Child Actors Who Turned Superstars in Indian Cinema

4. Sridevi:

Sirdevi is another talented actress who made her debut as a child actress in the Tamil movie “Kandan Karunai” in the year 1969 and continued to appear as a child actress in many Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu movies. She also acted as a child actress in the Hindi movie “Julie” in the year 1975. Before becoming a top actress in the Bollywood industry she was already a noted actress down south with movies like “16 Vayathinile”, “Sigappu RajaKkal”, “Varumayin Niram Sivappu” etc. She started her successful journey in Bollywood with movies like, “Sadma”, “Nagina”, “Mr. India”, “ChaalBaaz”, “Lamhe”, “Khuda Gawah”, “Judaai” etc. She made a comeback after 15 years of break through the movie “English Vinglish”, which is considered to be a Blockbuster Hit of 2012.

5. Shashi Kapoor:

Shashi Kapoor is one among the versatile actors in the Hindi film industry, he started his acting career as a child actor in many nythological and commercial films like “Meena”, “Tadbir”, “Bachpan”, “Aag” and “Awaara” etc.  With the lead role in the movie ‘Dharmputra’ in the year 1961, he has starred in around 116 Hindi movies as a lead protagonist, that includes sole lead actor in 63 movies and 53 multi starrer movies. He has also been awarded by Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2011.

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