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Ranga Daku

1978 Pakistani Punjabi film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ20890761 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ranga Daku (Punjabi: رنگا ڈاکو) is 1978 Pakistani Punjabi-language biographical film directed by Arshad Mirza.

This film is based on a true story from the Raj days in British India.

Cast

Sultan Rahi – Ranga Daku (title role)

Aasia – (Love interest of Ranga)

Afzaal Ahmad – (Karnal) Sher Singh

Kiran – (Bhabi of Ranga)

Samina Peerzada

Saiqa – (sister of Ranga)

Adeeb – (farangi)

Irrum

Meena Daud

Ilyas Kashmiri – (Jageerdar)

Nanha

Ladla

Hairat Angez

Munir Zarif – (comedy actor)

Tracklist

Film music was composed by the musician Wajahat Attre. The lyrics were written by Hazin Qadri and Khawaja Pervez, and sung by Noor Jehan and Naheed Akhtar.

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The public source identifies “Ranga Daku” as 1978 Pakistani Punjabi film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ranga, Daku and Pakistani.

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—1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ranga, Daku and Pakistani 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 May 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20890761. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ranga Daku” 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.