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The most comprehensive fan blog dedicated to India's most beautiful and greatest actress of all-time (in our humble opine!), Sridevi. Sridevi aka Sreedevi, ruled Indian cinema (with awesome performances in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films) in a career spanning 50 incredible years featuring 266 films. Born in Sivakasi on August 13 1963, her untimely and tragic death on February 24, 2018 left a nation in mourning. In our hearts, she'll forever be, the eternal Queen of Bollywood.
Friday, 1 May 2026
7 of Sridevi’s Least Favourite Things (According to the Legend Herself): A Buzzfeed-y listicle
7. Doing TV serials
Sridevi straight-up said her TV stint wasn’t enjoyable at all. With little Khushi (just 2) and Janhvi (4) at home, waking up at 7am for long shoots at Film City left her exhausted. “Not my cup of tea,” she admitted.
6. Disco dancing & those wild on-screen outfits
She hated “wriggling” in outlandish clothes for dance numbers and only did it because it was her job. Fun fact: she had never been to a real disco in her life and was pretty sure she’d hate it anyway. Blame the crowds (and her conservative mom who wasn’t a fan either).
5. Her own short temper & violent outbursts
Sridevi openly confessed she could get so angry she’d break things and smash glasses. What triggered it most? Lack of discipline and people being late — especially if her breakfast wasn’t on time. (She kept it quiet around her dad though.
4. Negative fan reactions to her films
After Chandra Mukhi, she got major flak from fans who felt she was “wasted” in the project. Ouch.
3. Her debut Hindi film Solva Saawan
A total bad memory. She was bored repeating the same role from Tamil/Telugu versions, didn’t know Hindi, hated Bombay, missed Madras, and messed up the very first take (which she took as a superstitious bad omen). Secretly, she was relieved when it flopped because she thought she could go back home and quit!
2. School (and crowds in general)
As a child artiste, she loved the costumes and wigs but hated school. She was painfully shy and terrified of sitting in a classroom with strangers. That fear of crowds stuck with her even as an adult superstar.
1. Not having (or wanting) industry friends
Sridevi was famously reserved and shy — she had zero friends in the film industry (but also zero enemies!). She felt completely fulfilled with her family, called her sister her best friend, and had no interest in “chamchas” or fake people. She preferred staying in Madras after marriage over Bollywood socializing.
Classic Sridevi being her honest, introverted, no-nonsense self. The ultimate “I’m just here to work and go home to my family” icon.
Which one surprised you the most?
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PS: Every bit of the above list, filtered from all her interviews that we've carefully curated and archives here at the largest Sridevi site in the world wide web!
Ajith with Sridevi: Happy Birthday Ajith Kumar
The fine actor turns 55 today.
Seen here with Sridevi on the sets of the Tamil version of English Vinglish.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
Sridevi's first film with Sanjay Dutt wasn't Gumrah or Khuda Gawah: It was this 1984 flick + 10 Shelved Films of Sridevi!
A never-made/unreleased Bollywood film from the mid-1980s (announced around 1983–84, with a planned release in January 1984 according to the poster!).
With Producer: S.R. Productions (Madras), under the banner Godha, the main cast was supposed to have Sridevi, Sunil Dutt's son Sanjay Dutt and Raj Kapoor's youngest song Rajeev Kapoor! With director/screenplay writer S.A. Chandrashekhar, the film had maestros Laxmikant–Pyarelal for music, (common for many Sridevi films of that era). Thankfully... the movie was never made. S.A. Chandrashekhar might have made many successful Tamil films, but his Hindi films have all been pretty much awful; Jeevan Ki Shatranj (1993) - a remake of the Tamil film Rajanadai and Azaad Desh Ke Gulam (1993) - a remake of the Tamil film Sudhanthira Naattin Adimaigal come to mind!).
The Hindi film was promoted as a big multi-starrer with "Star Pairing of the Year" hype.
This was during Sridevi's peak commercial phase in Hindi cinema (post-Himmatwala, Tohfa, Mawaali, etc.), when she was frequently paired with top heroes - so these relative newcomers (and OG nepo babies!) seems like a surprise. The film was ultimately shelved and never completed or released - we don't know exactly what went down, hence it doesn't appear in standard filmographies, IMDb lists, or Wikipedia entries for Sridevi, Sanjay Dutt, or Rajeev Kapoor. There are several false-start or failed to finish movies in Sridevi's archive (in all Indian celebrities' in fact).
Old posters and announcements like this one occasionally surface on Instagram/Facebook fan pages (especially Sridevi tribute accounts), but there's no finished movie, songs, or features on many. There's a lot written about Garajna, Zameen, Sridevi's Telugu home production... and so on but on this film, we've found very little.
Sridevi and Sanjay Dutt actually did collaborate later (their only film together was the 1993 Mahesh Bhatt-directed, Yash Johar produced Gumrah, and a brief shoot during Khuda Gawah), but this earlier project fell through.
If you're a Sridevi fan, these "lost" posters are fun collector items from the era when she was dominating the industry with multiple releases per year. The hodge podge poster with cut outs from other films (I mean look at the image of Sanjay Dutt, and the Sridevi pic from her Tamil film Adutha Varisu, and Rajeev from another movie as well - the trio didn't even do a shoot together!).
Sridevi in the film Zameen
Sridevi's list of shelved films;
Jeetendra and Sridevi
As a businessman - part of 'show biz' - the most enduring, long-lasting career was that of Jeetendra. He hasn't been given his due for his contribution to Hindi cinema. The man was an industry onto himself; so many jobs, so many families, so many workers were employed because of his churning out of movies that the critics dismissed, but the masses loved.
A film unit comprises of nearly 200 people, think of the technicians, camera crew, lighting crew, spot boys, dancers, costume designers, makeup artists, catering, fashion team, along with the cast and crew of the film - that lengthy scroll of credits at the end of a movie, all those pople got a paycheck because of the success of formulaic feel-good movies Jeetendra led.
And some of those art-house films made on a shoe-string budget with minimal crew, that didn't change cinema as much as they would like to believe - or elevate the lives of the working people in industry. Making 12 critics happy and boring audiences, box-office figures were a stunning indictment of the art-house cinema movement.
It's easy to be dismissive of pop art and pop culture cinema, but lets list their merits too. It's equally easy to praise art films for the reflection on humanity, a slice of life in contemporary India...but let's also critique its slow pacing, its poor cinematography, its shoddy lighting! Was watching Bazaar the other day and the first painful minutes are just completely unnecessary shots of Smita Patil getting ready - a decent editor could have cut that to a few seconds. For the longest time was waiting for the story to kick off. And the dialogues were... well, who talks like that? Sure the film covered painful reality and subjects unspoken of, but as an entertainer, falls short. There are several documentaries that have faster pace and make the point in fewer minutes...
Today's rant ends here. Let's give Jeetendra his due credit. In local parlance, give him his flowers now. The man is 84. His legacy is feeding new stars and new gen till date. The seeds he planted that's become this television behemoth, Balaji, runs the kitchens of many a home.
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