Sarika
Name: Sarika (Sarika Thakur)
Birthdate: 3rd June, 1962
Zodiac: Gemini
Marital Status: Sarika tied the knot with Kamal Hassan, the renowned Tamil actor. They are the parents of two daughters Akshara Hassan and Shruti Hassan. In the year 2002, both Sarika and Kamal got separated following a divorce.
Awards:
1) In 2000, Sarika received the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for the Kamal Hassan directed ‘Hey Ram’.
2) She had even won the National Film Award in the Best Actress category for her spectacular performance in ‘Parzania’, directed by Rahul Dholakia. In this film, Sarika played the lead role of Shenaz, a Zoroastrian lady who lost her child during the 2002 riots in India.
Biography: Sarika Thakur, known popularly as Sarika began her career in the film industry as a child actor. During the 1960s in B Town, Sarika played the role of a little boy named Master Sooraj. Later on in her life, Sarika moved on to much better movies such as Hiren Nag’s ‘Geet Gaata Chal’ (1975), starring Sarika herself, Sachin and Madan Puri. She has appeared on screen with Sachin in numerous Marathi and Hindi films and she is also known to have had a small affair with him. Soon after they broke up, she got herself involved with Deepak Parashar, the model and actor. She came across Kamal Hassan when she worked with him on the sets of ‘Karishmaa’ (1984), directed by I. V. Sasi.
Since the 1980s, Sarika has often been casted as a ‘westernized girl’. At the peak of her career, she took a break from acting soon after she married Kamal Hassan, and shifted to Chennai with him. After they got divorced in 2002, Sarika made her comeback in the industry with Abhigyan Jha and Abhiyan Rajans, ‘Sacred Evil- A True Story’ (2006). This film was not successful at the theatres.
One of her latest films include the Shoojit Sircar directed ‘Shoebite’, starring herself along with Amitabh Bachchan, Dia Mirza and Jimmy Shergill. This film has been delayed for production.
Her filmography includes ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’, ‘David’, ‘Shoebite’, ‘Society’, ‘Kaccha Limbu’, ‘Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors’, ‘Y. M. I. Yeh Mera India’, ‘Tahaan’, ‘U Me Aur Hum’, ‘Manorama Six Feet Under’, ‘Bheja Fry’, ‘Baabul’, ‘Sacred Evil’, ‘Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow’, ‘Parzania’, ‘American Daylight’, ‘Raghu Romep’, ‘Punnagai Poove’, ‘Aakhri Sanghursh’, ‘Santosh’, ‘Ajeeb Itefaq’, ‘Kharidar’, ‘Swati’, ‘Shart’, ‘Dilwaala’, ‘Qatl’, ‘Mangal Dada’, ‘Zinda Laash’, ‘Ek Daku Saher Mein’, ‘Ram Tere Kitne Nam’, ‘Ek Bhool’, ‘Karishmaa’, ‘Gangvaa’,’Ram Tera Desh’, ‘Aasmaan’, ‘Akalmand’, ‘Raaj Tilak’, ‘Bade Dil Wala’, ‘Nastik’,’Bagga Daku’, ‘Razia Sultan’, ‘Vidhaata’, ‘Badle Ki Aag’, ‘Meharbaani’, ‘Teesri Aankh’, ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’, ‘Shriman Shrimati’, ‘Satte Pe Satta’, ‘Daulat’, ‘Dil Hi Dil Mein’, ‘Sannata’, ‘Dahshat’, ‘Kranti’, ‘Nai Imarat’, ‘Plot No. 5’, ‘Sharada’, ‘Jyoti Bane Jwala’, ‘Nazrana Pyar Ka’, ‘Pyaara Dushman’, ‘Yeh Kaisa Insaaf?’, ‘Bin Phere Hum Tere’, ‘Griha Pravesh’, ‘Jaan-E-Bahaar’, ‘Jaani Dushman’, ‘Raakhi Ki Saugandh’, ‘Til Til Dalekha’, ‘Tik… Tik… Tik…’, ‘Anpadh’, ‘Devata’, ‘Madhu Malti’, ‘Paradh’, ‘Bundal Baaz’, ‘Raksha Bandhan’, ‘Khushboo’, ‘Geet Gaata Chal’, ‘Kaagaz Ki Nao’, ‘Vandana’, ‘Haar Jeet’, ‘Chhoti Bahu’, ‘Jawan Muhabat’, ‘Devi’, ‘Balak’, ‘Jyoti’, ‘Satyakam’, ‘Aashirwad’, ‘Hamraaz’ and ‘Majhli Didi’.