Sarika
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| Sarika | ||||||
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| Image:Sarika-parzania.jpg Sarika in Parzania | ||||||
| Born | Image:Flag of India.svg India | |||||
| Years active | 1967 - present | |||||
| Spouse(s) | Kamal Hassan | |||||
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Sarika is an acclaimed National Award winning Indian actress. She started her film career as a child actress and has also acted many roles 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. After this for a while she mainly starred with Sachin
She has had an abusive childhood. Her mother exploited her by not even sending her to school. She did many films with Sachin whom she had a brief affair. She has acted in many classic Indian films such as Kranti(1981)
Later on, she became a full-fledged Bollywood actress, acting in many movies, such as Geet Gaata Chal.She mainly starred with Sachin, . After her breakoff from Sachin, she married renowned Tamil actor Kamal Hassan. Together they have two daughters, one of them named Shruti Haasan, who has recently made her debut in movies as playback singer, for a Tamil movie called Kathiruppen.
In 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 the film Hey Ram (2000).
In her acting career, she was often cast as the vamp or 'westernized' girl in films from 1980's Bollywood, however she was very unhappy with this 'bad girl' type casting.
She has acted in more than 30 films, including films such as Subhash Ghai's Vidhaata (1982), but she gave up acting when she married Kamal Hassan during the peak of her career in the late 1980s. 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 due to poor publicity.
Sarika's performance in Parzania in which she plays the role of a Zoroastrian woman who loses her child during the 2002 riots of India. It fetched her an 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 TBA |
