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Mahavir Shah

Character actor: crooked officials, businessmen and policemen

Mahavir Shah was a prolific character actor of the 1970s to the 1990s who usually played crooked officials, businessmen and policemen. He is the driver in Ab Kya Hoga (1977) and appears in Azaad Desh Ke Gulam (1990). He died in Chicago on 31 August 2000. His birth year is unsettled: Wikidata gives 1948 and IMDb 1960, and no independent source has been found to settle it.

What we found here Sources disagree on when Mahavir Shah was born, and none of them is independent.

How we know

Wikidata gives 21 April 1948. Wikipedia and IMDb give 5 April 1960, and every page found with that date is Wikipedia, a copy of it, or IMDb, which is edited by its users. No newspaper obituary was found. The record claims no birth year. His death in Chicago on 31 August 2000 is consistent across the sources, and a driver in Ab Kya Hoga (1977) born in 1960 would have been seventeen.

Films

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Ab Kya Hoga (1977)

Cast · 1977

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Azaad Desh Ke Gulam (1990)

Cast · 1990