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My Take
What earns my respect for Fatima Sana Shaikh is the long apprenticeship behind her breakthrough. A child performer in films like Chachi 420, she put in years before transforming herself into wrestler Geeta Phogat for Dangal, a role she committed to physically and completely. That the film became the highest-grossing Hindi movie of all time tells you how much weight she was carrying. I trust actors who will live a sports story in their own muscle rather than fake it, and knowing she persisted for so long before that moment of glory makes the achievement land even harder for me.
Overview
Fatima Sana Shaikh (born 11 January 1992) is an Indian actress, who works in Hindi films. Shaikh started her career as a child artist in such films as Chachi 420 (1997) and One 2 Ka 4 (2001). In 2016, she portrayed wrestler Geeta Phogat in the biopic Dangal, which went on to become the highest-grossing Hindi film of all time.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Fatima Sana Shaikh
- Name (Japanese)
- ファーティマー・サナー
- Reading
- ふぁーてぃまー・さなー
- Born
- January 11, 1992 (age 34)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Monkey
- Origin
- Hyderabad, Hyderabad district, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Mithibai College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.