Honestly I never knew Sridevi was such a huge start before coming to IF or before I started to read about Bollywood history, whereas Madhuri's stardom is something that I knew without a question. One reason could be that I was born late. I didn't even witness Madhuri's stardom first hand. I was born in the mid 90s and by the time my memory started (i.e. late nineties or after 2000), even Madhuri was out of the chart (I do remember the buzz around Kajol, and later Ash, Preity, Rani etc). However Madhuri's stardom is something I knew even without witnessing it first hand -- ask any man in previous generations who their dream girl was, they'd choose Madhuri without a heartbeat, and every girl in that generation wanted to be like her etc.
With Sridevi I never knew she was so phenomenally popular or acclaimed until I got IF. From the 90s I knew about Juhi, Karishma, Madhuri, and later Kajol, Manisha etc, but Sridevi was hardly mentioned by any of my peers. From older actresses, I did know about Rekha, Jaya, Shabana, Hema (I know they are from even older generations, but trying to make a point here) etc but didn't even know Sridevi's face properly (and most people in my age group doesn't know her very well either). Also, I think it was because Sridevi didn't work (until EV happened) that she was not talked about by the masses - whereas Jaya, Rekha, Shabana, Hema etc were working in films continuously.
So when I heard Sridevi was even more popular than MD that was really shocking to me.
So IFians, who was more popular between them, and was Sridevi really as popular as IF makes her out to be?
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