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Mera Karam Mera Dharam

1987 film by Dulal Guha

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6817864 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mera Karam Mera Dharam (transl. My deed, my religion) is a 1987 Bollywood film, starring Dharmendra and Moushumi Chatterjee. The movie was shot in Murshidabad kathgola Palace, West Bengal. It was last film of Uttam Kumar.

Plot

Ajay, a businessman, provides funds to his brother Sarjuprasad to develop their hometown. When he learns that the money has been misappropriated by Sarjuprasad, he resolves to set things right.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mera Karam Mera Dharam” as 1987 film by Dulal Guha. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mera, Karam and Dharam.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mera, Karam and Dharam providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mera Karam Mera Dharam”, the useful work is to connect “1987 film by Dulal Guha” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6817864. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mera Karam Mera Dharam” 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.