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Kanika (film)

2017 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ30599774 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kanika (Marathi : "कनिका") is an Indian revenge/horror film directed by Pushkar Manohar, Featuring Sharad Ponkshe in the lead role. The film was released on 31 March 2017.

Cast

Sharad Ponkshe

Chaitrali Gupte

Kamlakar Saatpute

Aananda Karekar

Falguni Rajni

Vandana Marathe

Nilesh Behere

References

External links

"The Ring gets a Marathi cousin - Times of India". The Times of India. TNN. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

"थरारक 'कनिका' लवकरच प्रेक्षकांच्या भेटीला". Loksatta (in Marathi). 15 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

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“Kanika (film)” enters the record as 2017 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kanika and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-03-31. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kanika and film.
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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 May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30599774. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kanika (film)” 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.