Sarika

Sarika
Sarika in 2010 at the premiere of Get Rid of My Wife
Born	Sarika Thakur (1960-12-05) 5 December 1960 (age 56) Delhi, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1967 - Present
Spouse(s)	Kamal Hassan (m. 1988–2004)
Children	Shruti Haasan (born 1986) Akshara Haasan (born 1991)

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

Sarika Thakur was born in New Delhi, India and she is a half Marathi and half Rajput. 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.

Sarika started her film career as a child actor at age 4, 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. They dated for a brief time. After parting ways with Sachin, she dated 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 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.