Oh dear... this set of three books made me laugh. Lalita Iyer's book--Sridevi, Queen of Hearts--was the first release and she went for alacrity not accuracy. Nayak's book, the effort shows--and appreciated--but for us, The South Years was the most informative as we know so little on record about Sridevi's illustrious career in Tamil and Telugu cinema pre-Bollywood fame.
As followers of this blog know, along with Shobhaa De and Penguin India, I asked Sridevi if I could write a book on her - and she said No! So I never did. Posthumously, others have tried to profit from her legacy with little effect or consequence.
Before you point fingers at me, this now 25 year blog started as there were no sites with great pics of Sridevi back in 2000! Let me tell you, I've made ZERO money from this page. There are no ads, and no one has sponsored anything, we have no association with the Kapoors or Ayappans - its simply an archive of all things Sridevi.
Someone on Twitter asked me, "Who died and made you the Sridevi police?" Well, she did. And common sense makes me correct these alleged cine-illiterate writers who write pure fiction about Sridevi.
Wish Sridevi had done more interviews on record, on film so we really get to know as much of the real Sridevi as possible - not the fictionalised version of Sridevi that floats online and in print.
Sridevi. Forever a mystery, the aura lives on...
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