Sridevi and Jeetendra had a phenomenal start together in 1983, churning out one hit after another, by 1984, as Tohfa quickly turned into a blockbuster, it was almost a guarantee their movies did great business.
All the tricks of the trade you hear of now, marketing strategies, having song highlights (which later morphed into 'item numbers'), corporate bookings (except it was called something else back then), toying with the media... Jeetendra created the blueprint for Bollywood and box-office success.
'84 was also the years serious movies like Saransh, Ketan Mehta's Holi, the films that got all the good press... but the moneymakers were Jeetendra's movies with his regular roller desk of interchangeable heroines like Jaya Prada, Rekha, Reena Roy, Bhanu Priya etc.
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