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Surekha Sikri - An Actor Par Excellence (1945-2021)
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Veteran actress Surekha Sikri won hearts and a National Award with her feisty performance of a quirky robust ‘dadi’ (grandmother) in successful and critically acclaimed ‘Badhaai Ho’.
Three-time National Award winner, she had a winning smile that never failed to connect. It’s hard to imagine we have seen the last of sprightly acts of the actor, who was last seen as a bedridden patient in director Zoya Akhtar’s short film in the Netflix anthology ‘Ghost Stories’.
An NSD alumna who made her film debut with ‘Kissa Kursi Ka’ (1978), her filmography with films like ‘Sardari Begum’, ‘Zubeidaa’, ‘Hari Bhari’, ‘Sarfarosh’ and Rituparna Ghosh’s ‘Raincoat’ runs long. So does her innings on television, which includes Govind Nihalini’s critical success ‘Tamas’.
Late actor Surekha Sikri
Surekha Sikri, whose precise and nuanced acting enlivened and elevated Delhi theatre in the 1970s and who delivered a clutch of pitch-perfect performances in films and television, passed away after a heart attack in Mumbai on Friday morning. She was 76.
“She had been suffering from complications arising from a second brain stroke,” the actor s agent Vivek Sidhwani told PTI. The first stroke had occurred in last September.
Whatever the medium, Sikri approached every part with sincerity and sensitivity; her acting always informed by an intense yet elegant aesthetic. One of her three national awards came for ‘Mammo’ (1994), richly deserved for her finely-grained depiction of insecurity and anxiety that the part required. The other two came in Govind Nihalani’s telefilm, ‘Tamas’ (1988) and director Amit Sharma’s ‘Badhaai Ho’ (2018).