Thursday 13 October 2022

Sridevi in Satyavan Savithri (1977)

 One of the many films she did with co-star Kamal Haasan, here's Sridevi striking a pose in the Malayalam film Satyavan Savithri (1977). 

The film was also dubbed into Tamil with the same title and into Telugu as Sathyavanthudu

Sridevi was all of 14 when she played the title role - well, half the title role! 

Based on a chapter taken from the epic Mahabharata

Haven't seen the film and know very little about it. The only part that comes to mind is a tale Sridevi said on a Tamil show back in 2012. It was the early days and Sridevi hadn't perfected the art of grooming and styling on screen. With a little peach fuzz on her face, Kamal Haasan quipped, the film should have been named Satyavan Sardarji

Before the internet and twats on twitter go after him (again!), Sridevi took it in good spirit and laughed it off years later on the show. The anecdote she brought up decades later on the show - had she been mortally offended or hurt, she wouldn't have relayed it on television. 

Unlike new gen, she wasn't a snowflake. 



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