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Kottayam Nazeer

Indian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6434318 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kottayam Nazeer is an Indian actor, impressionist, and an artist from Kerala. Kottayam Nazeer started his career as a stage artist . Recently he also started his career in painting. Nazeer is a recipient of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award (2010) and is the only recipient in the Mimicry category.

Family

Nazeer is married to Haseena. They have two sons, Mohammed Nihal and Mohammed Noufal.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kottayam Nazeer” as indian actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-01-29. The account is most persuasive where Kottayam, Nazeer and Indian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6434318. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kottayam Nazeer” 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.