Remembering Child Artist Taruni Sachdev

Taruni SachdevThis post is a remembrance to the Child Prodigy Artist Taruni Sachdev.

Taruni Sachdev or Tharuni Sachdev (as they call in South)  was a Child Artist popularly known as Rasna Girl. She appeared in a number of Movies and Commercials.

She was born in 1998  in Mumbai and died on May 14 , 2012 when  Agni Air Flight CHT crashed in Nepal . She was daughter of Geetha Sachdev.

Taruni was among 15 killed when a 20 seater Agni Air-operated Dornier Do 228 plane slammed into a cliff in western Nepal. The plane was flying from Pokhara, Nepal, a major tourist destination, to Jomsom which is about 60 km away. Her mother Geetha Sachdev, who was with her on the flight, also died in the crash.

She acted in several television advertisements of Rasna, Colgate, ICICI Bank, Saffola, Kesar Badam Milk, to name a few. She also worked in Malayalam movies Vellinakshatram (2004) and Sathyam (2004). She was also a part in Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? as a replacement of  Shriya Sharma. She has acted in noted Bollywood films like Paa with Amitabh Bachchan.  She worked in Chillar Party also as a supporting cast. She initially was seen in daily soap “Kasautii Zindagii Kay” as a child artist.

Below is the Famous Rasna Commercial with Karishma Kapoor which made her famous as Rasna Girl

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Altogether she has acted in many ad films for companies such as VIP, Airtel, LG, Cheverlet and Kinley. She was 14 at the time of her death.
She was living in Shyam Nivas, Plot No.764, West 5th Road with her father Sachdev who is a businessman in Mumbai.

Here is yet another fabulous commercial of her.

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