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FILM DIRECTOR

Ismail Merchant

1936 - 2005

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Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman; 25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005) was an Indian film producer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ismail Merchant has received more than 909,498 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ismail Merchant is the 1,210th most popular film director (up from 1,218th in 2019), the 627th most popular biography from India (up from 634th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Film Director.

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  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ismail Merchant ranks 1,210 out of 1,581. Before him are Noriyuki Abe, Julie Taymor, Benjamin Glazer, Louis Daquin, Volodymyr Dakhno, and Damien Chazelle. After him are James Gray, Ruben Fleischer, Ardeshir Irani, Peter Hall, Mary Harron, and Naomi Kawase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ismail Merchant ranks 421. Before him are Dmitri Anosov, Gerald Guralnik, Ronnie Bucknum, Michel Jazy, Nicolas Alfonsi, and James Stacy. After him are Ihor Turchyn, Tamás Mendelényi, Jerónimo Saavedra, Michel Rousseau, Juris Upatnieks, and Eleonore Schwarz. Among people deceased in 2005, Ismail Merchant ranks 266. Before him are Sergio Cervato, Sergei Starostin, Raoul Bott, Robin Cook, Carl Amery, and John Ostrom. After him are Aulis Kallakorpi, Derek Bailey, David Lange, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Ihor Rybak, and Leonid Shamkovich.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ismail Merchant ranks 627 out of 1,493. Before him are George Fernandes (1930), Rahul Gandhi (1970), Indra Nooyi (1955), Anna Chandy (1905), The Great Gama (1878), and Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904). After him are Asha Parekh (1942), Ardeshir Irani (1886), K. J. Yesudas (1940), Veerappan (1952), Zeenat Aman (1951), and Guru Dutt (1925).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Ismail Merchant ranks 7. Before him are Satyajit Ray (1921), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), and Dara Singh (1928). After him are Ardeshir Irani (1886), Guru Dutt (1925), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), and Tapan Sinha (1924).

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Filmography

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