The Ghayal Party! Throwback to 1990 when Sridevi made a rare appearance for the Deols

June 1990; Dharmendra's home production of Ghayal releases - and the film fraternity en masse turns up to support the beloved actor and his son's (what turned out to be brilliant and popular) film. 

The film fraternity attendance was incredible - especially the leading ladies who turned up, dolled up to the hilt; from Rekha, Sridevi, Madhavi, Sonam, Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia, Amrita Singh and, of course, the film's leading lady Meenakshi Seshadiri. 

Sunny Deol's contemporaries, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Chunky Pandey attended, as did directors and producers like Shekhar Kapur, Pahalaj Nihalani, actors Amrish Puri, Karan Razdan with his wife Priya (the famed "Rajini" of television), among so many others! 

• More images in the archive here.
• Sridevi with Dharmendra over the years here.
• Sridevi with Sunny Deol over the years here.
• Six films of Dharmendra with Sridevi. 
• Six films of Sunny Deol with Sridevi 

Sonam with Sridevi

Sonam, Sridevi and Sreelatha at the Ghayal post-premiere party in 

 No, not 'that' Sonam. But the OG Sonam! Of Oye Oye fame. She was a huge Sridevi fan and friend. These rare images of the two (along with Sridevi's younger sister Sreelatha) from June 1990, when Sridevi (briefly) appeared at the premiere and after-party hosted by the Deols for Ghayal. 

More images of Sonam with Sridevi in the archive here.

Below a clip of Sonam talking about working with Sridevi in Naaka Bandi - the caption seems inaccurate, they were friendly but hardly 'best friends'! But oh well, for a clickbait caption, why not... Scroll to 19.30 when they first start talking about Sridevi. Excerpt: 

Q: How was it working with Sridevi?
Sonam: What was very surprising about doing Naaka Bandi was that I became friends with Srideviji. 

Q: That's again a rare thing. From what I've read, she was very choose about friends.
Sonam: Very choosy and, I used to look at her in awe, like, where did she come from? And she saw that child in me. So she started talking to me first. Then, the shooting of Chandni was going on, I had seen the trailer of the film, or I had gone to the mahurat [launch], I can't remember which, but after I sent her a huge bouquet and wrote, "Queen is always Queen!" 

Dharmendra with Sridevi

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Sridevi looking so pretty at an awards function. Dharmendra looks on.

Rotary Awards Night with Sridevi and Dharmendra, Hyderabad. 
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