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Sardar Saab

2017 film directed by Amit Prasher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ28127596 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sardar Saab is a 2017 Indian Punjabi-language action film directed by Amit Prasher and written by Daljeet Kalsi. It stars Jackie Shroff, Guggu Gill, Daljeet Kalsi, Neetu Singh, Sudesh Berry, Shivendra Mahal, Karamjit Anmol, Sardar Sohi & Yaad Grewal in the lead roles. A remake of the 2013 Tamil film Thalaivaa, the film was released worldwide on 6 January 2017.

Cast

Jackie Shroff as Sardar Sahib

Guggu Gill

Daljeet Kalsi

Neetu Singh

Sudesh Berry

Shivendra Mahal

Karamjit Anmol

Sardar Sohi

Yaad Grewal

Saddam Dualle

Manjeet Singh Aulakh

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of Super used was by Millind Gaba, Kaptan Laadi & RDK while the lyrics were written by Millind Gaba & Noddy Singh.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sardar Saab” is 2017 film directed by Amit Prasher. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sardar, Saab and film, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2017, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sardar, Saab and film is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “2017 film directed by Amit Prasher” 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.

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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 Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28127596. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sardar Saab” 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.