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Surekha Sikri is a Actor Indian born on 19 april 1945 at New Delhi (Inde)

Surekha Sikri

Surekha Sikri
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Birth name Surekha Sikri
Nationality Inde
Birth 19 april 1945 at New Delhi (Inde)
Death 16 july 2021 (at 76 years)
Awards National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Surekha Sikri or Surekha Sikri Rege is an Indian film, theatre and television actress. A veteran of Hindi theatre, she made her debut in the 1978 political drama film Kissa Kursi Ka, and went on to play supporting roles in numerous Hindi and Malayalam films, as well as in Indian soap operas.

Sikri has (twice) won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Tamas (1988) and Mammo (1995). She was awarded the Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Negative Role in 2009 for her work in the primetime soap opera Balika Vadhu, and for the same show won the Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2011. In addition, she won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1989 for her contributions towards Hindi theatre.

Biography

Noted actor Naseeruddin Shah is her former brother-in-law, as his first marriage was with her sister Manara Sikri. She is thus their daughter Heeba Shah's maternal aunt. Heeba in fact even acted as the younger version of her aunt's character Dadisa in the television serial Balika Vadhu.

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Filmography of Surekha Sikri (24 films)

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Dev.D
Dev.D (2009)
, 2h24
Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Abhay Deol, Mahi Gill, Kalki Koechlin, Sunil Grover, Gurkirtan Chauhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Rating78% 3.947793.947793.947793.947793.94779
Paro Dev (Abhay Deol), the son of a rich businessman, is an insecure narcissist. He and Paro (Mahi Gill) are childhood sweethearts. Instead of acknowledging her affection and care, Dev nudges Paro over frivolous things. He is sent to London for higher studies when his father senses how spoilt his son is. While separated by distance, Paro and Dev's youthful love only blossoms more. After finishing his studies, Dev returns to Chandigarh and meets Paro. Their endeavor to make love makes for some dark comic moments. When Dev hears rumours about Paro, he immediately believes them and ditches her. The seeds of suspicion are sown here, which the couple are never able to weed out. What makes them fall apart is mutual suspicion and an essentially male vision of how a woman should conduct herself sexually. Paro turns her back on him when she hears him insult her and agrees to marry a man of her parents' choice. On her wedding day, Dev learns that the rumors were false but his ego doesn't let him accept his mistake, and he lets Paro marry someone else.
Jo Bole So Nihaal, 2h7
Directed by Rahul Rawail
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Sunny Deol, Kamaal Khan, Shilpi Sharma, Surekha Sikri, Surendra Pal Singh, Arun Bakshi
Roles Mrs. Balwant Singh (Nihaal's mom)
Rating37% 1.867731.867731.867731.867731.86773
Nihaal Singh (Sunny Deol) is an honest and beloved constable from Punjab.
Tumsa Nahin Dekha: A Love Story, 2h6
Directed by Anurag Basu
Genres Musical, Romance
Actors Emraan Hashmi, Diya Mirza, Anupam Kher, Sharat Saxena, Surekha Sikri, Avtar Gill
Roles Daksh's Grandmother
Rating46% 2.314842.314842.314842.314842.31484
The film starts with Daksh Mittal (Emraan Hashmi), a charming and continually drunk millionaire. One day, he runs into a girl, Jiya (Diya Mirza) on the street and falls in love at first sight. Jiya is working as a strip dancer and has a mentally handicapped brother. Daksh and Jiya spend some time with each other and fall in love. Daksh, however, is supposed to marry Anahita Madhwani (Pooja Bharati) in order to inherit a million-dollar trust.
Raincoat
Raincoat (2004)
, 2h
Directed by Rituparno Gosh
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Aishwarya Rai, Annu Kapoor, Surekha Sikri, Mouli Ganguly, Sameer Dharmadhikari
Roles Mannu's mother
Rating76% 3.845953.845953.845953.845953.84595
The story begins with unemployed Manu (Ajay Devgan), from Bhagalpur in search of money to finance his new business as he has lost his earlier job at a jute mill. On his quest, he visits Neeru (Aishwarya Rai) in Calcutta, to whom he was engaged six years ago. During the rainy evening, the couple reminisce about their former love and how each ended up in their current situation.
Raghu Romeo
Directed by Rajat Kapoor
Genres Comedy
Actors Vijay Raaz, Nishikant Dixit, Sadiya Siddiqui, Maria Goretti, Saurabh Shukla, Virendra Saxena
Roles Mother
Rating68% 3.440993.440993.440993.440993.44099
Raghu Romeo (Vijay Raaz) is a guileless man, who hails from a lower-middle-class family. He is a 30-year-old waiter henpecked by his mother and by the boss who seldom pays him. In his naivete, Raghu thinks he must protect the virtue of that joint's floozies from grabby clients, especially Sweety (Sadiya Siddiqui), a hitman's honey whose cynical surface masks a soft spot for the clueless hero. But he only has eyes for Neeta, a quintessential TV-soap suffering-heroine played by not-so-nice Reshma (Maria Goretti). Unable to distinguish between reel and real life, Raghu kidnaps the terrified actress and takes her to the countryside house of Sweety. Turns out she is on the hit-list (for failing to pay off the entertainment industry's mob "protectors").
Kali Salwar, 1h52
Directed by Fareeda Mehta
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Sadiya Siddiqui, Irrfan Khan, Vrajesh Hirjee, Kay Kay Menon, Ashok Banthia, Rajat Kapoor
Rating60% 3.047593.047593.047593.047593.04759
Sultana (Sadiya Siddiqui), a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Initially she is bewildered by the crowds and pace of the city. With the help of Anwari (a madam or perhaps a witch) she learns how to find her bearings. As she further encounters the city and its inhabitants new perspectives open up - sad, comical, ironical but always mysterious. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hands at many jobs but is unsuccessful. His faith in his camera is replaced by his belief in a holy man. Sultana finds herself bereft and turns pensive. Her loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for the 'kali salwaar' (black lower garment) that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning in Moharram.
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, 2h
Directed by Aparna Sen
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhisham Sahni, Surekha Sikri, Anjan Dutt, Bharat Kaul
Roles Najma Ahmed Khan – The dutiful and loving wife of Iqbal, Najma perishes in the riots when she comes in defence of her husband.
Rating78% 3.945573.945573.945573.945573.94557
Meenakshi Iyer (Konkona Sen Sharma), with her infant son, Santhanam, embarks on a bus journey to return to her husband, from her parents' place. At the bus station, Meenakshi and Raja Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) get introduced to each other through a common friend. Raja, a wildlife photographer, is requested by Meenakshi's parents to look after their daughter and baby grandson during the journey.
Zubeidaa
Zubeidaa (2001)
, 2h33
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Karisma Kapoor, Rekha, Manoj Bajpayee, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Rahul Singh
Rating64% 3.244453.244453.244453.244453.24445
Zubeidaa is the story of Riyaz's (Rajit Kapoor) search to understand his mother, who is not known to him, as he was brought up by his grandmother in the absence of his mother. His mother's name was Zubeidaa (Karisma Kapoor) and she was the only daughter of a filmmaker named Suleman Seth (Amrish Puri). Zubeidaa acts in films secretly, but when her father finds out he forbids her to carry on and quickly arranges her marriage to Mehboob Alam (Vinod Sharawat). Things seem happy for her when she gives birth to Riyaz. However, a disagreement arises between Suleman and Mehboob's father, and Mehboob divorces Zubeidaa few days after she gives birth.
Body
Body (2001)
, 2h
Directed by Govind Nihalani
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Kitu Gidwani, Joy Sengupta, Alyy Khan, Surekha Sikri
Roles Om's Mother
Rating46% 2.3462852.3462852.3462852.3462852.346285
It's 2022. Om Prakash, a jobless young man lives with his wife Jaya, mother and younger brother Jeetu in a one-room tenement in Mumbai. He falls for a multinational company's offer to provide his family a life of luxury for the rest of their lives in exchange for body organs for wealthy foreigner clients. The family's life changes as he signs the contract. They lose their privacy as company watches their every move. As part of the contract Om has to pose as a bachelor and Jaya, his wife, is forced to call herself his sister. But Jeetu, who works as a gigolo, a male prostitute, refuses to permit himself to be controlled and walks out of home. After few months as Om, Jaya and his mother, are growing accustomed to their new life, Jeetu comes back, battered and beaten. As Jaya nurses him the time for the organ transplants comes. The company officials come and take away Jeetu instead of Om for the transplants. Jaya, who has been putting up with it all for long, finally, refuses to become a party to the contract and chooses freedom instead.
Hari Bhari
Hari Bhari (2000)
, 2h14
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Shabana Azmi, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Nandita Das, Surekha Sikri, Shrivallabh Vyas
Roles Hasina
Rating73% 3.694443.694443.694443.694443.69444
The movie tells the story of a middle aged Muslim woman Gazala (Shabana Azmi), who is ill treated by her husband and sent back to her parent's home, just because she is unable to give birth to a son. Gazala does have a daughter Salma (Rajeshwari Sachdev). The plot revolves around Gazala's stay at her mother's home and the problems faced by the women of the house, being her mother and sisters-in-law. The film is a beautiful description of the problems faced by women in the name of fertility, or in a different sense the urge to have a male child, especially in rural India. Shyam Benegal provides a masterpiece, reflecting on the sorrowful plight of rural Indian women. The irony lies in the point where the movie begins with a scene which shows a bull being brought to impregnate a buffalo. Five different women, each with a different story depicting the harsh realities of a woman's life.
Cotton Mary, 2h4
Directed by Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Sakina Jaffrey, Gemma Jones, Sarah Badel
Roles Gwen
Rating52% 2.609752.609752.609752.609752.60975
This film follows the story of a British woman living in India (Scacchi). She struggles during her birth and is in desperate need of a nanny. An Indian nurse known as Cotton Mary jumps to the opportunity. She seems kind at first, but her true nature gradually reveals itself as she manipulates everyone around her to get what she wants.
Sarfarosh
Sarfarosh (1999)
, 2h40
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Sonali Bendre, Mukesh Rishi, Naseeruddin Shah, Dinesh Kaushik, Shrivallabh Vyas
Roles Sultan's Mother
Rating80% 4.047564.047564.047564.047564.04756
Arms trade is taking place in India. An arsenal enters Indian territory via the state of Rajasthan, which makes its way to interior of India with help of many middlemen. Bala Thakur, a gun handler in Chandrapur, provides the arms to Veeran, a forest dwelling brigand. Later, Veeran and his gang attack a wedding bus, mercilessly gunning down every person in it which includes women and children. The government appoints a Special Action Team in Mumbai to trace the roots behind the attack. The team learns about Bala Thakur, but thanks to his informants, Thakur flees before he can be apprehended.
Birthday
Birthday (1998)

Actors Nandita Das, Surekha Sikri, Nedumudi Venu
Roles Sarasu's mother
Rating75% 3.777513.777513.777513.777513.77751
Sardari Begum, 2h15
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama
Actors Kiron Kher, Surekha Sikri, Amrish Puri, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Uttara Baokar
Roles Ittan Bai
Rating70% 3.524823.524823.524823.524823.52482
The police are called to investigate the death of a woman during a riot in the walled city of Delhi. She was killed by a stone thrown by an agitated mob. The woman killed is known in the community as "Sardari Begum" (Kiron Kher), a popular singer and courtesan. The religious nature of the incident and the impending elections combine to attract the media's attention. When a young reporter covering the funeral, Tehzeeb Abbasi (Rajina Raj Bisaria), discovers her father among the mourners, her curiosity prompts her to investigate further. Then comes the revelation that the singer was in fact her aunt, who was disowned by her family for rebelliously learning music from a concubine.
Naseem
Naseem (1995)
, 2h
Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Mayuri Kango, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kay Kay Menon, Surekha Sikri, Ravi Jhankal
Rating70% 3.525453.525453.525453.525453.52545
Naseem means Morning breeze, and charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem (Mayuri Kango) in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.