Sridevi's birthday month

Sridevi's birth anniversary coming up later this month... 

Thumbs up! 

Sridevi on the red carpet. 

 

Sridevi's final post on Instagram: February 22, 2018

The last look of Sridevi; wearing Manish Malhotra 

Sridevi with her sister Sreelatha and her family.

 

Sridevi and Janhvi Kapoor at The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion week: Anamika Khanna: 2018

Feb 4, 2018, Sridevi and Janhvi Kapoor attended Lakme Fashion week. Both wore Anamika Khanna and the fashionable mother and daughter duo stunned. 

Sridevi looked so regal... well, she was the Queen of Bollywood after all. 

 

The last days of Sridevi: Pretty in pink

The last days of Sridevi: Pretty in pink... 

Sridevi 2.0 was just roaring to go... alas, cruel fate had other plans... 

Sridevi with her sister in law Reena. 

Sridevi with Anil Kapoor... 

February 2018. 

 

Neil Nitin Mukesh bows down to Bollywood Queen Sridevi

 

Neil Nitin Mukesh bows down to Bollywood Queen Sridevi. What a sweet gesture. Even Sridevi's blushing. 

TBT To Jan 2018. 

Neil Nitin Mukesh was - like many in his gen - a fan. 

The last few pics of Sridevi alive: Feb 21 and 22 - 2018

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

 The last few pics of Sridevi alive: Feb 21 and 22 - 2018

Think Pink: Pretty as a picture Sridevi: 1980s to 2018

Think Pink: Pretty as a picture Sridevi: 1980s to 2018

Tina Ambani (nee Munim) with Sridevi

Tina Ambani (nee Munim) with Sridevi

The last days of Sridevi: A visual depiction of Sridevi's final public appearances and looks in 2018

 

The last days of Sridevi: A visual depiction of Sridevi's final public appearances and looks in 2018...  

Indian actress, icon, wife, mother-of-two, superstar Sridevi was attending film screenings, award-shows, performing on stage, laughing in the audience of Bollywood live shows, attending weddings, walking the red carpet, seen out with her family, husband, children, attending a family function and wedding and then... the screen fades to black. 

When news first broke of Sridevi's death on Feb 18, it seemed absurd when, just hours before, the actress herself had posted a self portrait in Dubai, looking like the regal cine-legend that she was. Imperious yet approachable, a towering figure yet so humble, so full of life and then...  

On the eve of what would have been a landmark year in Sridevi's life, her 60th birth anniversary (Aug 13), here's looking back on the last days of an Indian empress... of screen. 

A life cut far too short, at 54 Sridevi's "soul left her mortal coil,"--if we are to follow Hindu rites of passage-- through accidental drowning. When someone so larger-than-life met with sudden death, a barrage of bat-shit conspiracy theories have let loose including criminal accusations, sensationalism and the bottom-of-the-barrel TRP rating hungry television coverage of a human tragedy that was so blown-out-of-proportion and so badly televised, it required several other stars of her ilk to 'let her rest in peace.' 

There still lives a 'justice for Sridevi' slogan left in the relics of Twitter, but the true justice we seek is 1) to find the criminal who leaked images of Sridevi's body to the press/internet 2) the instigators who spread false stories and theories about the actress and her beloved family for personal gain (viewership numbers are pathologically addictive). 

If Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan's daughter Aradhya can sue internet trolls for false stories, then the Kapoor/Ayappan family should too, but perhaps they do want to simply move on from a national tragedy that was personal to them. 

Truth of the matter is fans, with the best of intentions inflated sadness to anger and wanted a culprit, someone to blame other than fate for what happened. They are still looking for one, while casting aspersions on many. This hunt defies logic and science, reason and, legality. 

Sadly, we-the collective we of fandom-were not ready to let her go so swiftly when, despite hundreds of film appearances in a resplendent film career like no other on the planet, we just couldn't get enough of Sridevi. 

This is not hyperbola. I cannot think of a global star who had a career parallel to hers; well, perhaps Elizabeth Taylor. A child star, who went on to teen idol status, to rising pan-national phenomenon, to award-winning actress, to living legend by the age of 34! With equal command over the box-office and critical review, known for looks, talent and ability, Liz and Sri lived parallel lives spanning decades, but continents and timelines apart. 

But Liz Taylor lived till the ripe age of 79, Sridevi's departure at 54 seemed unbearably young. Alas, alas, alas... 

She lives on in the hearts and minds of film fans and in perpetuity on film. The legacy lives on, if not the legend. 

Sridevi: 1963-2018: Indian Actress: Icon: Legend.

The last days and final hours of Sridevi: The video clip

 

Breaks our heart... Sridevi. What an extraordinary life. And death.

Remembering her today on what would have been Sridevi's 59th birthday. 

Happy Birthday Sridevi - wherever you are... 

Sridevi watching herself: Meta: Sridevi watching Sridevi

 

Sridevi as a child artist: Sridevi reflects. 

In an early interview Sridevi said there are dozens of her own films she has never seen - and when a movie comes up on cable and its her film, even she'd get surprised. Too cute. 

The last days of Sridevi...

Reflecting on all of Sridevi's 'looks' in 2018 (almost) chronologically...

Every Sridevi sighting in the year 2018, at events, leaving the gym, in her car, at the airport, at movie premieres, at fashion shows; she was the quintessential superstar, living her larger than life, life... And then... 
 

Still breaks our heart when we see these images.... 

It was going to be an epic year... 2018 was meant for exciting projects, new ventures. Rumours were floating that she had met Gauri Shinde to discuss their next project after English Vinglish [not a sequel as reported by retards]. There was conversation in the mix of a potential collab with Netflix India, the multi-star cast film with Dharma Productions, a film with Kamal Haasan, a 25th film with her favourite Telugu film producer and director K. Raghavendra Rao. A reunion with Chiranjeevi. A film with daughter Janhvi Kapoor. Another film produced by Boney Kapoor... So many ideas were percolating all with Sridevi in the epicentre. 

Even after appearing in 250+ films, there was so much more to the saga of Sridevi - before the chapter closed so unexpectedly. 

Such a tragedy. Such a huge loss... 

It's been four years, but we think of you daily Sridevi.