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  "ar": "فاطمة سنا شيخ",
  "en": "Fatima Sana Shaikh",
  "ur": "فاطمہ ثنا شیخ"
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  "ar": "ممثلة هندية ⁦(وُلدت سنة 1992)⁩ في حيدر آباد، بدأت طفلةً في «تشاتشي 420» (1997) وذاع صيتها بدور المصارعة غيتا فوغات في «دانغال» (2016)، أعلى الأفلام الهندية إيراداً، ثم تألقت في «لودو» (2020) وجسّدت أنديرا غاندي في «سام بهادور» (2023).",
  "en": "Indian actress (born 1992) at Hyderabad who began as a child artist in Chachi 420 (1997) and rose to fame as the wrestler Geeta Phogat in Dangal (2016), the highest-grossing Indian film; she later starred in Ludo (2020) and portrayed Indira Gandhi in Sam Bahadur (2023).",
  "ur": "بھارتی اداکارہ ⁦(پیدائش 1992)⁩ جو حیدر آباد میں پیدا ہوئیں، بچپن میں «چاچی 420» (1997) سے آغاز کیا اور «دنگل» (2016) میں پہلوان گیتا پھوگٹ کا کردار ادا کر کے شہرت پائی؛ بعد میں «لڈو» (2020) میں کام کیا اور «سام بہادر» (2023) میں اندرا گاندھی کا کردار نبھایا۔"
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    "value": "atheist-or-sceptic",
    "basis": "self-identified",
    "note": "Settled on her own repeated public self-description, carried by two independent outlets. In The Quint's interview of 27 October 2020 she says: 'I am an atheist. I have a mother who is Muslim, I have a father who is Hindu. My brother and myself, we are atheist. We do not follow any religion, we do not follow any god.' The Siasat Daily of 29 October 2020 headlined her words: 'I am an atheist, I believe in karma.' Her parents' faiths, which she names only as the background she was raised between, were not counted; Wikidata's Islam value is superseded by her own words.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia biographies of Fatima Sana Shaikh, the Wikidata item Q16202179, The Quint's video interview of 27 October 2020 and The Siasat Daily article of 29 October 2020; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties, the Quint quotation is verified verbatim as carried in the English biography's citation, and the Siasat headline quotation likewise (its site was not directly retrievable). Identity: the queue line's bearer is the Hyderabad-born actress (born 1992) of Dangal — not any of the many earlier Fatimas holding records. Existence checks by name fragments (fatima, sana, shaikh) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record for her. The queue's year (1992, living) is confirmed to the day; the Urdu article's Mumbai birthplace is preserved as a variant in the born note. Relations written: none — Hyderabad and Mumbai have no place entities. Living-person care: only well-sourced public facts are recorded, and her faith entry rests on her own published words.",
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