Wednesday 1 April 2020

Southern Belle: Sridevi

Sridevi, portraits by the late great Gautam Rajadhyaksha. Shot exclusively for Cine Blitz in her Madras home (before it turned to Chennai!). Sridevi in a classic south Indian attire.

Though she lived in Mumbai for the last two decades of her all-too-short life, she remained close to her roots; she had curd rice, sambar and rasam regularly, A.R.Rehman's Tamil albums played incessantly at home, she remained fond of her Kanjeevarams and classic South Indian ensembles and see any interview of hers, the comfort and fluency she had in Tamil or Telugu was in another league.

Sivakasi's Sridevi went far from home, but she always came back.


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