Benaf Dadachandji

Benaf Dadachanji

Born	1987/1988 (age 28–29)^[1] Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present

Benaf Dadachanji is an Indian actress, working in Hindi television. She received three Star Parivaar Awards for portraying the role of Radhika "Baby" Thakkar, a physically handicapped young girl, in the popular TV series Baa Bahoo Aur Baby. Born in Mumbai, she did her schooling from St. Anne's High School.^[2]

Benaf started her career with various advertisements.^[3] In 1995, she appeared in Santosh Sivan directed Hindi film Halo as Shasha and then in the 1998 film China Gate as Lali. For her performance in Halo, she received Special Jury Award at the 43rd National Film Awards.^[4] The jury presented the certificate award for "her charming and natural performance".^[2]^[3] She later started her career in Hindi television industry playing various roles in soaps like Baa Bahu aur Baby, Jhansi Ki Rani and Choti Bahu 2. Since May 2012 she appears as Paulomi in Byah Hamari Bahu Ka.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Halo	Shasha	Film
1997	Nazarana	Ishita	TV movie
1998	China Gate	Lali	Film
2004–2005	Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag	Lopa	TV serial Star Plus
2005–2010	Baa Bahoo Aur Baby	Radhika "Baby" Thakkar	TV serial Star Plus
2009–2011	Jhansi Ki Rani	Ganga	TV serial Zee TV
2011–2012	Choti Bahu 2	Barkha	TV serial Zee TV
2012	Byaah Hamari Bahoo Ka	Paulomi	TV serial Sony TV
2014	Bobby Jasoos	Noor	Film
2015-2016	Sumit Sambhal Lega	Simran	TV serial Star Plus

Awards

Dadachanji has won following awards:

1995 : International Children Film Festival, Hyderabad in Best Child Artist category^[2]^[3]
1996 : 43rd National Film Awards in Special Jury Award category for Halo
1997 : Children's Filmfest, New York in Best Artist category for Halo^[6]

References

↑ Vetticad, Anna M.M. (22 May 2000). "Look at me now". India Today. Retrieved 22 May 2016. Benaf - six during the shooting, now 12
1 2 3 "43rd National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
1 2 3 "43rd National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
↑ Narayanan, Ramya; Shah, Sonali (12 Dec 2008). "Children no more". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
↑ "Gaurav Khanna in Byaah Hamari Bahoo Ka". Times of India. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
↑ "Halo". Children's Film Society, India. Retrieved 2 Jun 2012.

External links

Benaf Dadachandji at the Internet Movie Database

National Film Award—Special Jury Award (Feature Film)

1978–1980

No Award (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

Special Mention	Mrinal Sen and Muzaffar Ali (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

1981–2000

Satyajit Ray (1981) No Award (1982) Mankada Ravi Varma (1983) T. S. Ranga (1984) Sudha Chandran (1985) John Abraham (1986) M. B. Sreenivasan (1987) Ashok Ahuja (1988) Amitabh Chakraborty (1989) Pankaj Kapur, Sunny Deol and Jayabharathi (1990) Soumitra Chatterjee (1991) Sivaji Ganesan and Ketan Mehta (1992) Shashi Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (1993) Radhu Karmakar and Shaji N. Karun (1994) Shyam Benegal (1995) Amol Palekar and Kirron Kher (1996) Jaimala (1997) Drishyakavya and Ashoke Viswanathan (1998) Kalabhavan Mani (1999) Soumitra Chatterjee (2000)

Special Mention	No Award (1981) No Award (1982) Kumar Shahani (1983) No Award (1984) No Award (1985) Sandip Ray (1986) No Award (1987) Aamir Khan (1988) Anupam Kher and Mohanlal (1989) Anoubham Kiranmala (1990) Mamata Shankar and Raveendran (1991) Sibaprasad Sen (1992) Tahir Hussain, Mahesh Bhatt, Jugal Debata and Susant Misra (1993) Mahesh Mahadevan, Bishnu Kharghoria and S. Kumar (1994) Uttara Baokar, Rohini and Benaf Dadachandji (1995) Dolon Roy and Bhagirathee (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna and Jomol (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao, Prakash Raj and Manju Warrier (1998) Mohan Joshi, Manju Borah and Kavitha Lankesh (1999) No Award (2000)

2001–present

Janaki Vishwanathan (2001) Prakash Raj (2002) Manoj Bajpai, Roopkatha and Goutam Halder (2003) J. Phillip (2004) Anupam Kher (2005) Vishal Bhardwaj (2006) Anil Kapoor and Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) NFDC and K. M. Madhusudhanan (2008) A. Sreekar Prasad (2009) Bindiya Khanolkar, Sachin Khanolkar and Anant Mahadevan (2010) Anjan Dutt (2011) Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2012) Viva In En, Mahesh Limaye, Future East Film Pvt Ltd and Ashim Ahluwalia (2013) Bhaurao Karhade (2014) Kalki Koechlin (2015)

Special Mention	Dilip Doley and Narayan Seal (2001) Jyothirmayi (2002) H. G. Dattatreya and Nedumudi Venu (2003) Gurdas Maan and Pradeep Nair (2004) No Award (2005) Thilakan and Prosenjit Chatterjee (2006) No Award (2007) No Award (2008) Padmapriya Janakiraman (2009) K. Shivaram Karanth and V. I. S. Jayabalan (2010) Mallika and Sherrey (2011) Lal, H. G. Dattatreya, Bishnu Kharghoria, Parineeti Chopra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Hansraj Jagtap and Thilakan (2012) Gauri Gadgil, Sanjana Rai and Anjali Patil (2013) Musthafa, Palomi Ghosh, Parth Bhalerao (2014) Rinku Rajguru, Jayasurya, and Ritika Singh (2015)

Zee Rishtey Awards winners

2007	Aishwarya Narkar Pratichee Mishra Kshitee Jog Manish Raisinghan Alok Nath Mohan Bhandari Sachin Shroff Neha Bamb Shilpa Shinde Ayub Khan Nupur Joshi Swati Shah Amrapali Gupta Divyanka Tripathi Manish Naggdev Prachi Desai Ashwini Kalsekar Romit Raj Neha Bamb Vineet Raina Sachin Shroff Nupur Alankar Suchitra Bandrekar Aruna Irani Karuna Verma Sharad Malhotra Bappi Lahiri Mauli Dave Teen Bahuraaniyaan

2009	Savita Prabhune Kishor Govind Mahabhole Usha Nadkarni Ajay Wadavkar Rubina Dilaik Smriti Kalra Suhasi Goradia Dhami Terence Lewis Swati Anand Roopa Ganguly Ratan Rajput Avinash Sachdev Ankita Lokhande Sushant Singh Rajput Alok Nath Aruna Irani Ekta Kapoor

2010	Alok Nath Smita Jaykar Savita Prabhune Kishor Govind Mahabole Usha Nadkarni Ajay Wadavkar Karan Grover Kritika Singhal Ayub Khan Suhasi Goradia Dhami Trishna Vivek Neena Gupta Vandana Joshi Usha Nadkarni Swati Anand Aruna Irani Sudha Chandran Pooja Pihal Binny Sharma Gaurav Khanna Priyal Gor Nishant Malkani Abhimanyu Singh Sushant Singh Rajput Ankita Lokhande Mohammad Iqbal Khan Ekta Kapoor

2011	Savita Prabhune Kishor Govind Mahabole Vibha Chibber Rajeev Verma Jignesh Joshi Rati Pandey Hiten Tejwani Suhasi Goradia Dhami Mukul Harish Ragini Nandwani Jay Bhanushali Adnan Sami Niladri Chatterjee Himmanshoo A. Malhotra Vikramjeet Virk Benaf Dadachandji Pooja Pihal Krutika Desai Khan Sara Khan Gunn Kansara Swati Bajpai Rubina Shergill Deeya Chopra Ragini Nandwani Sumit Vats Usha Nadkarni Avinash Sachdev Rubina Dilaik Karan Grover Ankita Lokhande Ekta Kapoor Pavitra Rishta

2012	Hiten Tejwani Geeta Tyagi Amit Singh Thakur Vibha Chibber Gunn Kansara Shobha Jaiswal Sumeet Mittal Roopal Tyagi Mahima Makwana Karan Singh Grover Nandish Sandhu Shruti Kanwar Rati Pandey Ashish Sharma Jay Bhanushali Varun Badola Ankit Gera Satyam Tripathi Usha Dixit Prince Gupta Faisal Khan DID Li'l Masters 2 Ankita Lokhande Gurmeet Chaudhary Kratika Sengar Rithvik Dhanjani Asha Negi Ekta Kapoor Punar Vivah

2013	Savita Prabhune Usha Nadkarni Gautami Kapoor Ankita Lokhande Rajat Tokas Surbhi Jyoti Karan Singh Grover Paridhi Sharma Vikrant Massey Ekta Kapoor

2014	Sriti Jha Shabbir Ahluwalia Rajat Tokas Paridhi Sharma Neha Marda Ravish Desai Surbhi Jyoti Ravi Dubey Nia Sharma Vaishnavi Mahant Shakti Singh Himanshu Soni Aakarshan Singh Yashpal Sharma Mohit Malik Achint Kaur Shruti Ulfat Mugdha Chaphekar

2015	Drashti Dhami Sriti Jha Zain Imam Shiny Doshi Jasmin Bhasin Ravi Dubey Sidhant Gupta Siddhant Karnick Ankush Arora Sid Makkar Shabbir Ahluwalia Achint Kaur Shagun Ajmani Anita Raj Vaishnavi Mahant Farhan Akhtar Ankitta Sharma Punit Pathak Farida Jalal Fenil Umrigar Simran Pareenja Surbhi Jyoti Additi Gupta Jamai Raja Kumkum Bhagya

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