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Patton Ki Bazi

1986 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ16252910 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patton Ki Bazi is a 1986 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Ram Govind for Balaji Films, starring Rajan Sippy, Khushboo, Swapna and Gulshan Grover.

Plot

Patton Ki Bazi is an action film. The plot includes Mahesh (Rajan Sippy) who comes to Mumbai and falls in love with Preet(Khushboo) who is Seth Oberoi's daughter. Mahesh is good at playing cards and soon he becomes the biggest gambler of the city.

Editorial summary

“Patton Ki Bazi” enters the record as 1986 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Patton, Bazi and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Patton, Bazi and film.
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Why this record matters

“Patton Ki Bazi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Patton, Bazi and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16252910. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Patton Ki Bazi” 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.