“Sridevi Kapoor, best known by her mononym Sridevi and a major Bollywood star, died Saturday night in UAE of cardiac arrest,” reports Erin Nyren for Variety. “Sridevi worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films before debuting in Hindi films. Her success led to other regional actresses like Jaya Prada to follow her to Bollywood.”
From Reuters: “Through the 1980s and 1990s she charmed audiences in female-centric films such as Chandni (Moonlight) and Lamhe (Moments), drawing praise for her comic timing in Chaalbaaz (Trickster) and Shekhar Kapur’s Mr. India, playing feisty characters in contrast to the traditionally coy Bollywood heroine.”
“She embodied feminine mystique and that classic screen-goddess combination of beauty glazed with mystery and intrigue,” writes Sudha G. Tilak for the BBC. “She lit up the screen with her vivacity and charm, while off it she remained fiercely private. Film directors repeatedly spoke in awe of her acting prowess, which followed no method but sheer intuition and instinct.”
“Fantasy and fun were the solvents for her sexiness,” writes the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. “In the 1986 film Nagina, or Female Snake, she had an uproarious snake dance. Audiences loved it when she did an outrageously broad Charlie Chaplin impression, while playing the goofy journalist in the 1987 film Mr. India. She also broke out wacky Jackie-Chan-style fight moves, such as those in the 1989 comedy Chaalbaaz, or Trickster, where she played twins, separated at birth. . . . Last year, she released Mom, a gritty thriller in which she plays a vigilante-avenger out for payback when her daughter is raped. But perhaps her most sensational film, and the one which lodged her ineradicably in the public’s mind is the potent melodrama from 1983, Sadma, or Trauma . . . Sadma is a movie to compare with the work of Hollywood’s great emotional master Douglas Sirk.”
Sridevi was only fifty-four.
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