Sridevi in classic 80s melodrama, the weepy Nazrana.
Before the television industry became this wildly oversaturated and oversubscribed behemoth, there were classic Bollywood melodramas, "women's picture" as the tag was in the early days. Sridevi, Rekha, Jaya Prada, Meenakshi all appeared in so many of them. The sari and sindoor weepy dramas with loads of songs and Jeetendra/Rishi Kapoor/Mithun...
While others were a bit more Sati-Savitri... Sridevi, provided the oomph factor, a cheeky sensuality that made her a top draw at the box-office... and criticism. Mind you, the sharpest arrows came from her competitors, be it Jaya Prada, or even an unkind word from Meenakshi, neither of them had the box-office power or success of Sri.
Well, all water under the bridge now as each have been singing praises of Sridevi in tear-eyed tributes. A mea culpa in hindsight... Hmm. But we don't forget.
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