Sridevi with Amitabh Bachchan in Dec 1988!!

The timeline of Khuda Gawah is so fascinating. If the image of Sridevi and Amitabh Bachchan in their costumes for Khuda Gawah was published in MOVIE magazine back in December 1988, then the discussion about the film started long before.  The film finally released four years later - May of 1992! 

Film producer Manoj Desai recollects, "We shot in Afghanistan during a war. Najibullah, a friend of the late Rajiv Gandhi, gave us an entire Lashkar for protection. Even our cameraman, WB Rao, would place his camera in a tent to shoot. 

 All the artists’ families, Amitji, Sridevi, and Danny Dengzongpa, were worried. I remember Teji Bachchanji told me that if anything happened to her son, I shouldn’t come back, I should die as well. Sridevi herself reminded me she had to take care of her mother, so she had better be brought back safely. Those were tense times.” 

-- Caption courtesy News 9 

Star & Style: Intimately Yours Sreedevi: Dec 1988

Sridevi on the cover of Star & Style - Dec 16-29, 1988!

This is one of Sridevi's looks from the song 'Main hoon naughty girl' from the film Nakka Bandi. The movie was released in May 1990 - the cover was shot in November 1988, released in December!

In the '80s (depending on the production house!), Bollywood was notoriously badly organised. This movie was on and off production for several years and finally came out. Sri looks gorgeous throughout but the clipped scenes and editing halts this movie from being one of Sri's better comedies.

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Rare pics: Sridevi on stage, backstage, with Nutan, with Anupam Kher...

Such a rare series of pics. esp of Sridevi with legendary late actress Nutan!

Sridevi with Anupam Kher

Sridevi on stage.

Sridevi with her aunt.

Kuwait, December 2, 1988

Cover girl: Sridevi in white: Star & Style: Dec 1988

Sridevi's cover shoot for Star & Style. 

December, 16-29, 1988 - Rs 6! 

Title tag: Intimately yours, Sreedevi 

Everything about this reeks of the '80s - the glossy makeup, the turban, the fake curls, the satin dress... and yet, Sridevi manages to look pretty darn gorgeous!

The magazine closed shop in the 1990s - but not before a multi-crore lawsuit against that was filed against the publication by Aishwarya Rai. They wrote, as they were wont to, some unflattering allegations about her personal life and she dragged them to court - and won!

When magazines used to write rubbish about Sridevi, Sridevi opted to ignore it and ban interviews. Especially in the thick of 1980s, many film magazines just wrote unverified crap all the live-long day. Sadly, many chose to believe it too.  

For keen observers, the look is entirely from a song/dream sequence from the film Naaka Bandi - a much delayed film that began shooting in 1988 and finally released in 1990! 

Dharmendra and Sridevi