Sridevi's family: Superstar Sridevi at home with her mother, father, sister and extended family

Sridevi's gorgeous family. Sister Sreelatha, father Ayyappan, mother Rajeshwari... and others. All the joint family colour pics shot by Gautam Rajadhyaksha for Cine Blitz magazine in the early 1990s. 

 

Let's do a quick fact and spell check here; Sridevi was born Ayappan Sreedevi. 

Her mother's name was Rajeshwari Reddy pre marriage. Post marriage, Ayappan Rajeshwari. 

 

Sridevi's father was a noted lawyer, Ayappan Naidu. 

 

Sridevi's only sibling was born Ayappan Sreelatha. Post-marriage, she's Sreelatha Sanjay Rangaswamy. 

 

Sreedevi post marriage was Sridevi Kapoor.  

Every other name attributed to Sridevi esp anything that says 'Sridevi was born Shree Amma Iyengar" is an absolute fallacy. The idiot writer in Bombay/Mumbai who first published that report in the early 1980s (either in Stardust or Star & Style - two magazines fueled by gossip and innuendo and zero fact checking), conflated the Iyer clan of Hema Malini with Sreedevi's. Sree was neither an Iyengar or a Malini but Ayappan. As she's famously said in televised interview's her mother tongue was Telugu but she was Tamil-born, aka Sivakasi-born Sreedevi, hence her fluency in both languages and cinema. Sridevi did more films in those than any other, though her earliest recognition and awards came in Kerala, from the Malyalam film industry. However, she only did about 25 Malayalam films at most (some were mere dubs of Tamil hits).

Film journalism in the early years ranked pretty low in the totem pole for the speculative nature of publishing without confirming facts. I take every quote, feature and interview from the 1980s especially with a bushel of salt. Thank God for video recordings in later years as we can at least get a few things confirmed on record. However, now with AI playing tricks, even that has become suspect.

Other images, from various sources.

Special thanks to Lakshmi Moorty for the pic of Sridevi with her younger sister Sreelatha.