Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in the Malayalam classic Sathyavan Savithri (1977)

Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in the Malayalam classic Sathyavan Savithri (1977). A costume drama from Kerala, somehow, when Sridevi became a huge star in the 1980s, the film was re-released as "Night Queen", a tawdry title to lure in the front benchers. Part of the early bad press Sridevi had when they accused her of being part of "adult films" - a rumour that persisted for a decade and when nothing came of it, finally died down. 

Sathyavan Savithri was released in October 1977 in Kerala and you can watch it online in YouTube here.

 

Sridevi in Satyavan Savithri (1977)

 One of the many films she did with co-star Kamal Haasan, here's Sridevi striking a pose in the Malayalam film Satyavan Savithri (1977). 

The film was also dubbed into Tamil with the same title and into Telugu as Sathyavanthudu. 

Sridevi was all of 14 when she played the title role - well, half the title role! 

Based on a chapter taken from the epic Mahabharata. 

Haven't seen the film and know very little about it. The only part that comes to mind is a tale Sridevi said on a Tamil show back in 2012. It was the early days and Sridevi hadn't perfected the art of grooming and styling on screen. With a little peach fuzz on her face, Kamal Haasan quipped, the film should have been named Satyavan Sardarji! 

Before the internet and twats on twitter go after him (again!), Sridevi took it in good spirit and laughed it off years later on the show. The anecdote she brought up decades later on the show - had she been mortally offended or hurt, she wouldn't have relayed it on television. 

Unlike new gen, she wasn't a snowflake.