Sarika

Sarika

Sarika in 2010 at the premiere of Get Rid of My Wife
Born Sarika Thakur
(1960-12-05) 5 December 1960
Delhi, India
Occupation Actress
Years active 1967 - Present
Spouse(s) Kamal Haasan (m. 1988–2004)
Children Shruti Haasan (born 1986)
Akshara Haasan (born 1991)

Sarika Thakur, better known as Sarika, is an Indian actress.

Early life

Sarika was born in New Delhi into a family of Marathi and Rajput descent. Her father left away the family when she was very young. From then, she became the head of the family and was forced to work. She did not attend the school.[1]

Career

Sarika started her film career as a child actor at the age of 4,[2] playing the role of a boy, Master Sooraj, during the 1960s in Bollywood. Her most notable and popular appearance as a child artist was in the year 1967 musical superhit Hamraaz where she was seen as the daughter of Vimi named baby/saarika. She appeared in many children's movies. Later She moved on to films with Rajshri Productions Geet Gaata Chal with Sachin, with whom she starred in many Hindi and Marathi films.

In her acting career, she was often cast as a "westernized girl" in films due to look Non-Indian looks. She gave birth to a baby girl Shruti Hassan in 1986. She gave up her acting career after her marriage to Kamal Haasan and moved to Chennai with him during the peak of her career. After separation, she made a comeback with Hindi films. She played Ipsita Ray Chakraverti in the film Sacred Evil – A True Story which failed at the box office.

In year 2000, she won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for the film Hey Ram. Her performance in Parzania in which she plays the role of a Zoroastrian woman who loses her child during the 2002 riots of India, fetched her the National Film Award for Best Actress.

She has starred as Sheetal Thadani in the movie Bheja Fry (2006), where she played wife of Rajat Kapoor. She also had a small but important role in Manorama Six Feet Under. Her latest movie is Shoebite which has been delayed for production where she stars opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

She made her television debut in Sony TV's Yudh which stars Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role.

Filmography

Television

Year Show Channel Role
2014Yudh (TV series)Sony Gauri Sekhar
2015 Darr Sabko Lagta Hai episode eleven in &TV Miss Consica

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan". Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Times of India". Times of India. p. 6. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
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