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Mirza – The Untold Story

2012 film by Baljit Singh Deo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6874927 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mirza: The Untold Story is a 2012 Indian Punjabi-language action romance film written and directed by Baljit Singh Deo. It stars Gippy Grewal and Mandy Takhar in the lead roles, with music rapper Honey Singh in his first commercial venture, as a dunce gangster. Produced by Inda Raikoti and Aman Khatkar, the movie had a historic opening across Punjab. The movie was released on 6 April 2012.

Plot

Mirza: The Untold Story is based on the legendary love story of Mirza and Sahiba.

Mirza and his Sahiba fall in love with each other at a very young age. The plot continues many years later when Mirza and Sahiba return to the same home town where they once grew up together. Jeet, Sahiba's oldest brother, is a major gang leader in the city; nonetheless, he still maintains his family's honour. Mirza decides to infiltrate Jeet's gang. The story takes a turn as Mirza meets Sahiba, and their love flourishes once again.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mirza – The Untold Story” is 2012 film by Baljit Singh Deo. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mirza, Untold and Story, 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—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-04-06. For this dossier, Mirza, Untold and Story is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2012 film by Baljit Singh Deo” 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.

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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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6874927. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mirza – The Untold Story” 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.