Breaking News: Publisher, Editor and Writer Pritish Nandy is No More: RIP To a Media Mogul!
For Sridevi fans, the former editor of Filmfare means a lot. After all, Pritish Nandy was the first to call young Sridevi, who was barely 21, the Number One actress of India in a Filmfare cover story. It was the summer of 1984, Filmfare was Rs 3 and published twice a month! Ah, the glory days of film magazine mania when there was no other recourse for Bollywood fanatics, except tabloids and film magz. At a time when Hema Malini, Rekha, Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi were still around, new-to-Bombay Sridevi was labelled "Unquestionably No.1" in July of '84! She was a month shy of turning 21!
As he wrote on Twitter back in 2018, "In 1984 when Filmfare was ailing, I was asked to take over as Editor. My first issue had #Sridevi on the cover, headlined No 1. She was not. Not yet. The issue sold out. Filmfare was back. And in six months everyone acknowledged her as No 1."
Sad day for Indian media, one of its icons is no more. RIP good Sir.
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