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Zaira Wasim

People Living

زائرة وسيم

Indian former actress (born 2000) at Srinagar who rose to fame as the young Geeta Phogat in Dangal (2016), winning a National Film Award, starred in Secret Superstar (2017), and in 2019 publicly left acting, stating in her own words that it conflicted with her religion and faith.

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At a glance

Roles
actress
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

1900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Rahman Badawi · Abd al-Rahman Siwar al-Dhahab · Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Place in the story

    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years2000

    Sources

    • Zaira Wasim — English Wikipedia
    • Zaira Wasim — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Zaira Wasim — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Zaira Wasim — Wikidata
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Zaira Wasim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zaira-wasim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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