Veteran Bollywood and television actor Surekha Sikri has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Mumbai hospital on Tuesday follwoing a brain stroke, her agent Vivek Sidhwani told news agency PTI.
“She suffered a stroke earlier today. She is in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Her parameters continues to be monitored closely. She is critical but stable. She was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai this afternoon,” Sidhwani said.
The 75-year-old is a three-time recipient of the National Film Award, and is a film, theatre and TV veteran. Sikhri received the award recently for her role of a grandmother in Ayushmann Khurrana’s 2018 film ‘Badhaai Ho’.
She was not doing well at that time and had turned up in a wheelchair to accept the award.
Sikhri is best-known for her work in ‘Tamas’, ‘Mammo’, ‘Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro’, ‘Zubeidaa’ and daily soap ‘Balika Vadhu’. She was last seen in Netflix’s 2020 film ‘Ghost Stories’, co-directed by Zoya Akhtar.