Excerpt from The Man Who Loved Women: Yash Chopra and His Leading Ladies; former Filmfare editor Khaled Mohamed recounts, "Without her both Chandni and Lamhe are unimaginable, and are arguably among her best Bollywood super scorers. On her passing away earlier this year [2018], Chandni was streaming all over the OTT platforms. The piece de resistance there, is of course, the semi-classical tandav performed in a white Amrapali costume by a Swiss lakeside.
In Lamhe, it was the difficult dual role, which like Gulzar’s Mausam earlier, was considered shocking because of its incestuous connotations. It didn’t click on its release, and yes now it’s a cult, with Sridevi rocking the Rajasthani courtyards and the dune scapes from the first frame to the last."
More at The Quint.
Below: Sridevi and Vinod Khanna being directed by Yash Chopra on the sets of Chandni back in 1989.
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