Sridevi Birth Anniversary: 5 Lesser-Known Facts About India’s First Female Superstar

Popular Bollywood actress Shree Amma Yanger Ayyappan who is infamously known as Sridevi in the country would be celebrating her 59th birthday if she was among us. She had worked in a wide variety of films in different languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and more. She had been a sucessfull actress all through her life and some of her very famous movies include, “Angeekaaram”, “Sigappu Rojakkal”, “Padaharella Vayasu”, “Vetagaadu”, “Varumayin Niram Sivappu” and more.

This year she would have been turning, 58, but unfortunately we lost the actress on 2018. Sridevi Birth Anniversary is on August 13. She was found unresponsive on February 24, 2018, in her hotel suite at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from an unnatural death. Today on Sridevi’s 59th birth anniversary, here’s a look at 5 Least-Known Facts About India’s First Female Superstar.

Sridevi Birth Anniversary: 5 Lesser-Known Facts About India’s First Female Superstar

1. Early Career

With the release of “Thunaivan” at the tender age of 4, Sridevi started her acting career in movies. She finished 300 movies during her five decades of acting, with Mom serving as her final one. She received a National Film Award for Best Actress posthumously for the movie.

2. Co Stars And Sridevi

Fans adored Sridevi best when she appeared on screen alongside Anil Kapoor, Jeetendra, and Kamal Hasaan. She made a staggering 13 movies with Anil Kapoor, 16 movies featuring Jeetendra, and 27 movies opposite Kamal Haasan, which is possibly the cause behind it. These consist of Tamil, Telegu, Hindi, and Kannada movies.

3. She Played Rajnikanth’s Step-mom

Rajinikanth and Sridevi collaborated on 22 movies in total. However did you recognize that in 1976’s “Moondru Mudichu,” Sridevi, then 13 years old, portrayed the role of Rajinikanth’s stepmother? Rajinikanth was 25 years old at the time.

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4. She Didnt Know Hindi

Although Sridevi moved seamlessly into Bollywood movies and worked her charms here as well, assisting in the background wasn’t very simple for her because she couldn’t speak the language. She was had to have her language redone.

5. Rejected Roles

Throughout her five-decade journey, Sridevi turned down many projects that later became hits. The part of Madhuri Dixit in “Beta” was presented to her. In “Baazigar,” she was even set to portray the identical female leads. Steven Spielberg even promised her a part in Jurassic Park, but she declined it since she wanted to avoid taking a lengthy hiatus from Indian cinema.vc