Naaka Bandi: Mahurat to Last shift

The cast and crew of Naaka Bandi. 

The first mahurat shot where you can see Sridevi, Chunky Panday, Sonam and a... surprise appearance from Boney Kapoor! 

Below, ? Dharmendra, Sridevi, Chunky Panday and ?

Filmfare posts rarely seen photos of Sridevi from their vast archives: On stage, with Raj Kapoor, with her family!

Filmfare has released some rarely seen photos of Sridevi from their vast archives and we are thrilled. 

Give them a follow and scroll through. 

 

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Sridevi and Boney Kapoor with baby Janhvi Kapoor

Sridevi and Boney Kapoor with baby Janhvi Kapoor 
 

Boney Kapoor with Sridevi at the airport

 

There are innumerable images of Boney Kapoor with Sridevi, but somehow, this random snap of them at Mumbai airport, captured by the papz, is enlarged and framed in their house. 

Sridevi hugs Boney Kapoor: The Kapoor kids and cousins

 Sridevi hugs Boney Kapoor: The Kapoor kids and cousins 

And just like that... Boney Kapoor turns 70: Film producer's rise and fall

Film producer Boney Kapoor, who married Indian actress Sridevi back in 1997, turns 70 today. The prominent and passionate film maker has had several well-documented career highs and lows, personal triumphs and tragedies, yet he marches on steadily with four children and the Kapoor legacy in tow. 

When Sridevi was alive, she hosted private parties for Kapoor on his birthday, big and small, depending on the year, trying to get the entire family under one roof. But now, the jet-setting kids are working hard, away from home and hearth, linked by zoom, if not proximity. Even Kapoor seems to have mellowed down as announcements of his projects seemed to have simmered down. 

He owns the IP of Mr.India, and rumour has it a three-part sequel is in the works, but without Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Saroj Khan, Anand Bakshi, Laxmikant Pyarelal... all the ingredients that made the original such a popular phenomenon, we wonder if the upcoming film will have the innocence and soul of its original predecessor. Let's wait and watch...  

Boney Kapoor's Film Production Overview

Boney Kapoor (despite being rather surprisingly good in Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (2023) and AK vs AK (2020)!) is mostly known for being a prominent Indian film producer, for his work in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu cinema. Based on his filmography, he has produced approximately 32 films as of November 2025 (including multi-language releases but excluding unreleased projects like It's My Life and web series like Jeet Ki Zid and other reality shows and sitcom on TV). This count is derived from a comprehensive list of his film productions spanning from 1980 to 2024.

Breakdown of Hits and Flops

Verdicts are based on box office performance relative to budget and collections (e.g., hits recover costs and profit moderately; flops underperform). Note that some films are classified as "semi-hit" or "average" but are grouped here as hits for simplicity if they were profitable. Recent South Indian remakes have boosted his hit ratio. 

Pls note, below is a guesstimate, kindly fact check or take with a pinch of salt - as we do most film reports and journalism! 

Key Insights

Early Success (1980s-2000s): Kapoor had strong runs with family dramas and action films, peaking with blockbusters like Mr. India, No Entry and Wanted. He often remade South Indian hits, which worked well initially, including profitable ventures like the critical and commercial hit Woh Saat Din, which featured knock-out performances by Anil Kapoor and Padmini Kolhapure back in the summer of 1983. In fact, even his first film, Hum Paanch, a modest-budget but all-star cast venture, was a huge hit (cost of production vs returns) and the seventh highest grosser of 1980 in Bollywood. With two Hindi films kept somewhat within budget, Kapoor went all out to make Mr.India, an expensive proposition that luck and talent favoured. Mr.India went on to become a runaway success as the second biggest hit of Bollywood in 1987, a timeless classic that's a favourite of many--till date. 

Then followed a double whammy; the expensive fiasco Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja and the failure-to- launch Prem in 1993 and 1995 respectively.  Proving time and again, you can have all the right ingredients but never know what the public wants, the dizzying highs led to catastrophic lows. 

Post-2010 Challenges: Kapoor saw the light again thereafter, the wildly successful Salman Khan-led No Entry and Wanted brought a smile back, but Kapoor's rollercoaster career faced a dry spell with flops again until venturing into Tamil/Telugu remakes like Pink adaptation, which delivered recent hits, alongside successes like Mom, which featured a tour-de-force performance by his late wife, the great Sridevi.

Kapoor's career graph looks like the printed chart of a heart-beat monitor, several ups and downs, but steadily he goes. Whether he's plugging his son's film or talking with rigour about what it takes to make a movie in India, he puts everything into his projects. Right down to his last designer-shirt. 

Overall Success Rate: About 44% hits, reflecting the high-risk nature of Bollywood production. His total box office collections exceed ₹2,000 crore* adjusted for inflation, driven by a few mega-hits and humbled by a few losses. 

Whatever next Mr Kapoor? 

* This analysis draws from reliable sources like Wikipedia and Box Office India snippets. Verdicts can vary slightly by source due to regional markets.

Sridevi with her family: Sreelatha and her family included

Sridevi with her family: Sreelatha and her family included.

Looking back nostalgically at happier times.  

Though it looks like Khushi's birthday, think it was in fact Boney Kapoor's birthday dinner. 

Born on November 11, 1955, Boney Kapoor celebrates his birthday today. 

BTW there was a recent online feature that stated that Sreelatha did not attend Sridevi's prayer meet, which is categorically untrue. 

Though they had their ups and downs, the two sisters made up quickly when the media was having a field day maligning both. 

Sridevi, "I have a problem with numbers, I remember only four numbers, my husband's, two kids' and my sister's number, besides that, I don't have a clue who else to call!" 

 

Boney Kapoor, Sridevi, Manish Malhotra, Pinky Reddy and G.V. Sanjay Reddy

Boney Kapoor, Sridevi, Manish Malhotra, Pinky Reddy and G.V. Sanjay Reddy

Sridevi just glows... what a Goddess she was! 

Pinky Reddy's father co-produced a few of Sridevi's most memorable films so Pinky's known Sridevi since she was a child. 

An enduring friendship, Pinky Reddy's also one of the handful who remembers Sridevi.... 

Varna sabh chaar din ki Chandni koh hi yaad karte hain, aur phir bhool jaate hain. 

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Kapoors and Wives: TBT To this Kapoor Family Dinner

Throwback to happier times; Sridevi with her husband and in-laws during a dinner back in 2012. 

Sridevi's look from her promo launch of English Vinglish that year. 

-- 14 June, 2012. 

In pic, Sridevi behind Boney Kapoor, Maheep behind Sanjay Kapoor and Sunita behind Anil Kapoor. 

Behind every successful man... 

Wayback Wednesday: Sridevi, Boney Kapoor and kids Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor for Matrubhoomi: Circa 2004

Sridevi with Boney Kapoor and their children Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor. Sridevi was presenting the shocking Hindi film Matrubhoomi with Tulip Joshi in the lead.  

This is around 2004. 

Cast and crew of Mr.India: Rare pic: Shekhar Kapur, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Boney Kapoor

Cast and crew of Mr.India: Rare pic: Shekhar Kapur (director), Anil Kapoor (lead), Sridevi (leading lady) and Boney Kapoor (producer). 

Those were the days... think they knew they had a winner at hand. The buzz for the film was unprecedented.

 

Boney Kapoor's Birthday: November 11: Film Producer and Superstar Sridevi's husband turns 69

Boney Kapoor's Birthday: November 11: Film Producer and Superstar Sridevi's husband turns 69. We always have to turn comments off on Boney Kapoor posts as there's a faction of Sridevi's fandom--God save us from the fanatics--who have their own delusional bat-shit theories about him. 

A film producer who fell in love with his leading lady is an age old story be it in any film industry, from any time, any era. This just hit home as it was 'our' Sridevi, the nation's leading lady. 

For a little perspective, his interview with Filmfare magazine is the most eye-opening, self-explanatory and the closest he's come to a mea culpa regarding the complicated personal lives of all parties involved. 

Sridevi had a more royal mantra; Never Explain, Never Complain. 

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Sridevi celebrates Khushi Kapoor's first birthday. November 5, 2001

 

Sridevi celebrates her youngest daughter, little Khushi's first birthday. 

November 5, 2001

Boney Kapoor and Janhvi Kapoor look on. So cute! 

TBT to 1999: Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor, Sridevi at Rakesh Roshan's 50th birthday party

A major throwback pic - Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor, Sridevi at Rakesh Roshan's 50th birthday party. Dear GOD does someone have a clearer pic?? 

September 6, 1999

Today, actor, producer and director Rakesh Roshan turns 75. Rakesh Roshan acted in one of my all-time favourite films, Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Khoobsurat. And a film he made that flopped but I loved was Khel, His innings as an actor may not have reached the levels of say a Rajesh Khanna, Jeetendra or even Rishi Kapoor, but as producer/director he's in a league of his own - catapulted by the launch and birth of an overnight superstar 2000, Hrithik Roshan. All his films with "Duggu" have been smash successes. Now the world awaits Krrish 4. 

Boney Kapoor's critique of his own film, Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja: "I knew we had drastically gone wrong..."

Above: Boney Kapoor (film producer), Sridevi (leading lady), Anil Kapoor (actor) and Satish Kaushik (film director) at the last schedule of Roop ki Rani... 

Below: Baba Azmi (cinematographer), Anil Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Shekhar Kapur, Sridevi and Boney Kapoor at the first schedule of Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja.

Boney Kapoor, "I was sure that Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja would bomb even while it was being made, I knew we had gone drastically wrong. I actually wanted to shelve it. I told Anil that we were making another Razia Sultan. But nobody was ready to listen to me. They said that Amitabh Bachchan sent a truckload of flowers to Sridevi after seeing the rushes, every word of praise was repeated to me. Eventually, I got carried away. I became indulgent, and expenses mounted because I wanted to have one major highlight in every reel The result was a series of highlights, put together without a soul."
-- Filmfare, January 2000

Above: The last day of shoot for the epic Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja; choreographer Chinni Prakash, producer Boney Kapoor, leading lady Sridevi, hero Anil Kapoor, cinematographer Baba Azmi and film director Satish Kaushik. 

Sridevi's over-the-top costumes by Neeta Lulla. 

Boney Kapoor looks on as gorgeous Sridevi sari shops

 Boney Kapoor looks on as gorgeous Sridevi sari shops 

TBT to past Eid: Boney Kapoor and Sridevi head to Shahrukh Khan's house

TBT to past Eid: Boney Kapoor and Sridevi head to Shahrukh Khan's house. 

Sridevi in a beige chiffon sari with ivory embroidery looked exquisite - a Sabyasachi creation. More images in the archive here. 
 

Christmas Eve: A time to be with family: A look at Sridevi with her family over the years

 Christmas Eve: A time to be with family: A look at Sridevi with her family over the years 

On film, and behind the scenes: Sridevi and Anil Kapoor with the crew of Mr.India

Above: Boney Kapoor (film producer), Shekhar Kapur (director), Sridevi, Anil Kapoor and Baba Azmi (cinematographer) 
 

On film, and behind the scenes: Sridevi and Anil Kapoor with the crew of Mr.India 

Sridevi with Boney Kapoor over the years: Producer and actress to Husband and Wife

 Sridevi with Boney Kapoor over the years: Producer and actress to Husband and Wife