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Hasina Dacait

2000 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ55613475
Source-derived summary

Hasina Dacait is a Hindi action drama movie of Bollywood directed and produced by Rajesh Mittal. This film was released on 2 February 2001 under the banner of R.N. Films.

Plot

This is a revenge story of an innocent girl who becomes a dreaded lady dacoit due to social injustice. Being rejected by her in-laws as well as her own brother, she tries to kill herself but is saved. Thereafter, she takes arms in hand and becomes a lady Robin Hood for the poor villagers.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hasina Dacait” as 2000 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hasina, Dacait and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hasina, Dacait and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hasina Dacait”, the useful work is to connect “2000 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55613475. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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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  2. Expand the search: follow Hasina Dacait primary sources, Hasina Dacait archive and Hasina 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.

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This entry incorporates text from Hasina Dacait” 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.