Boney Kapoor and Sridevi's BIG announcement: She's having a baby! TBT to 1997: First photoshoot together

For months, if not years, there was such tremendous interest and speculation by the Indian media, and indeed Sridevi fans, on the relationship between film producer Boney Kapoor and the superstar actress Sridevi. Finally, the two posed together, did an interview with Filmfare and Stardust scribes and cleared the air and misconceptions, confirming their controversial relationship, marriage and pending child.

Now, years after this stop-the-press 1997 shoot and feature, Sridevi fans are glad that she's found peace, love and joy at long last after spending 88% of her entire life (at the time) as a working actress. Over 200+ films spanning 30 years - she was no slouch! If anyone deserved a break, a life beyond scrutiny, prying eyes, idle gossip and the paparazzi, it was Sridevi. 

She found family and children, a home life at the Kapoor household. 

Sridevi and Boney Kapoor's first portraits together

Whatever the circumstances have been...

March 1997, Filmfare feature below!

"I'm lucky to get a husband like Boney."
- Sridevi

For months and months, Boney Kapoor had said that he would talk when the time was right... and the time as it turned out was January 1997.

At a crowded press conference in Chennai, it was officially declared that, yes indeed, Sridevi and Boney Kapoor had married on June 2 (1996) last year in Mumbai's Shirdi Saibaba Mandir.

After playing hide-and-seek with the Mumbai press, matters obviously came to such a point that silence was no longer golden.

The announcement was jump-started by a report in a Tamil daily which stated that Boney and Sridevi had tied the knot at a wedding ceremony organised at the Chennai residence of Tamil actor Vijaykumar. It seems that was off the mark... and things had to be clarified. 

Images from the press meet in earlier post here.