The G magazine centrefold: Sridevi in technicolour

 

The original scan vs the Grok'd ai edited version of the image. They get a lot of it right.. but... something int he face they get it wrong.. It looks sort of like Sridevi, but not Sridevi... 

TBT: Sridevi's makeover in a magazine: 1980s fashion, styling and makeup!

Think this is Star & Style... Sridevi's fashion show in the magazine is sooooo evocative of the time these images were shot. The mid 1980s in Bollywood... 

The hair, the makeup, the clothes, the colours... 

Choices. 

 

Sridevi Rockin' her Star and Style

Now defunct, Star and Style was a filmy gossip rag that had centerfolds such as these. Believe it or not, its from the set of Chandni. If you go through the film, Sridevi appears in this look in a fleeting scene.

Everything about this look is so... 80s. Love it.

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Sridevi : The double page spread

 Most of these spreads from Filmfare in the 1980s and early 90s

Sridevi: The Last Empress: Filmfare Spread in the 1980s

 

SRIDEVI THE LAST EMPRESS

"I can't afford to do only quality films. That way I'd be able to do just 2-3 films a year."

SRIDEVI

The lady covered up her thighs but still she sold. Bumping and grinding her way through that blue-saree dance in Mr. India, she oozed more sex than the half-clad Sonams and Kimi Katkars. The saving grace of so many also-rans of the year like Watan Ke Rakhwale in which she poured herself into a police inspector's uniform and the only silver lining in the gloomy Himmat Aur Mehanat, Joshilaay, Sherni. Yes, as Sri, as Shekhar Kapur calls her, held on to her No. 1 status without really having to bat her false eyelashes.

Sridevi also turned down offers opposite Mr. Bachchan, she played hard to get with Lata Mangeshkar for Lekin and was replaced by Dimple Kapadia; plus it's said that her momma demanded too much moolah for Shashi Kapoor's Ajooba. Again Dimple was in. But does Sridevi care? Not really. Because she calls the shots, gets the money she (or her momma) demands and lives out of a suitcase in five-star hotels as long as the room service comes on the producer's expense..."

Gautam Rajadhyaksha's Sridevi centrefold

 

The late great photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha captures a pensive Sridevi in his library

The image appeared in both G magazine and Filmfare in the late 90s in Mumbai. 

Not many know that Sridevi really did wear eye-glasses. Not just for a shoot... 

Lady in red: Sridevi styled by Manish Malhotra

 

The beautiful Sridevi centrefold - that face! The 90s perm framing her visage, the styling of newcomer Manish Malhotra - this was a Stardust spread in the mid 90s.

Photography by Sridevi's perpetual favourite Rakesh Shreshta - she was his favourite too and addressed her as 'Maai...'

Sridevi

Early 90s MOVIE magazine centrefold, Sridevi. Shot by Rakesh Shreshta.

TBT: Throwback to summer of 1986

Mid.

Middle of the 1980s, this centrefold and shoot with Sridevi is... easily one of my least favourite images of the great Sridevi. Everything is a hot mess... but a reflection of the time. So its here in the blog! 

Despite the obvious obsession, am not blind to the errs of Sridevi either. Be it bad film choices, makeup, outfits or partners... She was divine on screen, all too human off. 

Sridevi's centrefold from May 1986!

Sridevi and Vinod Khanna centrefold for Star & Style

 

During film promotion of Pathar ke Insan in the early 90s, gorgeous Sridevi and Vinod Khanna.

The Sridevi centrefold: Cine Blitz's spread in 1989

 

oh the 80s prom dress! A look from Chaalbaaz. Sridevi rockin' out.

The Sridevi centrefold: Robe, glasses, library

 

Have an inkling this was published in G magazine - the one issue I don't have! But would love to grab - a centrefold with Sridevi, shot by the late great Gautam da.

The Sridevi and Vinod Khanna Star & Style centrefold

 

Sridevi's look from Naaka Bandi

Sridevi's look from Naaka Bandi 

 

Sridevi in and as Chandni (1989)

 The looks were impeccable and so was the delicate styling... Gorgeous Sridevi. 

 The Filmfare centrefold below was such a rage in the 80s. 

The Sridevi centrefold: Cine Blitz: Jan 2013

 

The Sridevi centrefold in a black gown; glorious Indian icon.

Shot by Dabboo Ratnani. 

Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi's Cine Blitz centrefold: TBT to June 1986!

Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi on the sets of Aakhree Raasta back in the summer of 1986. A Cine Blitz centrefold!

Sridevi didn't love her role or this film (tbh neither did we!), but she did it for the producers who had long-supported her. Sridevi didn't sign a film with Bachchan until 1990 when Khuda Gawah was launched and she had equal (some might even say longer/meatier + double role!) footage and screen time as Big B! In show-biz, she understood both 'show' and 'biz'--Sridevi signed her biggest contract with this movie. 

 

Sridevi's denim on denim on denim look! The Saucy Centrefold

Throwback to October 1988, Sridevi's centrefold for Cine Blitz magazine, for the cover shoot and feature.

 

The Sridevi centrefold: 80s fashion and the white prom dress

A look from a song in Naaka Bandi; the Sridevi centrefold in Hindi tabloid in the late 80s. The film released in 1990 but was in production for long. This image was published around Dec 1988 in Star & Style for example. 

The white turban, the glossy makeup, the white prom dress - ah 80s fashion tho'! 

The Sophistication of Sridevi: Fashion in the 1980s!

Sridevi's fashion spread in the 1980s!

The Sophistication of Sridevi...