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Neha Sharad

Indian television actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ6987750 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neha Sharad is an Indian television actor and poet. She has worked in TV shows, including Tara, Waqt ki Raftar, Mamta, Gumraah, Yeh Duniya Ghazab Ki and Farmaan.

Life

Neha was born as Neha Joshi in Bhopal and grew up in Bombay. She is the daughter of writer Padma Shri awardee Sharad Joshi and theatre artist Irfana Siddiqui. She was involved in the 2009 TV series, Lapataganj, as a creative head, as the initial episodes were based on her father's works.

She has organized literary festivals, such as Sharadotsav, to commemorate her father's works.

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-06-21. The account is most persuasive where Neha, Sharad and Indian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian television actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6987750. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neha Sharad” 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.