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Sharada or Sarada (Sanskrit for "autumnal") may refer to:
- Another name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati
- Sharada script, abugida writing system
- Sharada, a Unicode block of Sharada script characters
Sharada (born 25 June 1945) is a three-time National Award winning Indian actress and Indian Parliament member. She originally hails from Andhra Pradesh. She has achieved success through Malayalam movies. Initially she did many supporting roles in Telugu films and later on moved to the Malayalam film industry and gained success there. She is also known as Urvasi Sharada because earlier the National Film Award for Best Actress was officially designated the Urvasi Award. Sharada has been selected for the prestigious NTR National Award instituted by the Andhra Pradesh state government for the year 2010.
Sharada is a 1957 Indian Bollywood film directed by L.V. Prasad. The film stars Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari in lead roles, and Shyama, Raj Mehra and Anita Guha in supporting roles.
The film did "above average" business and was the ninth highest grossing film at the Indian Box Office in 1957. The movie was a remake of 1954 Tamil movie Edhir Paradhathu.
Sharada is a 1973 Telugu drama film starring Sarada and directed by K. Viswanath.
Sharada is a Unicode block containing historic characters for writing Kashmiri, Sanskrit, and other languages of the northern Indian subcontinent in the 8th to 20th centuries.