Biography:

Sarita Joshi nee Bhosle (born 17 October 1941) is an Indian stage, television and film actress, and is a veteran actress of Gujarati theatre and Marathi theatre and also Marathi cinema. She is best known for her role as Godavari Thakkar in the hit Star Plus TV series Baa Bahoo Aur Baby.

In 1988, she was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting in Gujarati by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.

After working as child actor for six years Joshi got her first lead role at age 16. She went to act with Indian National Theatre, and its was here that she met her future husband Pravin Joshi. She made television debut in the 1980s, with TV series, Titliyan (Butterflies) directed by Nadira Babbar, followed by numerous series, including, Hasratein.

She is best known for portraying a tough yet fair matriarch in the household hit serial Baa Bahoo Aur Baby, which stopped on 28 March 2009 for a temporary seasonal break but was renewed back recently on popular demand. In 2009 Joshi played in the serial Kuchh Kook Hota Hai as Rani on 9X. Joshi played Asha Parekh's friend in movie "kanyadan". she also portrayed Abhishek Bachchan's mother in Guru directed by filmmaker Mani Ratnam. She also played a central character in the 2008 movie Dasvidaniya. Joshi then travelled to the United States that year to be part of the crossover film, Bollywood Beats, starring alongside Lilette Dubey and Pooja Kumar, in a film directed by Mehul Shah. Out of all the mediums she holds a special corner for theatre and stage performances. She claims that the joy of performing on stage is any time better than anything else and that theatre will always be her first love.[citation needed]

Now she is appearing in Star plus Chand Chupa Badal Mein which is produced by Rajan Shahi as caring, confident Grand mother of female lead Nivedita played by Neha sargam. Her recent film Gangoobai has just been released in theatres in January 2013 in which she plays the protagonist. She is often confused with actress Padma Rani who played the role of Aamir Khan's mother in the movie Dil in early 90's. She also played the character of biological mother of Gopikishan Vaishnav played by Gaurav Khanna in Sony Byaah Hamari Bahoo ka

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