Indian Cinema Collaboration Network
The Indian Cinema Collaboration Network is a curated dataset mapping recurring creative partnerships across four major Indian language industries. Each edge in the graph represents two or more films made together by a director-actor, director-composer, director-writer, or director-cinematographer pair. The network surfaces the long-running collaborations that define the look and sound of an industry — Mani Ratnam–AR Rahman, Bharathiraja–Ilayaraja, Lokesh Kanagaraj–Anirudh, Rajamouli–MM Keeravani, and dozens more.
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Methodology
Films are sourced from GudVibe's curated entity database. A pair becomes a node-edge when they share two or more film credits. Edges are weighted by film count and span (years of partnership).
Use cases
Researchers can use this dataset to study career trajectories, industry centrality, and cross-language collaboration patterns. The CSV/JSON distributions are released under CC BY 4.0.