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Guddi Maruti

Indian film and television actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ12423834 ↗
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Guddi Maruti is an Indian actress best known for her comedy roles on TV and in Bollywood movies.

Early life

Maruti was born to an actor-director father Marutirao Parab in Bandra, Mumbai. Her name is Tahira Parab and she was nicknamed Guddi by Manmohan Desai, which she uses as her the screen name.

Career

Maruti started her career at the age of 10 years as a child artist in the film Jaan Haazir Hain. After her father's death, she continued acting to support the family. Due to her physical appearance, she bagged comedy roles in films and kept on going with her career.

Maruti has acted in over 97 movies since the 1980s. Over the years, she acted in TV shows and is well known for her role as Bua in the TV show Doli Armano Ki. Her popular movies include Khiladi, Shola Aur Shabnam, Aashik Aawara, Dulhe Raja and Biwi No. 1.

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“Guddi Maruti” enters the record as indian film and television actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Guddi, Maruti 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 153-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-04-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Guddi, Maruti and Indian.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12423834. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guddi Maruti” 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.