Sridevi (1963): Sridevi of the saucer eyes has always been more at home with fall-down-funny farce (the Charlie Chaplin riff in Mr.India, the child-woman in Sadma, the beer guzzler in Chaalbaaz etc.) than with morbid meditations on human frailty. A long-standing No.1 and a brilliant actress, her on-screen verve and erotic energy lifts one over bumpy scripts as she extract juice even from pulp like Himmatwala, Tohfa, Nagina or Laadla.
Having slogged it out in 200 films (between 1977 and 1983 she did 14-15 Telugu and Hindi films every single year), she can now rest easy in the knowledge that from among her contemporaries, she has had the riches haul of meaningful roles.
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