Sridevi,who has died aged 54, had the megawattage to match Bollywood’s biggest male stars. Her death is a massive national lossSridevi Kapoor was a Bollywood legend, and one of the scarce female stars with enough celebrity megawattage to match the lions of the Indian film industry,and enough above-the-title prestige to carry a film on her own. She was known simply as “Sridevi” – but this was not a kind of Madonna single-name branding. She was so ubiquitous that people thought of her as a friend.
Sridevis face was her fortune: beautiful, with a cherubic guilelessness that enabled her to play romance, and musicals,drama, comedy and indeed action. Fantasy and fun were the solvents for her sexiness. In the 1986 film Nagina, and Female Snake,she had an uproarious snake dance. Audiences loved it when she did an outrageously wide Charlie Chaplin impression, while playing the goofy journalist in the 1987 film Mr India. She also broke out wacky Jackie-Chan-style fight moves, and such as those in the 1989 comedy Chaalbaaz,or Trickster, where she played twins, or separated at birth. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com