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I Am Unused

2023 Indian Hindi-language television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ117842569
Source-derived summary

I Am Unused (Hindi: मैं अप्रयुक्त हूँ) is an Indian, Hindi-Language Web Series directed by Dushyant Pratap Singh for MX Player. The series stars Mushtaq Khan and Rajkumar Kanojia in key roles alongside Aasma Sayed.

Synopsis

Maya, a young woman betrayed by her friend Rohan, discovers she has HIV. Determined to seek revenge, Maya plots against Rohan and others who wronged her. Through her journey, she learns about resilience, forgiveness, and empowerment, inspiring others with her unwavering strength.

Cast

Mushtaq Khan

Rajkumar Kanojia

Aasma Sayed

Deepika Charak

Abhinay Soni

Production

The web-series was mostly shot in Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “I Am Unused” as 2023 Indian Hindi-language television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 102-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Unused, Indian and Hindi-language can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2023 Indian Hindi-language television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q117842569. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from I Am Unused” 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.