Sarika
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| Sarika | |||||||
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| Born | Moppet Suraj India |
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| Other name(s) | Baby Sarika, Sarika | ||||||
| Years active | 1967 - present | ||||||
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Sarika is an acclaimed National Award winning Indian actress. She started her film career as a child actress (baby Sooraj) as a boy in the 60's in Hindi movies. She appeared in many children's movies as well as B grade movies . She moved to better films with Rajshri Productions Geet Gaata Chal with Sachin, with whom she starred in many films and is known to have a brief affair as well. After her break off withSachin, she was involved with an actor/model Deepak Parasher. Later she married renowned Tamil/Hindi film actor Kamal Hassan. Together they have two daughters, one of them is Shruti Haasan, who has recently made her debut in movies as playback singer, for a Tamil movie called Kathiruppen.
She had an abusive childhood. Her mother exploited her by not sending her to school. She has acted in noted films such as Kranti Sharda Vidhata etc... As a major career shift, she became a noted costume designer for films, mostly for those made by her husband. In 2000, she received an award for her costume design for her husband's Hey Ram in (2000).
In her acting career, she was often cast as the vamp Vidhaata or 'westernized' girl in films from 1980's. She gave up her career after marriage with Kamal Hassan during the peak of her career. She has now made a comeback in Hindi films after her divorce with Kamal Hassan. She played Ipsita Roy Chakraverti in the film Sacred Evil 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 also stars as Sheetal Thadani in the movie Bheja Fry (2007).
[edit] External links
- Sarika at the Internet Movie Database
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| National Film Award | ||
| Preceded by Thaara for Hasina |
Best Actress for Parzania 2006 |
Succeeded by Priyamani for Paruthi Veeran |
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