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Guddi Gudda

1956 film directed by Wali Sahib

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ116178580 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guddi Gudda was a 1956 Pakistani Punjabi-language film directed by Wali Sahib.

Cast

Musarrat Nazir

Sudhir

Asha Posley

Agha Talish

M. Ajmal

Zubaida Khanum

Ghulam Mohammad

Music

The film's music was by Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, popularly known as Baba G.A. Chisti, song lyrics were written by Wali Sahib. Playback singers for the film were Munawar Sultana, Zubaida Khanum and Abdul Shakoor Bedil.

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The public source identifies “Guddi Gudda” as 1956 film directed by Wali Sahib. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Guddi, Gudda and film.

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—1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Guddi, Gudda and film providing the first useful test.
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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 Dec 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q116178580. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guddi Gudda” 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.