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Kaala Aadmi

1978 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6343316 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kaala Aadmi is a 1978 Bollywood film directed by Ramesh Lakhanpal.

Cast

Sunil Dutt as Birju

Saira Banu as Sheetal

Pran as Dharam Prakash

Ranjeet as Hari Prakash

Premnath as Guruji (Special Appearance)

Parikshat Sahni as Aslam

Naaz as Sayeeda

Sonia Sahni as Hari's Wife

Zaheera as Birju's Keep

Anwar Hussain as Ajit

Satyendra Kapoor as Mr. Gupta

Urmila Bhatt as Mrs.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kaala Aadmi” is 1978 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kaala, Aadmi and film, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. For this dossier, Kaala, Aadmi and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1978 film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6343316. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kaala Aadmi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kaala Aadmi primary sources, Kaala Aadmi archive and Kaala 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.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaala Aadmi” 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.