Benaf Dadachandji

Benaf Dadachanji

Born	(1987-08-17) 17 August 1987 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Religion	Zoroastrian

Benaf Dadachanji (born 17 August 1987) is an Indian actress, working in Hindi television. She received three Star Parivaar Awards for portraying the role of Radhika "Baby" Thakkar, a physically handicapped young girl, in the popular TV series Baa Bahoo Aur Baby. Born in Mumbai, she did her schooling from St. Anne's High School^[1] and is a graduate of Mithibai College in Mumbai.

Benaf started her career with various advertisements.^[2] In 1995, she appeared in Santosh Sivan directed Hindi film Halo as Shasha and then in the 1998 film China Gate as Lali. For her performance in Halo, she received Special Jury Award at the 43rd National Film Awards.^[3] The jury presented the certificate award for "her charming and natural performance".^[1]^[2] She later started her career in Hindi television industry playing various roles in soaps like Baa Bahu aur Baby, Jhansi Ki Rani and Choti Bahu 2. Since May 2012 she appears as Paulomi in Byah Hamari Bahu Ka.^[4]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Halo	Shasha	Film
1997	Nazarana	Ishita	TV movie
1998	China Gate	Lali	Film
2004–2005	Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag	Lopa	TV serial Star Plus
2005–2010	Baa Bahoo Aur Baby	Radhika "Baby" Thakkar	TV serial Star Plus
2009–2011	Jhansi Ki Rani	Ganga	TV serial Zee TV
2011–2012	Choti Bahu 2	Barkha	TV serial Zee TV
2012	Byaah Hamari Bahoo Ka	Paulomi	TV serial Sony TV
2014	Bobby Jasoos	Noor	Film
2015-2016	Sumit Sambhal Lega	Simran	TV serial Star Plus

Awards

Dadachanji has won following awards:

1995 : International Children Film Festival, Hyderabad in Best Child Artist category^[1]^[2]
1996 : 43rd National Film Awards in Special Jury Award category for Halo
1997 : Children's Filmfest, New York in Best Artist category for Halo^[5]

References

1 2 3 "43rd National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
1 2 3 "43rd National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
↑ Narayanan, Ramya; Shah, Sonali (12 Dec 2008). "Children no more". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
↑ "Gaurav Khanna in Byaah Hamari Bahoo Ka". Times of India. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
↑ "Halo". Children's Film Society, India. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.

External links

Benaf Dadachandji at the Internet Movie Database

National Film Award—Special Jury Award (Feature Film)

1978–1980

No Award (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

Special Mention	Mrinal Sen and Muzaffar Ali (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

1981–2000

Satyajit Ray (1981) No Award (1982) Mankada Ravi Varma (1983) T. S. Ranga (1984) Sudha Chandran (1985) John Abraham (1986) M. B. Sreenivasan (1987) Ashok Ahuja (1988) Amitabh Chakraborty (1989) Pankaj Kapur, Sunny Deol and Jayabharathi (1990) Soumitra Chatterjee (1991) Sivaji Ganesan and Ketan Mehta (1992) Shashi Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (1993) Radhu Karmakar and Shaji N. Karun (1994) Shyam Benegal (1995) Amol Palekar and Kirron Kher (1996) Jaimala (1997) Drishyakavya and Ashoke Viswanathan (1998) Kalabhavan Mani (1999) Soumitra Chatterjee (2000)

Special Mention	No Award (1981) No Award (1982) Kumar Shahani (1983) No Award (1984) No Award (1985) Sandip Ray (1986) No Award (1987) Aamir Khan (1988) Anupam Kher and Mohanlal (1989) Anoubham Kiranmala (1990) Mamata Shankar and Raveendran (1991) Sibaprasad Sen (1992) Tahir Hussain, Mahesh Bhatt, Jugal Debata and Susant Misra (1993) Mahesh Mahadevan, Bishnu Kharghoria and S. Kumar (1994) Uttara Baokar, Rohini and Benaf Dadachandji (1995) Dolon Roy and Bhagirathee (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna and Jomol (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao, Prakash Raj and Manju Warrier (1998) Mohan Joshi, Manju Borah and Kavitha Lankesh (1999) No Award (2000)

2001–present

Janaki Vishwanathan (2001) Prakash Raj (2002) Manoj Bajpai, Roopkatha and Goutam Halder (2003) J. Phillip (2004) Anupam Kher (2005) Vishal Bhardwaj (2006) Anil Kapoor and Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) NFDC and K. M. Madhusudhanan (2008) A. Sreekar Prasad (2009) Bindiya Khanolkar, Sachin Khanolkar and Anant Mahadevan (2010) Anjan Dutt (2011) Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2012) Viva In En, Mahesh Limaye, Future East Film Pvt Ltd and Ashim Ahluwalia (2013)

Special Mention	Dilip Doley and Narayan Seal (2001) Jyothirmayi (2002) H. G. Dattatreya and Nedumudi Venu (2003) Gurdas Maan and Pradeep Nair (2004) No Award (2005) Thilakan and Prosenjit Chatterjee (2006) No Award (2007) No Award (2008) Padmapriya Janakiraman (2009) K. Shivaram Karanth and V. I. S. Jayabalan (2010) Mallika and Sherrey (2011) Lal, H. G. Dattatreya, Bishnu Kharghoria, Parineeti Chopra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Hansraj Jagtap and Thilakan (2012) Gauri Gadgil, Sanjana Rai and Anjali Patil (2013) Bhaurao Karhade, Musthafa, Palomi Ghosh, Parth Bhalerao (2014)

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