First name only: Kajol, Rekha, Sridevi: Our Cher, Madonna, Beyonce

From the early days of Bollywood, we've had mononymously famous actress, Nargis, Nutan, Madhubala... to Rekha, Sridevi, Kajol...  

mononym 

mon-uh-nim

ˈmɒn ə nɪm / noun 

The name of a person who has or is known by only one name, usually a given name without a surname. 

Example: "... Bajans know her as Robyn Fenty, but she is known in the rest of the world by her mononym, Rihanna...."

Sridevi on the cover of Chitralekha: April 1994: Portraits by Gautam Rajadhyaksha

Sridevi on the cover of Chitralekha: April 1994: Portraits by Gautam Rajadhyaksha

Images below were originally published in Cine Blitz.  

Star & Style: Sridevi and Rishi Kapoor in 1989!

 

The Sridevi centrefold: Cine Blitz's spread in 1989

 

oh the 80s prom dress! A look from Chaalbaaz. Sridevi rockin' out.

Sridevi in the 1980s in Bollywood

The over edit by AI apps... it sort of looks like Sridevi... but it isn't.

The original series are in the archive here - newspaper scans and old magazine images unrestored, but at least it is Sridevi - instead of images that sort of look like her... but are not.

Grok and Gemini image edits is good, just not perfect.  

Sridevi and Sreelatha Grok'd! Sridevi with her only sister

A photo not frequently seen, Sreelatha, Sridevi's only sister, with Sridevi in their Chennai mansion in the mid 1980s. 

Originally published in Cine Blitz magazine, it was a rare insight to the private life of Sridevi back home. 
 

Sridevi as a bride in Jaag Utha Insan (1984)

The trouble with Ai-- be it Gemini, Grok or what have you -- is that when it does image corrections, it overcorrects to the point of non-recognition. Unless the prompt is just right and accurate, and done without laze and constant edit that reverts to the original face of the star, it looks like an alternate cousin. of the original. But not the original.

The above image was a newspaper scan, and colour corrected and restored by Gemini.