbhai-jhaveri
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:00:55.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vithalbhai-jhaveri"
name: "Vithalbhai Jhaveri"
slug: "vithalbhai-jhaveri"
description: "Vithalbhai Jhaveri (1916–1985) was an Indian independence activist, filmmaker, photographer, writer and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He documented Gandhi, since the Dandi March till his death in 1948, through numerous photographs which were displayed at many exhibitions and used in several literary works. Gandhi-A Photo Biography, a book by Peter Rühe, uses several of his photographs and he was a collaborator of Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, in the latter's biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma; Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His 330-minute documentary on Gandhi, Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869–1948, covers the Indian leader's life through 14 chapters. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1969, for his contributions to Literature and education."
tagline: "Indian independence activist, filmmaker, photographer, writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916"
deathDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3636363636363635
  historical:           6.202052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1172392/"
    handle:    "nm1172392"
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    title: "وٹھل بھائی جھاویری"
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    title: "ਵਿੱਠਲਭਾਈ ਝਾਵੇਰੀ"
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    title: "విఠల్ భాయ్ ఝవేరి"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Vithalbhai Jhaveri"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump