Gauri Shinde's quotes about the late Sridevi

Some of our fav quotes about Sridevi from writer and director Gauri Shinde, who brought the actress back on screen after a 15 year hiatus in the much loved film, English Vinglish (2012).

“My meeting with Sridevi for the first time was like going on a blind date as I had never met her before. I was nervous and I looked at myself in the mirror to check whether I was looking decent. When I met her, I was strangely at ease. There was something so warm about her. She was just so normal, lovely and something connected immediately. I had this positive feeling that this date might go well. When I started narrating her the script, throughout the narration, she was so instinctive, genuine and everything that I would have liked her to be. By the end of that first date, I had a feeling that both of us would want to go on our second date. There was instant chemistry, instant love and it is rare and it was too special.”

 "She was an amazingly sensitive, supremely intuitive, loving, caring, funny, childlike superstar, but she was my very own Shashi"

“I enjoyed the whole process of working with her. We got along so well, we understood each other so well. I think what connected us was our ability to express ourselves through anything but work. She had such a great sense of humour, which was why she could be so funny on screen. Through the working of this film, we had so many amusing moments that we laughed like little girls and when it was time for work, she would change so effortlessly and she was in her character. So it was so fascinating to watch someone just transform in a few minutes from this smiling person in private to this diva on screen.”

“I would have loved to make a film with her every month or every year, if it was possible, but for someone like her, you had to have an amazing subject, you had to do justice to a star that she was."

"Yes, I was planning something with her. In my head, she was always like a parallel track and I was always thinking what can I do with her and there was a plan, but before I could say pack up, she left and that’s unfortunate.”

Quotes from feature in Time of India here.

Read earlier feature with Gauri Shinde here.