Ai translation of this vintage magazine feature - so it is sort of accurate but exactly but... you get the gist!
"What if all fans rush to marry me?"
-- Sridevi
Writing love letters to actresses is a hobby for fans. Some fans write love letters, carefully mail them to the stars, and then completely forget about it. However, some other fans make it their sole mission; they sit on their doorsteps, eagerly waiting to see if a reply will come.
"...I want to start a business. I want you to cooperate with me for that, and you must marry off your daughter Sridevi to me. I will look after your daughter very carefully without causing her any hardships," etc., etc. He used to write all sorts of things.
Our father used to read those letters...
No matter how much effort these fans put into their emotional poetry and romantic madness in their letters, actresses do not care at all. They just laugh it off playfully and leave it at that. And the fans do not even realise this.
But some fans are very serious. They take everything quite seriously. Sridevi tells us the story of one such eccentric fan who used to watch Sridevi's movies dozens of times and started writing endless love letters: "An ardent fan from a village near North Arcot used to repeatedly send letters to my father. "I have two lakh rupees. I want to start some business..."...and throw them away after ripping them up. Once, he wrote in a letter that he was coming to our house in Madras with his mother on a specific date. As usual, my father tore up that letter and threw it away. No one took it seriously.
Then one day, a person wearing pants, a shirt, sunglasses, and a shoulder bag arrived at our house along with an old woman. Not knowing who they were, my father went pale.
Looking at my father's questioned expression, that person smiled and said with absolute confidence, "You look like you don't know who I am. Didn't you read the letter I sent you?" My father then understood the situation. He made him sit down and started asking for details. While they were talking like that..."
