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Duplicate Sholay

2002 film by Kanti Shah

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5316006 ↗
Source-derived summary

Duplicate Sholay is a 2002 spoof Hindi drama film that parodies the 1975 film Sholay. It was directed by Kanti Shah and released on 26 April 2002.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Duplicate Sholay” is 2002 film by Kanti Shah. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Duplicate, Sholay and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-01-01. For this dossier, Duplicate, Sholay and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2002 film by Kanti Shah” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5316006. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 1975.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Duplicate Sholay”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Duplicate Sholay primary sources, Duplicate Sholay archive and Duplicate research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Duplicate Sholay”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Duplicate Sholay” 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.