Most Underrated · Women
Surekha Sikri
सुरेखा सीकरी
“Three National Awards. Most obituaries led with a television serial.”
- Screen debut
- 1978
- Best in
- Badhaai Ho (2018)
- Also see
- Tamas · Mammo · Sardari Begum · Zubeidaa · Balika Vadhu
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The case
Sikri was an NSD-trained stage actor who won National Awards across four decades — Tamas, Mammo, and finally Badhaai Ho at 73, where she does the film's hardest job: making the grandmother's cruelty and her loyalty the same trait. She was a great actor who happened to also be famous for a soap.
Where to start
Begin with Badhaai Ho (2018). It's in this canon — read our entry on it. Then work through Tamas, Mammo, Sardari Begum.
See how we defined “underrated” and why some obvious names are missing in our methodology essay.
Career record Wikipedia — Surekha Sikri · data last revised 9 August 2026 · debut year and filmography are read from that article; no award count, box-office figure or rating is claimed here
Editorial Selection as one of the twenty most underrated, and the case made for it — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
In the canon
