Lamhe - Movie Review: G magazine: "Sridevi is the most versatile actress today"

Sridevi from 'Moments of Rage' from Lamhe. Too brilliant. Acting, dancing, expression, movement. She's too damn good.

g magazine's review, editor Bhawana Somaya's take:

Sridevi in Lamhe (1991)

If anyone has the slightest doubt that Sridevi is the most versatile star-actress on the scene today, he just needs to see Lamhe. As Pallavi, the daughter of a Rajasthani thakur, she exudes a mature charm, a love for life. Yet, the hidden longing for her beloved is reflected in those luminous eyes in a split second.

But it's as Pooja that she completely bewitches you. She is vivacious, exuberant and irrepressibly bubbly 18-year-old. That's the role Sridevi seems to love to play the best. The child in her surfaces immediately, be it in a restrained way in Sadma or as the street-smart prankster in Chaalbaaz. Her movements are fluid and slick in the song and dance sequences, especially in the aerobics number done to release her anger and humiliation on being spurned by the man she loves. Her sense of the comic, which is given ample scope in the medley sequence, is superb. In the emotional scenes too, her eyes instantly convey the hurt she is so easily prone to. Her films may flop at the box-office but Sridevi is surely a hit.

UPDATE: Sridevi photos from the sets of Lamhe, behind the scenes of Moments of Rage. 

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Rekha and Sridevi: Rekha pops in on the sets of Mr.India

Rekha and Sridevi on the sets of the film Mr. India.  Another gem from the archives.

A fan online had a look at Sridevi's outfit and said - isn't that from Kate Nahin Kat the? Why yes it is! 


Plus other fav Rekha pics from the past. One of the most photogenic and photographed faces in India, Rekha is every cameraman's delight. An iconic beauty and actress, Rekha currently has the title of being the greatest unemployed Indian actress alive. Hmm. Think about it... So much talent, skill, beauty, knowledge, history... and yet she isn't employed in movies. 

Jaya Prada and Sridevi at a party at Jeetendra's house: Rare photos

Ah the Bollywood ladies of the 80s seated together;  Padmini Kolhapure, Poonam Dhillon, Jaya Prada and Sridevi. With an occasional pop of Jeetendra to really booze up this Bollywood cocktail!

But as the series of images show, all cameras were pointed at arch rivals Jaya Prada and Sridevi, the former let her uncensored opinions let loose in several media outlets over the years. Sridevi preferred to keep a far more dignified silence on the topic of competition and rivalry (she was famously pitted against all her contemporaries from Radha, Rekha, Hema Malini, Dimple Kapadia and any leading lady of her time).

So much speculation on the two Southern sensations and their thinly-gossamer-veiled rivalry! The media played it up heaps - we have several magazine covers and bold-faced headlines screaming about which actress hated the other... Wonder if it helped sales of the rags and magz....the pre-internet phase of click bait.



I don't know what party this is but wow! To gather all these lovely ladies together and get them on the same couch.  Must have been a Jeetendra party - as all the women in these pics have co-starred with him and he's the only male star in the mix!

Half the pic above is real, the bottom half is fake... 

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Sridevi, Jeetendra and Jaya Prada

Sreelatha (Sridevi's youngest sister) with Sridevi 

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Jaya Prada, Sridevi and Sridevi's aunt (actress Maheshwari's mother)

Sridevi with Salman Khan in Chandra Mukhi (1993)

Pics from the sets of Chandra Mukhi (1993). Sridevi with Salman Khan and the cast and crew of the film.

This children's fantasy film - written by Salman Khan no less - was an expensive and colossal flop.

The cast looked gorgeous, the music was decent, had well-shot songs but... it didn't work in any measure as a movie. With shoddy direction by a new director and editing that bordered on the bizarre, the film took a drumming at the box-office and by critics. 

Sridevi did the film upon request by Salman Khan (who was and remains a huge fan). On paper, it could have worked - Sridevi has done several fantasy films and costume dramas in the 1980s and early 90s (in Telugu and Tamil films) that were box-office smashes.

Both stars acknowledged later that the movies didn't work and Sridevi said in an interview that she got a lot of flak for her movies with Salman from her fans. Oddly enough, via the Facebook Fan Club, we have feedback from Europe and the Americas where there are in fact fans of this movie - fans who saw the film when they were young and liked it! Go figure.... 

Sadly, that's not going to be remembered - only the sad tally at the box office will. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.