Sridevi
लेती
थी
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Those
expressive
eyes
and
the
mischievous
smile
sent
hearts
aquiver
and
lit
up
the
cinema
screens,
making
Sridevi
Bollywood's
first
female
superstar.
Sridevi's
sudden
death
at
the
age
of
54
in
Dubai
due
to
cardiac
arrest
yesterday
has
left
family
and
fans
in
shock
and
grief.
This
Chandni
left
the
world
too
soon.
The
actor,
wife
of
producer
Boney
Kapoor,
died
late
at
Saturday
night
reportedly
due
to
cardiac
arrest
in
Dubai,
where
she
had
gone
along
with
her
family
to
attend
her
nephew
Mohit
Marwah's
wedding.
In
an
impressive
career,
spanning
five-decades,
the
actor
ruled
the
commercial
cinema
space
in
the
'80s
and
'90s
like
no
heroine
had
done
before.
In
an
industry
dominated
by
male
superstars,
Sridevi
reversed
the
trend
by
her
sheer
acting
prowess.
Her
name,
most
of
the
times,
was
a
guarantee
enough
for
a
film's
success.
An
extremely
shy
person
in
real
life,
Sridevi
came
alive
in
front
of
the
cameras,
playing
a
variety
of
roles.
Such
was
her
popularity
that
her
style
and
dance
moves
would
be
copied
by
her
fans
country
over.
She
was
'Miss
Hawa
Hawaaii' and
'Chandni'
for
them.
Sridevi
started
acting
at
the
age
of
four
and
made
her
debut
with
M
A
Thirumugham's
Thunaivan.
She
continued
acting
in
Tamil,
Telugu,
Malayalam
and
Kannada
films
but
it
was
her
career
in
Bollywood
that
made
her
a
household
name
in
the
country.
She
made
her
Bollywood
debut
as
a
child
artiste
in
1975
hit
Julie
but
continued
ruling
the
South
Indian
film
industry
where
she
established
herself
as
a
leading
heroine
with
films
such
as
16
Vayathinile,
Sigappu
Rojakkal,
Meendum
Kokila
and
Moondram
Pirai.
In
Bollywood,
she
made
her
debut
in
1978
as
a
lead
actor
in
Solva
Sawan.
She
gained
commercial
success
with
the
1983
film
Himmatwala
opposite
Jeetendra,
which
also
established
her
as
one
of
the
best
dancers
in
cinema.
She
was
grace-personified
dressed
as
an
apsara
(a
celestial
beauty
in
Hindu
mythology)
performing
on
the
hit
track
'Nainon
mein
sapna'.
The
year
1983
also
saw
Sridevi
give
stellar
performances
in
both
critically
acclaimed
and
box-office
hits
such
as
"Sadma",
where
she
played
the
role
of
a
woman
who
loses
her
memory.
Both
she
and
actor-turned-politician
Kamal
Haasan
played
the
roles
in
the
Hindi
remake
of
their
1982
Tamil
movie,
Moondram
Pirai.
The
climax
of
the
heart-wrenching
movie
was
deemed
as
poetic
as
the
entire
plot,
with
the
song
'Ae
zindagi
gale
laga
le'
as
an
ode
to
the
philosophy
of
uncertainty
in
life.
Sridevi
followed
it
up
with
a
number
of
commercial
hits
such
as
Mawaali,
Tohfa,
Masterji
and
Nazrana.
In
1987
came
Shekhar
Kapur's
Mr
India,
a
film
which
was
produced
by
her
future
husband
Boney
Kapoor.
Sridevi
gave
a
memorable
performance
as
crime
reporter
Seema
Sohni.
She
was
one
of
the
few
female
actors
who
left
the
audience
spellbound
with
both
her
comic
timing
and
sensuality.
How
her
undercover
scribe
transformed
into
Ms
Hawa
Hawaaii,
thanks
to
her
dancing
skills
in
one
of
the
popular
songs,
is
one
of
the
most
memorable
scenes
of
the
film.
Owing
to
the
cult
status
the
song
went
on
to
achieve,
the
Kavita
Krishnamurthy
number
has
been
recreated
a
number
of
times
in
films
such
as
Shaitan
and
most
recently
in
Vidya
Balan's
Tumhari
Sulu.
And
so
will
'Kaate
nahi
kat-te',
an
iconic
sultry
number
which
saw
the
actor
romance
an
invisible
man
in
a
song
revelling
in
a
never-before-seen
boldness
and
fantasy.
Filmmaker
Yash
Chopra
cast
her
in
the
title
role
of
Chandni
in
the
1989
film,
another
iconic
film
of
her
career.
Such
was
her
performance
in
the
film
that
fans
came
to
recognise
her
with
the
name
of
Chandni.
Impressed
with
her
performance
in
the
film,
Chopra
cast
her
again
in
"Lamhe" in
a
dual
role,
where
she
played
the
mother
and
the
daughter.
It
did
not
do
well
at
the
box
office
at
that
time
but
has
come
to
be
known
one
the
best
films
of
Sridevi,
Chopra
and
Anil
Kapoor's
careers.
The
film
was
said
to
be
ahead
of
its
times
as
it
dealt
with
a
woman
falling
for
an
older
man
who
is
in
love
with
her
dead
mother.
Her
other
major
box
office
hits
of
the
era
were
Chaalbaaz,
where
she
played
the
role
of
twins,
Nagina,
and
Khuda
Gawah
opposite
Amitabh
Bachchan.
Her
pairing
with
Anil
Kapoor,
her
"Mr
India" co-star
and
brother-in-law,
was
particularly
successful
and
she
would
work
with
him
again
in
Laadla
and
Judaai.
After
Judaai,
Sridevi
took
a
break
from
acting
to
focus
on
her
marriage
with
Boney
Kapoor.
She
had
two
daughters
--
Janhvi
and
Khushi
--
with
Kapoor.
The
actor
made
a
successful
comeback
to
cinema
15
years
later
with
Gauri
Shinde's
English
Vinglish,
playing
a
housewife
who
learns
English
after
feeling
left
out
in
her
family.
She
also
had
a
starring
role
in
Tamil
film
Puli
and
followed
English
Vinglish
with
another
successful
outing
in
Mom,
which
also
featured
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui
and
Akshaye
Khanna.
The
actor's
elder
daughter
Janhvi
is
on
the
cusp
of
her
own
cinematic
journey
with
Dhadak,
a
remake
of
the
Marathi
blockbuster
Sairat.
Unfortunately,
Sridevi
will
not
be
there
to
witness
it.PTI