Sridevi spotted at Juhu

Sridevi was seen entering a Juhu Scheme building where her brother-in-law Sanjay Kapoor lives late evening on Wednesday.

She was not visiting Sanjay but consulting Dr Himanshu Mehta at his eye clinic in the same building. Boney Kapoor's biwi has an eye infection and went there straight from an ad shoot.

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Bollywood stars relentlessly clapped for her

The moment she stepped on the ramp, the main show area was filled with cheers as the audience couldn't stop looking at Bollywood actress Sridevi.

She looked stunning in a black gown (pictured left) as she walked the ramp for jewellery designer Queenie Dhody at the inaugural jewellery show of HDIL India Couture Week in Mumbai late Monday (Oct 12).

"She is looking so stunning. Just look at her, she is so beautiful," said a mesmerised member of the audience.

As soon as she started walking the ramp, someone from the audience shouted: "Come on Sridevi, you are the best."

It was not just the audience, even Bollywood stars Hrithik Roshan, Dimple Kapadia, Twinkle Khanna, Sanjay Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Dia Mirza, Zayed Khan, Karan Johar and her husband Boney Kapoor clapped relentlessly till she left the ramp.

"She looked like a diva. Just look at her, it seems that she is getting younger day by day. The way she has maintained herself is amazing," Raveena Tandon told IANS after the show.

This is the first time that HDIL-ICW had a high-end jewellery show that featured four jewellery designers - Devaunshi Mehta, Farah Khan, Queenie Dhody and Maheep Kapoor - who came out with their dazzling collections.

Talking about her jewellery line Dhody said that high-end jewellery had become very popular among people.

"People now want to own a piece of jewellery that is exclusive. This exquisite line of hand-made jewellery has both precious and semi-precious stones with fine craftsmanship that makes it very exclusive and everyone should at least own one piece," she said.

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Sridevi to appear on '10 ka Dum'

He romanced her in Chaand Kaa Tukdaa way back in 1994 and now, she’s his producer. Salman Khan and Sridevi have always shared a good rapport.

So when Salman requested the reticent actress to make an appearance on his television show, 10 Ka Dum, she couldn’t refuse.

Insiders say that Sridevi and filmmaker husband Boney Kapoor spent close to five hours on the sets earlier this week and though portions of the show were meant to publicise their film Wanted - the emphasis was on the fantastic rapport between Salman and his former co-star.

Boney Kapoor, who is an ardent fan of Salman, said, “Sri has been asked to appear on Koffee with Karan, on Vir Sanghvi’s show and has also been invited by several other prominent talk show hosts. However, she politely refused the offers because she is shy. But when it came to appearing on Salman’s show, Sri didn’t have to be persuaded. Like me, she also shares a good rapport with Salman.”

Apart from acting, Sridevi and Salman also share another common interest - painting.

In fact, some of Salman’s paintings are put up in Kapoor’s residence alongside paintings by Sridevi. When Salman got to know about her talent, he requested Boney to sneak in two of her paintings to the sets of the show. Much to Sridevi’s surprise, Salman also showed her paintings to the viewers.
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Kareena Kapoor,Saif Ali Khan & Rani Mukherjee at a Wedding

Kareena Kapoor,Saif Ali Khan & Rani Mukherjee & Sridevi at the Wedding of their yoga trainer - Payal Gidwani at ITC Grand Maratha at Andheri on 1st June 2009

No comebacks for Sridevi

Sridevi, Bollywood's biggest actress in the ’80s, was last seen in 1996's Judaai and, alas, that might well be the last we have seen of her.

Rumours that the actress had been offered, and had taken up, a role by Hema Malini were denied by her husband Boney Kapoor.

“I don’t think she wants to do films anymore,” he said, “I don't know anything about these stories of her comeback. It's just a rumour.”

Reports of Hema Malini offering his wife a film, said Boney, were untrue: “Hemaji has not offered her anything, and I should know: she's my wife!"

Asked if Sridevi was closed to doing roles even if work came her way - she still looks quite stunning - Boney said, “Well, she is an actress. If an interesting role comes up she may do it, I suppose.”

But Boney hasn't cast her in his own movies. His last one was No Entry, starring Salman Khan and Bipasha Basu, which was a hit. It didn't star Sridevi, and neither does his finished but still-to-be-released Salman starrer Wanted.

Fans of Sridevi miss her effervescence. She was the last truly bubbly heroine to have graced the Bollywood screen. After a smashing career in the ’80s, when she and the unlikely hero Jeetendra notched up a series of hits, she married Boney Kapoor on June 6, 1996, and has not worked since. Born in 1963, she's now 45.

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How fair is Bollywood with the Fairer sex?

It is often observed that Bollywood always associates the women folk to beauty, charisma and style. There’s hardly any mention of their acting prowess. It’s not because they don’t possess the ability to emote perfectly, but because they were never thought anything more than glamour dolls. And this phenomenon is nothing new to this industry.

From it’s inception till date, the way a woman is portrayed on screen is a far cry to our Western counterparts. Hollywood churns out female-centric stories like Lara Croft: The Tomb Raider and the Kill Bill series at regular intervals. However, in Bollywood, a female centric film means an arty genre, which only pulls critics to the theatres not crowds. From Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor to Kangana Ranaut, Priyanka Chopra, everyone fell prey to this mediocrity on the part of the industry.

Say for example, Aishwarya Rai who was equally good as Jodha in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodhaa Akbar, but it was Hrithik Roshan who walked away with the Best Actor trophy in almost all the award ceremonies.

The past comes calling

There were random instances of stalwarts like Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, Mehboob Khan and Raj Kapoor making an exception with their brilliant presentation of women excelling as a wife, mother and beloved. Bimal Roy’s Bandini, Sujata, had women taking centre stage in the film with powerful performances by Nutan. But unfortunately, the films got tagged as art cinema, thereby alienating it from the mainstream Hindi movies.

The poetically beautiful, scintillating, and mesmerizing Madhubala too fell prey to this trend until Mughal-E-Azam came along to prove her worth as a fine actress. Not only her touch-me-not beauty enthralled the audiences, but also her superb portrayal of forlorn courtesan in love with the heir to the throne of Hindustan, Salim. Before she got immortalised by Mughal-E-Azam , she was often seen doing little to minute roles in films like Chalti Ka Naam Gaddi, Kalapani, Mr. And Mrs. 55, etc. Same goes for Nargis, who though was a quintessential element in all Raj Kapoor movies and was equally wonderful as the showman himself, remained just heroes’ love-interest. In films like Shree 420, Awaara and others, she was just Raj Kapoor’s heroine who gets him back on track when he goes astray. It took Mehboob Khan’s Mother India to bring out the actress in her and bag an Academy Award nomination.

However, there was an exception in the form of Meena Kumari who was one actress for whom roles were

tailor-made. She was the most versatile actress of all times. She could equally match up to the comic histrionics of Kishore Kumar in Shararat and also play the tragedy queen in Saheb Biwi Aur Ghulam convincingly. She was not just another pretty face in tinsel-town but an actress whose expressions used to speak a 1000 words.

But other actresses like Sadhna, Nanda, Saira Banu, Sharmila Tagore, though were iconic, their presence in the films used to just add on to the glamour quotient. Even actresses like Vyajanthimala, Hema Malini and others were just dancing divas which used to eclipse their acting prowess.

The worst 90’s

This trend took a turn for the worse with the advent of 90s. It was an era of actions films and required well-built actors who could bash up 10-20 goons singlehandedly. So while actors like Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan. Suniel Shetty, and other did the beating up parts, actresses like Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor were just their muses. Being confined to sing and dance routines, actresses took more interest on the way they dressed than the way they act. Even a brilliant actress Tabu did films which couldn’t prove the brilliance of this actress. She debuted in a commercial flick Prem and did many such films like Ek Chor Ek Sipahi, Vijaypath, and others, which confined her to the glam doll image. Then came the hard-hitting Astitva and Chandni Bar, which not only bagged her two National Awards each, but also an identity of a talented actress. Same goes for Madhuri Dixit (Mrityudand), Raveena Tandon (Daman) and Karisma Kapoor (Fiza, Zubeida).

However, Sridevi is one actress who not only managed to get author-backed roles in majority of her films but also excelled in it. She started her career with Solva Saawan after doing loads of south Indian films. Her second film Himmatwala was a big success and she also got recognized but she kept on getting same kind of roles and even

starred in a few. She took the most daring step to be different from the rest when she signed Sadma. Here she played the role of an amnesic girl, which won her adulations and the National Award for Best Actress alike. And the rest as they say is history. She went on into doing some of the enviable roles of all times in films like Naagin, Lamhe, Chaalbaaz, Judaai, and others.

Apart from her, no one was as lucky to go anywhere near to her. And with such movies in circulation, the female audiences always felt left out or cheated to see the state of girls being so weak and demoralizing in films. The wardrobe exhibition which the heroines took to towards the end of the 20th century made them more prone to being just a glamour doll.

The Present

In the present times, we do get to see female-centric films coming out every year. But other than Fashion, none of these films scoop up a heavy total at the box-office. They are still tagged as ‘Unconventional films’. But with a surge of new starlets, filmmakers and storytellers, the trend is somewhat moving towards the brighter side. Today films like Lajja, Chameli, Woh Lamhe, Fashion and others do hit the theatres but the frequency is too rare to get noticed. Even if they are not classified as non-commercial films, they still have a niche audience mostly girls themselves. So the reach of such films is still negligible when compared to a Shah Rukh Khan or Salman Khan starrer.

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Industry stalwarts at Ghajini screening

Aamir doesn't hold premieres for his own films (The Jaane Tu premiere was held for Imran). Bollywood stalwarts took special time out to attend the special screening held in Bandra.

Take a look.

Hello, Everyone: Aamir is delighted as he greets Waheeda Rehman and Helen

Conversationalist: Aamir talks to writing legend Salim Khan and yesteryears actress Waheeda Rehman


2-gether: Actresses Asha Parekh and Helen are discussing something very important


I'm Here: Aamir's cousin Mansoor Khan came all the way from Conoor down South


Bespectacled: Rani Mukerji arrives to watch her Ghulam co-star's highly anticipated movie.


For My Daddy: Aamir's teenaged son Junaid arrives at the special screening. At almost 6 feet, he'd make a tall actor.


Family Outing: Boney Kapoor arrives with wife Sridevi and daughters Janhvi and Khushi.

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Sridevi walks the ramp at Lakhme Fashion Week

The Chandni girl is back and how! The eternally reigning Queen Bee of Bollywood Sridevi, who had quit films at the peak of her career ultimately made a comeback in Lakme India Fashion Week. And Man! What a comeback that was. True to the saying, once a flower always a flower, she proved that once a heart-stopper, always and all-ways a heart-stopper! Sri Baby (as she is fondly called) walked the ramp in a beige evening gown for designers Priya and Chintan.

In the days of teeny boppy bubble gum romantics like Saif-Kareena, Ranbir-Deepika are making their lovely and lively presence felt on the ramp in the Lakme Fashion Week, it was a real refresher to see Sridevi walk the ramp (as gracious as ever) with her hubby Boney Kapoor and kids clicking their mom.