10 Unknown Facts About Legendary Actress Sridevi That Will Leave You Stunned
Updated: May 8, 2021, 21:08 IST
Sridevi is the Evergreen diva of the Indian film industry who won millions of hearts with her performances in different languages. She has acted with all the top heroes of generations like NTR, ANR, Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Anil Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan etc.
For many actresses she has been an inspiration over the years. Even a few young actresses have grown up watching her movies. Unfortunately, her demise came as a shocker to all the cine-lovers as she bid goodbye in the year 2018. She has done utmost justice to all the characters she played on screen. So, here we list out a few unknown facts about Sridevi's throughout her Career.
- Everyone knew the English Vinglish Actress as Sridevi, but her real name is Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan. Set of things altered and she changed her name to Sridevi, through which she became familiar in Bollywood.
- Actress do reject a lot of movies, Sridevi was also the one to reject a film with Steven Speilberg. She was approached to play a small role in 'Jurassic Park'. She turned down the role as she felt it didn't suit her at that point.
- At the age of 13, Sridevi Played the role of Rajinikanth's Stepmother in a Tamil film titled Moondru Mudichu in the year 1976. Even though she was a teenage kid she aced the Adult role effortlessly.
- In 1971, she got an opportunity to act with Amma (late Tamil Nadu supermo Jayalalithaa) in a tamil devotional film Aathi Parasakthi.
- Sridevi is the only actress who ruled the southern industries and bollywood for generation's. Initially Sridevi wasn't comfortable with the Hindi language, as she was based in the South. So several of her films were dubbed by actors Rekha and Naaz.
- While shooting for ‘Na Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai’. She had a fever of 103 degrees but still she continued the shoot.
- Sridevi has done 16 films with Anil Kapoor. When she was offered a role in ''Beta' she refused saying she worked a lot already. Sridevi has been very choosy about her films throughout her entire career.
- Sridevi performed playback for Chandni, Garjna, Sadma and Kshana Kshanam’.
- Sridevi's first debut film was Thunaivan(1969), when she was just 4 years old. It was a Tamil mythological film in which she played Lord Murugan.
- Jahnavi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor are the daughters of Sridevi. She took those names as suggestions from Boney Kapoor's films ‘Judaai’ and ‘Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai' And named her children.