On 13th August 2021 the entire Indian movie lovers and the movie celebrities remembered late renowned movie actress Sridevi’s 58th birth anniversary.
On this occasion thousands of people shared her photos, emotional notes, messages through various social medias to commemorate her.
Sridevi was an acting legend and a versatile actress and she was the first female superstar of Bollywood.
Though Sridevi has died at the age of 54, her acting and dancing skills are still continues to inspiring thousands of Indian movie stars. Her superb acting in various Hindi movies such as Chandni, Nagina, Mr India, Chaalbaaz, etc are still tickling in the heart and mind of Indian movie lovers.
The entire Indians completely shaken when they heard that the Sridevi was found unconscious in the bathtub and subsequently died. This tragedy happened on 24th Feb 2018 while she was staying in Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates where she visited in Dubai alongwith her husband Boney Kapoor.
Sridevi’s birth place is in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu and she was born on 13th August 1963. Her earlier name was “Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan”. She adapted Sridevi’s name just after she started acting in the movies.
Sridevi was a versatile actress and she became one of the movie icons of Indian movie industry. She started acting in the movies at the age of 4 and she continuouly acted in the movies about 5 decades. During this period she got a chance to act in five different language movies and altogether she acted about 300 movies.
Prior to get marry Bollywood Producer Boney Kapoor in 1996, she got married Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty in 1985 and their married relationship has abruptly ended in 1988.
Sridevi and her husband Boney Kapoor is having two daughters and their names are Jaahvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor. Janhvi Kapoor is an actress and she has already acted in two good movies such as Dhadak and the Gunjan Saxena biopic. Khushi Kapoor has been widely active on the photo-sharing platform since 2015
Sridevi started acting at the age of 4 in a Tamil movie “Thunaivan” as a Lord Muruga. In 1969 she acted in a malayalam movie “Kumara Sambhava” as a child actress. Since then she got a chance to act in varieties of roles in many regional language movies such as Tamil, Telugue, Malayalam, Kannanda and Hindi, etc.
Sridevi literally ruled Indian movie industry till her age was 33 years. In 1996 she got married Boney Kapoor and she stopped of acting in the movies. At the age of 49 she resumed her acting career once again in a selective manner and she continued the same till her sudden demise.
Her leading role in Moondru Mudichu (a Tamil Movie that was directed by K. Balachander) that has become a Mega Hit in the Box Office. This movie was release in 1976.
During her movie acting career, Sridevi acted with many actors of different age groups such as Kamal Hassan, Rajnikanth, Anil Kapur, Jeetendra, Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan etc.
From 1980 to 1990 period, Anil Kapoor and Sridevi acted together about 13 Bollywood movies such as Mr India, Lamhe, Laadla, Judaai, etc. and many of their movies were mega hit in the Box Office. Those days Anil Kapoor and Sridevi acting jodi was widely popular among the Indian movie lovers.
She acted with Jeetendra in various Bollywood movies with Jeetendra. Details of their movies are given below:-
Himmatwala (1983), Jaani Dost (1983), Justice Chaudhry (1983), Mawaali(1983), Akalmand (1984), Tohfa (1984), Balidaan (1985), Aulad (1987), Suhagan (1986), Ghar Sansar (1986), Dharm Adhikari (1986),Sone Pe Suhaaga (1988) Aag Aur Shola (1986), Himmat Aur Mehanat (1987), Sarfarosh (1985).
In 1992 she got a Film fare Award for the Best Actress in the Kshana Kshanam movie that was directed by Ram Gopal Varma.
In 2013 Sridevi received Padma Shri award from Indian Government. This highest award given for her vast contributions towards Indian movie Industry.
She also received many movie awards that are given below:-
2013 – Film fare Special Award for Nagina and Mr. India.
1992 – Film fare Best Actress Award for Lamhe.
1990 – Film fare Best Actress Award for Chaal Baaz,
1991 – Filmfare Best Actress Award (Telugu) for Kshana Kshanam
1982 – Filmfare Best Actress Award (Tamil) for Meendum Kokila
1977 – Filmfare Special Award – South for 16 Vayathinile
Throughout her decade long movie acting career, Sridevi has enthralled her movie lovers in a brilliant manner. But her sudden demise has created huge vacuum in the entire Indian Movie Industry.