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Sitaram Panchal

Indian actor

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ34329045 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sitaram Panchal (1963 – 10 August 2017) was an Indian actor known for his roles in Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Peepli Live (2010), The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and Jolly LLB 2 (2017).

Death

He was suffering from kidney and lung cancer. Haryana Government gave ₹5 lakh in financial help to the actor. CINTAA have also put out a plea to gather help for Panchal.

Editorial summary

“Sitaram Panchal” enters the record as indian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sitaram, Panchal and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2017, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sitaram, Panchal and Indian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sitaram Panchal” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sitaram, Panchal and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q34329045. VIAF identifies the subject as 1429170101358212500003. The Library of Congress control number is no2023123522. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963, 2017, 2008 and 2010.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

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  • Building a first chronology
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Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Sitaram Panchal” 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.