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, (born 5 December 1960) is an Indian actress. Apart from acting, she also served as costume designer, sound designer & associate director for Kuruthipunal under Raaj Kamal Films International.

Early life

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

Career

Sarika started her film career as a child actor at the age of 5,^[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 in the 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 her 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 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), 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

Awards

• National Film Award for Best Actress
• National Film Award for Best Costume Design
• BIG Star Most Entertaining Actor in a Social Role - Female

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sarika.

• Sarika on IMDb