Tuesday 2 November 2010

Cover girl: Sridevi in white: Star & Style: Dec 1988

Sridevi's cover shoot for Star & Style. 
December, 16-29, 1988 - Rs 6! 

Title tag: Intimately yours, Sreedevi 

Everything about this reeks of the '80s - the glossy makeup, the turban, the fake curls, the satin dress... and yet, Sridevi manages to look pretty darn gorgeous!

The magazine closed shop in the 1990s - but not before a multi-crore lawsuit against that was filed against the publication by Aishwarya Rai. They wrote, as they were wont to, some unflattering allegations about her personal life and she dragged them to court - and won!

When magazines used to write rubbish about Sridevi, Sridevi opted to ignore it and ban interviews. Especially in the thick of 1980s, many film magazines just wrote unverified crap all the live-long day. Sadly, many chose to believe it too.  

For keen observers, the look is entirely from a song/dream sequence from the film Naaka Bandi - a much delayed film that began shooting in 1988 and finally released in 1990! 







Dharmendra and Sridevi


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