We as an audience have seen many actresses coming on the big screen and winning our hearts with their compelling performances. While they ruled the entertainment realm in their times, they also played significant roles as child artists. Much before their big screen debuts, they appeared in films as child artists. Here are some actresses who started their careers as child artists:
Fatima Sana Shaikh
Fatima is one of the most talented actresses in the industry who has always won the hearts of the audience with her compelling performances. While we saw her making her big screen debut with Dangal, she also appeared as a child artist in films like Chachi 420 (1997) and One 2 Ka 4 (2001).
Alia Bhatt
Alia has always delivered captivating performances on screen and today she is one of the leading actresses in the industry. While we saw her making her debut in ‘Student Of The Year’, she made her debut as a child artist in the 1999 thriller Sangharsh.
Sridevi
Sridevi was an actress who performed in different languages and received tremendous love from all across. While her first role as an on-screen adult came in 1976 at age 13, in the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu, she made her debut as a child in the 1967 Tamil film Kandhan Karunai at the age of four, and began playing lead roles as a child in M. A. Thirumugam’s 1969 mythological Tamil film Thunaivan.
Neetu Kapoor
Neetu Kapoor is an Indian actress known for compelling performances in Hindi films throughout the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. While we saw her making her debut as a female lead in Rikshawala in 1972, she started as a child actor at the age of 8 in the 1966 film Suraj. She went by the name Baby Sonia and was praised for her double role in the film Do Kaliyan.
Urmila Matondkar
Urmila is indeed one of the most beautiful and talented actresses known for her roles in films of different languages. While she made her debut with the Malayalam blockbuster Chanakyan, she made her film debut as a child artist in B.R. Chopra’s Karm (1977). Subsequently, she featured in Shreeram Lagoo’s Marathi film Zaakol (1980), Shyam Benegal’s crime film Kalyug (1980), Shekhar Kapur’s drama Masoom (1983), Praveen Bhatt’s Bhavna (1984), K. Viswanath’s Sur Sangam (1985), Rahul Rawail’s Dacait (1987), and Kalpataru’s Bade Ghar Ki Beti (1989) as a child star.
