Sunday, 26 June 2011

Sridevi in Judaai (1997): Working Mums: Rare pics of Sridevi with Urmila Matondkar and Anil Kapoor

From Rediff's feature on working mums.

Blessed with two beautiful daughters, Jhanvi and Khushi, Sridevi was a top star during her first pregnancy; no wonder when news spread that she's expecting, producers went into a tizzy. She did complete full portions of her husband Boney Kapoor's production, Judaai and refused to take on further work, in the wake of which she lost out on plum projects.

When she was carrying Khushi, 11 now, she had already taken a break from movies but nevertheless she would accompany Boney on his shoots, especially on Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai.

A heavily-pregnant Sridevi even helped her family move to a new bungalow at the time and actually supervised everything.

From Rediff.com



UPDATE: Sridevi, Urmila and Anil Kapoor, the cast of Judaai in publicity stills published in the local tabloids.

Sridevi, Anil Kapoor and Urmila Matondkar made Judaai so much fun to watch; an irrepressible soap opera on screen, a dramedy, a morality tale, leads with tinctures of unlikability (all three such flawed characters). Elevated by the talents of the stellar cast, a pretty basic storyline and screenplay became high camp, farce - and yet so much fun. 

The movie made an unexpected killing at the box-office back in 1997 as the Khan trifecta had taken over Bollywood by then and little was expected from these gifted but unsteady box-office staples; Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and director Raj Kanwar!  This was Urmila's first Hindi film after the runaway success of Rangeela. She looked lovely in all her Manish Malhotra designed ensembles and an ever-graceful dancer; she really stepped it up. Her star wattage could not be denied... and the fans hollered and screamed for her in her song and dance routines. As a performance well... its all Sridevi we remember now. Even Anil Kapoor, an otherwise capable actor, doesn't fare better in an underserved part. 

Anil Kapoor's career has generally been a mixed bag of movies from day one; some he did for the performance, others for money, some for friends and some for potential, others for posterity. Funnily enough, in most of his home productions, he let others grab glory. For range, the year he had a blockbuster Ram Lakhan, he had the performance-based Eeshwar, for every Abhimanyu, he had Parinda. Unstoppable.   


 

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