Saturday, 8 March 2025

Beautiful Sridevi in Naaka Bandi

Sridevi looks sooooo beautiful in the God-awful movie Naaka Bandi. Believe it or faint, it was the 11th biggest hit of 1990, fueled by the star wattage of Dharmendra, who has a surprising lot of blockbusters to his credit but most that go unrecognised or acknowledged as huge successes. Truth is, they were mostly oddball films that were successful with the masses, but not the critics. While, Naaka Bandi is a prime example of such a hit, so is Hukumat, which was a bigger hit that Mr. India in 1987, but not many contemporary audiences can remember anything about it. 

While many stake their claim they fell in love with Sridevi when they saw Sadma, Mr.India, Chandni, Lamhe... all the way to English Vinglish, I was nuts for Sridevi after this terrible, terrible film. I remember distinctly positing this absurd theory; if she's so good in a bad film, imagine how great she'd be in a good one?! The hypothesis stands!

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