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Sachit Patil

Indian actor, director, writer and theatre director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ21064131
Source-derived summary

Sachit Patil is an Indian actor, director, writer and theatre director. He is known for his work in Marathi cinema. He made his debut in the Bollywood film Kyon? (2003). He made his Marathi film debut with Avdhoot Gupte's Zenda (2010), which was a success at the box office. He made his directorial debut with the superhit Saade Maade Teen.

Career

Sachit began his film career with the 2003 Suspense thriller, Kyon?. He then appeared in Sab Kuch Hai Kuch Bhi Nai (2005) and Raasta Roko (2006).

He made his directorial debut in 2007 with the superhit Saade Maade Teen. He then made his Marathi film debut in 2010 with Avdhoot Gupte's Zenda (2010), which was a superhit at the box office.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sachit Patil” is indian actor, director, writer and theatre director. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sachit, Patil and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2010, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-03-01. For this dossier, Sachit, Patil and Indian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “indian actor, director, writer and theatre director” 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.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21064131. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2010, 2005 and 2006.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from Sachit Patil” 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.