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Deepak Balraj Vij

Indian film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5250485 ↗
Source-derived summary

Deepak Balraj Vij is an Indian film director, who works predominantly in Hindi films. He has directed films such as Mumbai Godfather, Malik Ek, and Aaya Toofan.

Personal life

He is married to Marathi dancer and actress Kishori Shahane.

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“Deepak Balraj Vij” enters the record as indian film director. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deepak, Balraj and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 39-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deepak, Balraj and Indian.
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“Deepak Balraj Vij” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deepak, Balraj and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5250485. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deepak Balraj Vij” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.