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Nonika Singh
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’.