Sridevi started acting at a tender age, often in mythological films as a divine phenomena. With her gorgeous cherub face, expressive eyes, ease on camera, she was born to play roles in costume dramas - which she did often as a child artist.
Not only did she start acting in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films as Lord Muruga, or Lord Krishna, she began showing acting chops and a proclivity for a non-stop work ethic that would be astounding, and impossible today -- heck, child-labour laws wouldn't allow it!
It also started the trend of inaccurate information and images - of which we are also guilty of. In earlier post, we were misinformed and therefore wrong in publishing and broadcasting herem that the images of Sridevi in Kumara Sambhavam were of Thunaivan - both films released a few months apart in 1969!
Since a well-informed viewer corrected us, we've amended the page - but not before damage was done. Now there are other sites that have taken this misinformation and its gone viral. We've seen the ripples go far and wide as TV shows, film channels have taken the wrong film image and credited it with another.
Sigh..
So here's a correct chronology of young Sridevi, as a child artist, from her initial batch of films. From her first baby steps as a child artist, age six, in her first-ever film, the Tamil classic, Thunaivan (1969) onwards. Or so we thought...
In an interview, Sridevi stated that she first started acting at the age of four. Sridevi was born in August of 1963. The film Thunaivan started production in 1967, and the film released on 4 July 1969 - when Sridevi was still five-years-old! This is where date, month and year of release suddenly becomes important when you're trying to have the most comprehensive - and accurate - site dedicated to an Indian icon!
Now to get even more confusing, in TV interviews, Sridevi often said she played Lord Muruga in her first film Thunaivan which released in 1969. However, the Tamil costume drama Kandhan Karunai released in 1967 and you can clearly see young Sridevi in the movie. She might have forgotten the chronology of her own films as she was but a child... and who keeps track of dates and times at that age?!
We also noticed in a TV interview Sridevi says that her first Hindi film appearance was in Julie (1975), when in fact, Sridevi appeared briefly, as a child artist, years before in the Hindi film Rani Mera Naam in 1972!
Our attempts to illustrate and list in chronological order, Sridevi's staggering filmography with absolute accuracy continues.... Slowly!
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| Jayalalithaa with young Sridevi in the Tamil film Kandhan Karunai (1967) |
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| Sridevi, 5, as a child artist in her first Tamil film Thunaivan (1969) |
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| Sridevi, 6. in her first Malayalam film Kumara Sambhavam (1969) |
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| Sridevi, 9, in the Tamil film Agathiyar (1972) |
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| Sridevi, 12, as a child-artist in the Telugu film Yashoda Krishna (1975) |
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