Sridevi, Rani Mukerji and Lata Mangeshkar: Backstage of Screen Awards

 

Happy Birthday Rani Mukerji. 

Sridevi used to call her her "ladoo" and they were very close friends - we have a huuuuuuge archive of image of Sridevi with Rani Mukerji over the years here.

This is backstage from Screen Awards - circa 1998/1999. Just after Sridevi gave birth to Jhanvi Kapoor. 

Sridevi, Rani, Rekha!! 

Rani Mukherjee with Sridevi

TBT: Rani getting smooched by Sri - there's an adorable clip on youtube of this whole biz, as Rani was leaving Manish Malhotra's house after the designer hosted a mini party for Sridevi at his lavish residence.

Sridevi with... other actresses! Aruna Irani, Rekha, Rani Mukherjee, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, Deepika Padukone

Sridevi with... other actresses! Aruna Irani, Rekha, Rani Mukherjee, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, Deepika Padukone

Sridevi at Zee Cine Awards with Karan Johar and Rani Mukherjee

It was the year of Black - and of course the film picked up every imaginable award. Sridevi presented the Best Actress award to the sure-fire win that was Rani's magical performance. When she won the award, she said to Sridevi, "I grew up wanting to be an actress watching you..."

Karan Johar asked Sridevi to join him on the couch for his chat show Koffee with Karan - it never happened.

Not sure how it would be received - Johar's questions and style slid quickly from a witty, elegant take to vulgar gossip and slander. From the elevated highs of the early seasons to punching down after... 

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All-star turnout at Adira Chopra's 2nd Birthday Bash: Yash Chopra's leading ladies turn out in mass; Sridevi, Rekha, Karishma Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor

Adira Chopra - daughter of producer/director Aditya Chopra and actress Rani Mukherjee, had her second birthday over the weekend and a party was hosted by Rani for her first-born. The star-studded invitation list would be the envy of any media house. Among the many glitterati who turned up to celebrate the scion of Yash Raj, were the banner's greatest heroines; Sridevi, Rekha, Karishma Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Raveena Tandon. Also among the glamazons were Shilpa Shetty and Karan Johar - who brought his surrogate twins Yash and Roohi. In fact, many stars brought their children as their plus one - Kareena brought her baby boy Taimur, Sridevi accompanied her youngest daughter Khushi and Shilpa brought her son too.

Conspicuously missing from all the pics released by all the stars who attended, the baby of the hour - Adira Chopra! Like her notoriously press-shy father, no images of the youngest Chopra were leaked online.

Dec 2017

Epic Bollywood Diva Line-up at Sridevi's Birthday: Manish Malhotra hosts dinner to honour Sridevi: India's A-list turns up to celebrate

Manish Malhotra hosted a private dinner in honour of Sridevi's 54th birthday and invited... every single major actress in town. On August 13, Sridevi had a very private family dinner with her husband and daughters. A few days after Sri's birthday, Manish did the honours of hosting a soiree of his own for Sri.

He posted the above pic along with the caption:  #AtHome @karanjohar and Me with all these Fabulous Iconic women #TinaAmbani #ShabanaAzmi #Rekha @sridevi.kapoor #AishwaryaRaiBachan #RaniMukerjee @balanvidya #unforgettable #Night

Epic.

Above: Rare pic, director Gurinder Chadha [Bend it Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice] with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sridevi

More images from last night's party as Sridevi showers kisses on Boney Kapoor... and Rani! =0)

When a Rani met a Queen: Sridevi with Rani Mukherjee

Though there are innumerable clips of Rani Mukherjee praising other Indian actresses, she hasn't shied away from acknowledging her love for Sridevi over the years. 

Be it at Zee awards when she said she became an actress watching Sridevi or in clips such as this and this. 

Here's a recent pic of Rani Mukherjee with Sridevi at last week's Lakme Fashion Week where she ran into the former queen of Bollywood at Sabyasachi's show. A cute moment for a selfie, the two leading ladies of Bollywood look fantastic.

Rani Mukherjee with Sridevi

Gorgeous! The best actors of their generation, the divine Sridevi with lovely Rani.

A beautiful tribute to Yash Chopra: Madhuri Dixit, Rani Mukherjee and Sridevi

To mark late filmmaker Yash Chopra's birthday, his leading ladies will walk the ramp at a special event.

Madhuri Dixit, Rani Mukherjee and Sridevi...

Wow!!

Sridevi with Rani Mukherjee, Neha Dhupia and others

Sridevi with generation next of actresses. Even among this crowd of 20 and 30 somethings, she stands tall and proud and quite frankly more beautiful than the gamut put together.

2013   

Neha Dhupia, Sridevi and Rani Mukherjee

Amisha Patel, Neha Dhupia, Sridevi, Rani and others

Empress of Indian Cinema: Sridevi collecting yet another award and title

Producer Boney Kapoor said Saturday his wife-cum-actor Sridevi truly deserves to be honored with the title "Empress of Indian cinema", adding nobody else in the industry deserves the award more than her.

"I think she truly deserves the award. She is most definitely an empress of Indian cinema. I don't think anybody else deserves the award more than her. I'm extremely happy for her," said Boney Kapoor, at the TSR-TV9 national film awards.

 

"I'm extremely grateful for this award. It's definitely an honor to be bestowed upon with such an award and I'm extremely happy about it," said Sridevi.

 Instituted by T. Subbarami Reddy (TSR) in collaboration with TV9, the TSR-TV9 national film awards were honoring artists from Telugu industry for the year 2011-12.

Members from Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam industries along with Bollywood were also honored under special jury awards. All awardees were handpicked by a committee comprising of veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, lyricist C. Narayana Reddy, legendary producer D. Rama Naidu, singer P. Suseela, actor-politician Jayasudha and Shobana Kamineni, director of Apollo Hospitals Group. Boney Kapoor went on to win "Star Producer of the Millennium" award.

Dozens of amazing snaps of Sridevi here.