Sarika

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Sarika

Sarika in 2010 at the premiere of Get Rid of My Wife
Born Sarika Thakur
(1960-12-05) 5 December 1960
Delhi, India
Ethnicity Marathi, Rajput
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Kamal Hassan (m. 1985–2004)
Children Shruti Haasan (born 1986)
Akshara Haasan (born 1991)

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

Early life

Sarika Thakur was born in New Delhi, India and she is a half Marathi and half Rajput.[1] Her father left the family when Sarika was very young. She became the bread winner of the family and was forced to work. She did not go to school. Her mother often abused her and forced her to work. At the peak of her career, her mother abused and thrashed her in public.[2]

Career

Sarika started her film career as a child actor at age 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 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 and is known to have had a brief affair as well. After their break-up, she got involved with actor and model Deepak Parashar, before she came into contact with Kamal Hassan, whom she worked with in Karishma.

In her acting career, she was often cast as a "westernized girl" in films from 1980's. She married Kamal Haasan in 1985 and gave birth to a baby girl Shruti Hassan in 1986. She gave up her career after her marriage to Kamal Hassan and moved to Chennai with him during the peak of her career. After separation, she made a comeback in 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). 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
2015 Darr Sabko Lagta Hai episode eleven in &TV Miss Consica

References

  1. ↑ "I get devastated at the idea of marriage: Shruti Haasan". Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Times of India". Times of India. p. 6. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sarika item song for vikram movie". Timesofap.com. Retrieved 10 October 2012.

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