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Safed Jhooth

1977 Indian film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Safed Jhooth is a 1977 Bollywood comedy drama film, starring Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Mithu Mukherjee in lead roles and directed by Basu Chatterjee. The movie is a remake of the 1975 Bengali film Chhutir Phandey.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Safed Jhooth” as 1977 Indian film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Safed, Jhooth and Indian.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Safed, Jhooth and Indian providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Safed Jhooth”, the useful work is to connect “1977 Indian film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Mar 3, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 1975.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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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  2. Expand the search: follow Safed Jhooth primary sources, Safed Jhooth archive and Safed research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Safed Jhooth” 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.