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  "ar": "عرفان خان",
  "en": "Irrfan Khan",
  "ur": "عرفان خان"
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  "ar": "ممثل هندي (1967–2020) وُلد في تونك باسم صاحب زاده عرفان علي خان، تدرّب في المدرسة الوطنية للدراما (1984)، وبرز عالمياً بأعمال مثل «المحارب» (2001) و«مليونير العشوائيات» و«حياة باي» و«صندوق الغداء»، ونال بادما شري (2011)، وتوفي في مومباي سنة 2020.",
  "en": "Indian actor (1967–2020), born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan at Tonk and trained at the National School of Drama (1984), who broke through internationally with The Warrior (2001) and starred in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and The Lunchbox; he received the Padma Shri in 2011 and died at Mumbai in 2020.",
  "ur": "بھارتی اداکار (1967–2020) جو ٹونک میں صاحب زادے عرفان علی خان کے نام سے پیدا ہوئے، نیشنل اسکول آف ڈراما (1984) سے تربیت پائی، «دی واریر» (2001) سے عالمی شہرت ملی اور «سلم ڈاگ ملینئر»، «لائف آف پائی» اور «دی لنچ باکس» میں کام کیا؛ پدم شری (2011) ملا اور 2020 میں ممبئی میں انتقال ہوا۔"
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  "latest": 2020.328206602431
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   "note": "Born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan on 7 January 1967 at Tonk in Rajasthan, into a Pashtun family: the English article and Wikidata give the day and the town; the Urdu article gives Jaipur as the birthplace, preserved here. The Hijri year 1386 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "note": "No source names a school for him, and he left no profession of unbelief. What is documented is an insider's criticism of ritual practice: during the promotion of Madaari at Jaipur in July 2016 he questioned the meaning of Qurbani, said that rather than fasting during Ramzan people should self-introspect, and that Muslims had made a mockery of Muharram; days later he argued on television that he needed no mediators between himself and God. Remarks about ritual practice never count as a faith settlement in this lane, and the clerics who denounced the remarks were policing practice, not recording his belief. His birth into a Muslim Pashtun family of Tonk is background. Wikidata gives only Islam.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia biographies of Irrfan Khan, the Wikidata item Q360927, the Bollywood Hungama feature of 27 July 2016 and the NowRunning report of 16 July 2016, all read in full; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, and the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer is the Tonk-born actor born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan (1967–2020) — not any other Irfan or Khan holding a record. Existence checks by name fragments (irrfan, irfan) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record for him. The queue's years (1967–2020) are confirmed to the day; the Urdu article's Jaipur birthplace is preserved in the birth note against the English article's Tonk. Relations written: none — Tonk, Jaipur and Mumbai have no place entities.",
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