Talk:Sardar Malik

This article was nominated for deletion on 21 July 2018. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

The PTI obituary distributed at Sardar Malik's death and reprinted by several newspapers (eg) said that Malik was the "recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award". However this is unlikely because:

he is not listed on the awards official website (archived copy);
no contemporary news reports could be found saying that he had been conferred the award that year
The Hindu obit, which seems to be independently written or at least fact-checked, does not mention the award
his son Anu Malik in an interview portrays Sardar Malik as a struggling artist, and does not mention the award

For those reasons, we should not include mention of the award in the article unless we find indisputable evidence that he had actually received it. Abecedare (talk) 17:58, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]