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Sarwat Gilani

Pakistani actor and model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ15983201 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sarwat Gilani (Urdu: ثروت گیلانی; born 22 December 1982) is a Pakistani model, and film, television and voice actress.

Early life

Sarwat Gilani was born on 22 December 1982. Sarwat belongs to a Syed Gilani family through her father while her maternal grandfather Ghulam Moinuddin Khanji was Nawab of Manavadar and had a Babai Pashtun ancestry.

Film career

Gilani made her movie debut in Jawani Phir Nahi Aani where she played a pregnant Pashtun woman opposite Vasay Chaudhary. She made her stage directorial debut with Kiski Topi Kiskay Sar. She also starred in Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2, where she reprised her role as Gul opposite Vasay Chaudhry.

Personal life

She married a cosmetology surgeon and actor Fahad Mirza in August 2014. Gilani gave birth to a son, Rohan Mirza, in 2015. In June 2017, she became the mother of another son, Araiz Muhammad Mirza. She is the great-niece of Parveen Babi, who was a popular model and Bollywood actress in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sarwat Gilani” as pakistani actor and model. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2014, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-09-09. The account is most persuasive where Sarwat, Gilani and Pakistani can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as pakistani actor and model. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15983201. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarwat Gilani” 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.