Remembering Sridevi's first Hindi film: Solva Saawan! With co-star Amol Palekar who is 80!

I know of very few people who have seen Sridevi's first Hindi film as a leading lady, the notorious flop Solwa Saawan which released back in the day on 22 January 1979! 

With co-star, the fine actor/now director Amol Palekar who was 19 years older than her, When Sridevi was working in the film, she was 15 and the movie was a remake of Bharathiraja's own Tamil film 16 Vayathinile (1977), which also starred Sridevi. Solwa Saawan had great music and decent performances across the board but only remembered for the distinction that it marked Sridevi's debut as a leading lady in Hindi cinema following an already successful and established career in South Indian cinema spanning Tamil and Telugu films (and somewhat in Malayalam). Unlike the original, the film was a critical and commercial failure which Sridevi spoke of briefly, and she had the utmost respect and admiration for her senior co-star Amol Palekar, who just turned 80 last November.  

Both Amol and Sridevi spoke well of each other - as icons recognise each other!