Saturday, 8 February 2025

Fact Check: Sridevi's filmography: 266 not 300 films!



So its a point of contention between hardcore Sridevi fans and... fact checkers! Without any qualifiers, a statement was released around the release of Mom that it was Sridevi's 300th film. Now, having worked with very strict editors - particularly the meticulous New York Times fact checkers - every figure and statement had to have verifiable evidence. Now when it comes to film journalism - particularly for bloggers and sound bytes on television - what sounds good is better than what facts are.

Fans have listed unreleased films, incomplete films, dubbed ones (as opposed to entirely re-made films like say Sadma or Tohfa and so on) to amp up the number for... no valid reason. We've - and I'm adding other reasonable, moderate, thinking Bollywood insiders, as opposed to blind fanatics - drawn up the list and its about 266 films released in cinemas over Sridevi's prolific 50-year career.

Starting with this and a few more - we're launching a category called Fact Check. So look out for more.

Indian media, particularly film journalism and television journalism - is hardly a paragon of verisimilitude and virtue. If anything came out during Sridevi's untimely and tragic passing, Indian television news is the absolute bottom-feeder in the hierarchy of journalistic standards, morals and ethics. Too many to list in the horrors they revealed when soooo many stars spoke out against the television trolls.





Teenage Sridevi in costume for Tamil Cinema

 Teenage Sridevi in costume for Tamil Cinema 

Anyone recognise the look? Which song/film/year?! 



Sridevi on set

Mid 1980s; Sridevi on set. 
 

Sridevi as a child-artist in the Telugu film Yashoda Krishna (1975)

Sridevi as a child-artist in the Telugu film Yashoda Krishna (1975)


Friday, 7 February 2025

Sridevi at the 35th Filmfare Awards 1990: Dazzling, shy, glorious, gorgeous Indian Actress




 

Sridevi at the 35th Filmfare Awards 1990: Dazzling, shy, glorious, gorgeous Indian Actress! With a double nomination for both Chandni and Chaalbaaz

Amitabh Bachchan presented Sridevi her trophy for the film Chaalbaaz, Poonam Dhillon was emcee that fateful evening. 
        

TBT: Sridevi and Juhi Chawla at a party together

At a dinner party hosted by industrialist and politician, T Subbarami Reddy, at hotel Taj in Colaba, Mumbai on February 7, 2010, all eyes were on Sridevi and Juhi Chawla as they met after long at the star-studded affair. Sridevi, who hasn't appeared on a film since 1997, was a vision in pink, looking as glamorous as ever. Juhi Chawla, who attended the event with her media-shy husband, industrialist Jai Mehta, said to the press that she was a Sridevi "super fan" and was thrilled to see her after long. Notoriously shy superstar Sridevi did not meet the media, but posed happily for the shutterbugs with husband Boney Kapoor. 
 -- Feb, 2010

 




Thursday, 6 February 2025

Sridevi and Jackie Shroff in Jawab Hum Denge

To be confirmed as I'm not sure about the exact date of release, but the net says Sridevi-Jackie Shroff starrer Jawab Hum Denge was released on 6 Feb, 1987. 

Not a particularly great film, but the movie had decent songs and Sridevi and Jackie Shroff were an unusual pair that looked good together. The movie had a lovely ghazal in it too.