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Mano Ya Na Mano (2006 TV series)

2006 Indian reality television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6751083 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mano Ya Na Mano (transl. Believe It Or Not) is an Indian TV show inspired by true incidents that took place in various places. It was produced by Siddharth Kak and aired on STAR One in India. The 1st season was hosted by Irrfan Khan in 2006, while Mishal Raheja hosted Season 2 in 2010.

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The public source identifies “Mano Ya Na Mano (2006 TV series)” as 2006 Indian reality television program. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mano, series and Indian.

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—2006, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mano, series and Indian providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6751083. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mano Ya Na Mano (2006 TV series)” 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.