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Pyar Pyar

1993 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ21646896
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Pyar Pyar is a 1993 Bollywood film starring Sujoy Mukherjee. The film also stars Rajeshwari Sachdev and Faraz Khan in supporting roles.

Plot

Widowed Rajkumar Chauhan is an honest and diligent Income Tax Officer, who does his job without being intimidated or accepting bribes. The role is played by Paresh Rawal.

Cast

Source

Sujoy Mukherjee as Vicky Chauhan

Kiran Kumar as Rajkumar Chauhan

Paresh Rawal as Dhansukhbhai Dharamshi

Rajeshwari Sachdev as Dolly Dharamshi

Beena as Dhansukhbhai's sister

Viju Khote as College Professor

Sulochana Latkar as Rajkumar's mother

Subbiraj as Mr. Agarwal

Mushtaq Khan as R.S. Gaitonde

Arif Khan as Sandy

Shiva as Monty

Yunus Parvez as Chief Minister

Guddi Maruti as Dolly's friend

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed Nadeem-Shravan and the lyrics were penned by Sameer, Hasrat Jaipuri and Anwar Saagar.

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The public source identifies “Pyar Pyar” as 1993 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pyar and film.

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—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pyar and film providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21646896. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from Pyar Pyar” 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.