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Iconic Bollywood actor Sridevi passed away early on 25 February. "News of her death has left me broken, Harish Iyer said, as he reminisced about his favourite actor. In a video conversation with The Quint, the LGBT rights activist opened up about how watching Sridevi on screen as he grew up helped shape him as a person.
I used to fight with my friends if they said anything nasty about Sridevi or her accent in films.Harish Iyer
In Pankuj Parashar's 1989 film ChaalBaaz, Sridevi played a double role that of a shy Anju and a feisty Manju who stood up to a patriarchal world. "Telling the patriarchal world that I have my stand, my stance and I will stand by it. I cannot be dominated by men. I related to that because my life was being dominated by men, he says.
Even though, I didn't remember my abuse. I remembered how it felt like to be tortured, abused, and raped. All I wanted was a Manju in my life. That Manju is Sridevi.Harish Iyer
"Her dialogue "love toh love hota hai na from English Vinglish is one of the simplest things ever. You don't need to understand what homosexuality is, you just need to understand what love is, he says.
"When I told her that she had a huge fan following in the LGBT community, she was baffled because she did not know what LGBT was. I explained it to her and she understood me.
"At the Satyamev Jayate shooting, she came up on stage and told me I was a hero. It broke me. It took time to digest. I was overwhelmed that day. People have dreams and fantasies. For me, that was beyond a dream. I never thought it would be a reality, he says.
Iyer recalled Sadma (1983), the remake of the Tamil movie Moondram Pirai, starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi that saw her in the iconic role of Nehalata, a woman who regresses into childhood after a head injury. Iyer says Sridevi's innocence in Sadma reminded him of the innocence that was stolen from him as someone who was sexually abused as a child.
"In Sadma, the way she forgets all that Kamal Haasan had done for her. The last scene when she completely forgets. I related to that so much. Forget forgetting, I was trying to remember. My memory was giving up. I couldn't remember the sequence of things happening to me. Though she was ruthless, I related to her, he says.
I yearned to be a kid like Sridevi. I yearned to be innocent, because that's what I had lost.
"Remember Lamhe? I've known her since before I turned seven. When I was abused at the age of 7, I realised I needed a parallel reality, like all of us do. A reality we can migrate to when we are distressed and can't seem to find any solutions, Iyer says.
"This is how she has influenced my life. By being a mirror to me. By reflecting to me what I was reflecting within. By being an alternate reality that was more close to reality, he says.
I saw a star falling onto earth. Now it has gone back to the skies. And there will never be a star like Sridevi.Harish Iyer
Superstar Sridevi's sudden death in Dubai has shocked the film industry and fans back home. When it was first reported that the actor had suffered a cardiac arrest, leading to her death, social media was rife with theories about how Botox injections and cosmetic surgeries had led to her early demise.
However, when the Dubai police released the death certificate on Monday, it was revealed that the cause of death was 'accidental drowning'. It's still unclear how Sridevi drowned in a tub. For that, we will have to wait for the postmortem report - if it is shared with the public. That would be the decent thing to do.
But who has the patience to be decent? Certainly not large sections of the Indian media.
While Hindi channel ABP News announced that they would reveal 'Sridevi's last 15 mins in the bathroom' on prime-time news, Aaj Tak had the anchor stand next to the visual of a bathtub with Sridevi's portrait above it.
Telugu TV9 had a morphed visual of Sridevi lying dead in a bathtub, with Boney Kapoor looking on. The channel also ran a 'scene re-creation' with alcohol bottles placed above the bathtub, claiming that Boney Kapoor had not received a 'clean chit' as yet.
English channels were not to be left behind. CNN News 18, too, had Sridevi lying dead in a bathtub. Times Now had an "investigative" display with Sridevi standing next to a tub, all measurements marked out - her height and the tub's dimensions - as if they were trying out the Archimedes' Principle on prime-time news.
Guests on Republic TV went ahead and linked Sridevi's death to the late Sunanda Pushkar because...why not?
He then claims that the bathtub Sridevi was using must have been of '3 feet height and 2 feet length' (don't worry, we're as confused as you are) and that he's in a similar tub. To set any doubts we may have about the issue to rest, he climbs into the tub and demonstrates that there's no way anyone could have drowned in it, even if she'd been lying down. Sherlock also adds that Sridevi could have easily climbed out of the bathtub if she'd wanted to.
"So did anyone MAKE Sridevi drown in the bathtub?" he puts forth the explosive question he'd been itching to ask from the beginning.
After elaborating on the conspiracy theory some more, the journalist helpfully shows just how Sridevi's head could have been pushed underwater to render her breathless and kill her.
Watch:
A moment of silence. Not for the death of a beloved star (she deserves more than that), but for the death of journalism.
Definitely, it is the job of the media to ask uncomfortable questions about the death of a woman who was very much in the public eye. However, what's happening right now isn't an inquiry interested in establishing any kind of truth; it is to grab the maximum number of eyeballs by propagating every WhatsApp forward as "evidence". The visuals and commentaries we're subjected to rob a woman of her dignity, even in death, and completely disrespect the sentiments of those who loved her and are still grieving her sudden death.
From sanctimoniously parading Sridevi's death as a "life lesson" for women to be comfortable in their skin and stay healthy minus Botox, to doing a 360 degree flip and asking how a healthy woman like her could have drowned without force, the Indian media circus has been mind-numbing to observe.
Dubai publication Khaleej Times has put out a 'nano edit' on the sorry state of the Indian media that should hopefully inject some shame into everyone's systems. Appealing to their Indian counterparts not to play the judge, the Khaleej Times asks "why jump to conclusions?" and advises the media to be patient and wait for the authorities to get to the bottom of the truth.
Whatever be the facts of the case as they emerge, one cannot help but agree with this tweet:
Originally posted by: Breath-Mark
Not very sure where to ask so asking here, but did SRK post a tweet or seen coming for funeral?
Havent read anything
If the soft face and tough physique gave Dharmendra and Sunny Deol a unique charm, it was her baby face on a cabaret-dancer body that gave Sridevi an appeal quite heady.
She had a similar contrast in her personality off-screen too. It was evident at my very first meeting with Sridevi in Rajahmundry where she was shooting for her first full-fledged Hindi film, Himmatwala (1983) with Jeetendra. At that time, her sister Srilatha and she were inseparable and very happy to meet people who'd flown down from Mumbai to cover the shoot and meet the new heroine.
Many of us had already seen Sridevi's confident work in films like Solva Sawan (1979) which was a remake of the Tamil hit, 16 Vayathinile, and much later the very impressive Sadma (1983), also the remake of a much-acknowledged Tamil film. So when she came aboard Himmatwala, she'd already made her mark as a bankable and saleable siren in Tamil and other south Indian cinema. But a break in Hindi films with its pan-India audience was special.
Sridevi, who was still to be comfortable with Hindi and spoke hesitant English, was thrilled to find someone who could jabber with her in Tamil. When I told her I'd just got married, she excitedly jumped up to congratulate me in Tamil.
That trait of simplicity stayed with Sridevi through all the vicissitudes of life - and she saw too many unpleasant ones at too young an age not to be scarred in some way.
Four years was no age to lose your childhood and your schoolbooks to studios and make-up - the bane of a child artiste pushed to make a living by an unrelenting mother. Sridevi was a child who hadn't even turned five and had no clue what she was doing when she first faced the camera as Lord Muruga in the Tamil film Thunaivan (released in 1969).
Thirteen years, and still clueless, was also too tender an age to doll up in a sari and look grown-up as the leading lady of Moondru Mudichu (1976), a Tamil film directed by the legendary K. Balachander. Coincidentally, all the three young actors of that Tamil film who went on to become huge, mega stars, are in the news today for different reasons - Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as two aspiring netas of 2018 while Sridevi has much of the country in mourning.
Fifty-four years was no age to call for a pack-up.
Just before she left for a family wedding in Ras-al-Khaimah where two days later she passed away, friends had met her at the Marriott in Juhu. She'd finished her workout in the gym (a must for her) and was getting herself a beverage at the BBC (a confectioner) there. She didn't look like someone who'd suffer sudden cardiac arrest the next week.
But Sri was someone who lived much of her life before time.
Back in Rajahmundry where the Jumping Jack was hopping around a green field in white trousers, Sridevi seemed almost too shy to look you in the face and hold a conversation. But that vanished the moment the camera was switched on as she seductively matched Jeetendra's pace and danced around him wearing black, knee-length tights and a blingy tight sleeveless top.
The song, typical of the early '80s, was Ladki nahi tu lakdi ka khamba haiand the wonder girl with thunder thighs and child-woman sensuality seduced the north of India overnight.
With her discomfort in Hindi, her early films were not even dubbed by her. But it was her ability to turn on the male in the audience that producers repeatedly and unabashedly tapped - films like Tohfa (1984) and Masterji (1985) followed.
It was only in 1987, when Shekhar Kapur cast her in Mr India and she did those absolutely delightful song sequences like Hawa Hawaii that Sridevi began to be taken seriously as an actress. But in that film too, Boney had challenged his director that nobody could make Sri look more sensuous than Feroz Khan did when he shot her in a sari for the song Har kisiko nahin milta... in Jaanbaaz (1986).
Shekhar rose to the challenge, put Sri in a blue sari and the result was the steamy Kaate nahin katate ye din ye raat... in Mr India. Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu is famous for its fireworks. It also produced a bomb named Sridevi who was born there.
Mr India was her introduction to producer Boney Kapoor who was married but besotted. Sri was at that time in a relationship with Mithun Chakraborty, also married.
Two examples of sheer instinct proved right at that time. Boney's wife Mona had a battle-axe named Sattee Shourie for a mother. Sattee had told me that Sridevi had her sights set on her son-in-law, Boney. It had seemed incredulous at that time.
But Mithun too had sensed it because one day he asked Sri to prove to him that Boney was like a brother-figure to her: she obliged him by tying a rakhito Boney.
Ultimately, Mithun couldn't give Sri what she wanted. His wife Yogita Bali had told many of us that she would never divorce her husband, not even if he took on another wife. Sri didn't want to be the second woman.
Even while she gained respect as a professional actress and a complete package as an entertainer, her personal life crumbled. Her mother died in a freak surgery in the US where the wrong side of her brain was operated. She sued, Boney by her side. When she won, her sister Srilatha legally sought her share of the "inheritance".
It was a classic case of the damsel-in-distress and the knight-in-shining armour meeting when Sridevi one day had a problem in the hotel where she was staying and Boney fetched up to take her home.
"It's totally platonic," he'd assured me. "You don't understand, she is all alone in this world."
But her legal battle in the US and his joining her there turned into a situation where wife Mona soon began to seem like the other woman.
The cardiac arrest that took Sridevi's life in Dubai will spark off a debate on whether measures taken to lose weight and look young took their toll on her.
Many have also remarked on a cruel coincidence. Mona Kapoor died (at age 48, even younger than Sridevi) on March 25, 2012, two months before her son Arjun Kapoor could make his debut in the theatres with Ishaqzaade(May 11, 2012).
Sridevi too won't be around to see her daughter Jahnvi's debut this July when her first film Dhadak is released.
Whichever way you look at it, the death of Sridevi on February 24, 2018, was untimely and tragic. RIP to a simple girl and an incredible actress.
Originally posted by: Breath-Mark
Not very sure where to ask so asking here, but did SRK post a tweet or seen coming for funeral?
Havent read anything
Originally posted by: -MariaMars-
Want to give a TIGHHHTTT hug to the girls... This is heartbreaking...
JAHNVI, KHUSHI BROKE DOWN CRYING "AMMA! AMMA!
Both daughters break down at the sight of their mother
Perhaps the most heartbreaking moment of Sridevi's final journey home was when the late actress' body reached Boney Kapoor's Green Acres residence in Lokhandwala and was unloaded from the ambulance and taken up to the 101/102 flat. Her daughters Jahnvi and Khushi, who had stayed out of the media focus since Sridevi's death was announced on Saturday night, suddenly burst on the scene inconsolably wailing "Amma! Amma! like their world had come to an end.
Papa Boney was not around to comfort them. But cousin Sonam Kapoor, a quiet picture of grace and strength, rushed forward to do the job. Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Kapoor were seen entering the flat with the mortal remains. But Arjun Kapoor, who accompanied his father and the casket on the flight back from Dubai, was not in the picture.
A paramedic team was at hand to prepare the body for tomorrow's public darshan and then the last rites. Sridevi will apparently be dressed up like the Queen of the silver screen she once was. Manish Malhotra, her close friend and favourite stylist, stood by in respectful silence, a lost, pained look on his handsome face, perhaps wishing he could get Sridevi ready one last time. A havan is also expected to be performed at the residence along with other rituals according to South Indian custom. Sridevi had finally come home... but just for tonight.
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