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FILM DIRECTOR

M. Night Shyamalan

1970 - Today

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Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan ( SHAH-mə-lahn; born August 6, 1970) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. Night Shyamalan has received more than 20,795,884 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). M. Night Shyamalan is the 295th most popular film director (up from 493rd in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from India (up from 255th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Film Director.

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  • 21M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, M. Night Shyamalan ranks 295 out of 1,581. Before him are Ruggero Deodato, Yuen Woo-ping, Garry Marshall, Richard Brooks, Mike Nichols, and Béla Tarr. After him are Leos Carax, Carol Reed, Ermanno Olmi, Tsui Hark, Henry King, and John Landis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, M. Night Shyamalan ranks 27. Before him are Beck, Lee Byung-hun, Halit Ergenç, Fred Durst, Simon Pegg, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. After him are Paul Ryan, Paolo Sorrentino, Dominic Purcell, John Frusciante, Alan Shearer, and Tonya Harding.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. Night Shyamalan ranks 182 out of 1,493. Before him are Tarabai (1675), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Andal (800), Guru Arjan (1563), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Deepak Chopra (1946). After him are Abdul Karim (1863), Salim Ali (1896), Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Girish Karnad (1938), Motilal Nehru (1861), and Narayana Guru (1855).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, M. Night Shyamalan ranks 2. Before him are Satyajit Ray (1921). After him are Michael Radford (1946), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), Dara Singh (1928), Ismail Merchant (1936), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Guru Dutt (1925), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914).

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