New Delhi: Veteran actress and three-time National Award-winning performer Surekha Sikri passed away on Friday (July 16) morning at 7.30 am after suffering from a cardiac arrest. Surekha was 75 years old and was surrounded by her family during her last moments.


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The actress played the matriarch, Kalyani Devi, in the popular TV show Balika Vadhu, which made her a household name. Surekha was awarded the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress thrice, for her spectacular performances in films Tamas (1988), Mammo (1995) and Badhaai Ho (2018).


Mourning her demise, various celebrities remembered the incredible talent and amazing persona of the theatre, TV and film actress.


Janhvi Kapoor, who worked with Surekha in Netflix’s Ghost Stories, put out an Insta story featuring the late actress from her young days and captioned it, “Surekha mam, a true legend. RIP,” with a heart emoji.



Neena Gupta, who also studied from National School of Drama, just like Surekha, remembered looking at the late actress doing theatre and aspiring to be just like her. The two worked together in the 2018 comedy film ‘Badhaai ho’. Neena revealed that Surekha performed her scenes with full gusto and with the same enthusiasm would give her cues.






Surekha Sikri was dealing with health issues for some time. The actress suffered two brain strokes in 2020 and 2018 respectively.