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Kaafiron Ki Namaaz

2016 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ24514627 ↗
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Kaafiron Ki Namaaz (transl. Prayer of non-believers) is a 2016 Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma. The film won four awards including the Best Feature Film at the third Ladakh International Film Festival.

Unable to get censor clearance for a theatrical release, the film was released on YouTube on 7 April 2016.

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The public source identifies “Kaafiron Ki Namaaz” as 2016 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kaafiron, Namaaz and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-04-07. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kaafiron, Namaaz and film providing the first useful test.
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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 May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24514627. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaafiron Ki Namaaz” 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.