Bollywood actress Sridevi passed away

[saadibaba]

Cause of death was accidental drowning in the bathtub after losing consciousness.

I was never convinced it was a simple cardiac arrest. She looked too good in shape for that.

I hope this "accidental drowning" cause does not have something more to it.

 

[kingusama92]

Wow, that sounds super shady now.

"Accidental drowning"

 

[thelandofthebravepeople]

Something fishy

 

[Varun]

Nope. Tbh I don't watch many Indian movies asides from some Amir Khan ones or if they are super super famous

Just googled the ones you mentioned. Mr. India is very old so obv no chance but surprised I missed English vinglish. Seems interesting from IMDb reviews

Please watch Mr. India as soon as you can. I watch 1 in 50 Bollywood movies myself, and even I can't recommend it enough.

A cult classic.

 

[PetroDollars]

Feel for Boney Kapoor as well. Had both of his wives died just a month before their respective children debuts

Maybe theres more to it

 

[in_cutter]

I was never convinced it was a simple cardiac arrest. She looked too good in shape for that.

I hope this "accidental drowning" cause does not have something more to it.

She was a little drunk..apparently.

 

[saadibaba]

She was a little drunk..apparently.

Similar to the demise of Whitney Houston, thought I think they found cocaine in her system.

 

[PakLFC]

Kapoor ladies success is the result of the fairness doctrine more than nepotism imo. I feel its unfair to blame family ties for their success when we have examples of Esha Deol and Fadeen Khan etc.

The Kapoor's are far more influential that the Deol's and Feroz Khan's family. I do partly agree though that not all Kapoor's are the result of nepotism when many in their family didn't make it either. By "fairness" do you mean their skin complexion?

 

[PakLFC]

Please watch Mr. India as soon as you can. I watch 1 in 50 Bollywood movies myself, and even I can't recommend it enough.

A cult classic.

I thought they were gonna make "Mr India 2"? The original is a classic for sure, that part where Sridevi realises the kid's are quiet because they are hungry is very touching even for a man with a hard heart like me.

 

[saadibaba]

By "fairness" do you mean their skin complexion?

Yes. Though not to say that fairness is all one needs to be successful in Bollywood, (Fardeen Khan again can be used as an example) though it does help a lot.

 

[TM Riddle]

Yes. Though not to say that fairness is all one needs to be successful in Bollywood, (Fardeen Khan again can be used as an example) though it does help a lot.

Esha Deol
Tanisha Mukharji
Fardeen Khan
Jayed Khan
Tushar Kapoor
Tiger Shroff
Imran Khan
Mimoh Chakrabarti
Harman Baweja
Adhyan Suman
Jacky Bhagnani
Sikandar Kher
Sanjay Kapoor
Kumar Gaurav
Faisal Khan

All star kids who couldn't make it despite their skin as fair as it could be in the subcontinent. It takes more than a '**** chittha face' to succeed in this industry.

 

[saadibaba]

Esha Deol
Tanisha Mukharji
Fardeen Khan
Jayed Khan
Tushar Kapoor
Tiger Shroff
Imran Khan
Mimoh Chakrabarti
Harman Baweja
Adhyan Suman
Jacky Bhagnani
Sikandar Kher
Sanjay Kapoor
Kumar Gaurav
Faisal Khan

All star kids who couldn't make it despite their skin as fair as it could be in the subcontinent. It takes more than a '**** chittha face' to succeed in this industry.

That was my point as well. But if you start putting names of star kids with darker complexion who flopped in Bollywood, you are likely to have an even bigger list.

 

[PakLFC]

Yes. Though not to say that fairness is all one needs to be successful in Bollywood, (Fardeen Khan again can be used as an example) though it does help a lot.

The leading ladies use a lot off whitening cream's. See them without make up and you'll be shocked. The more creams they use the worse they look without them. The least the use them the better they appear without them as well. Here is Sridevi without make up.

 

[TM Riddle]

Both Sardarji's expressions in the background

 

[Nostalgic]

So... which one is this Sridevi person in the picture above?

 

[TM Riddle]

The one with red dot 'bindi' most likely

 

[Madplayer]

The leading ladies use a lot off whitening cream's. See them without make up and you'll be shocked. The more creams they use the worse they look without them. The least the use them the better they appear without them as well. Here is Sridevi without make up.

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Dont see what the problem is. She looks good even without make up in this pic. Unlike a lot of other actresses like sonam kapoor who look like typical malnourished Bihari Pakora stall owners without make up.

 

[boomboomcheema]

Dont see what the problem is. She looks good even without make up in this pic. Unlike a lot of other actresses like sonam kapoor who look like typical malnourished Bihari Pakora stall owners without make up.

Don't know what was this pic supposed to convey, she still looks pretty beautiful. Sri Devis beauty was appreciated by everyone and wasn't made to look good with the help of make-up.

 

[Mamoon]

Esha Deol
Tanisha Mukharji
Fardeen Khan
Jayed Khan
Tushar Kapoor
Tiger Shroff
Imran Khan
Mimoh Chakrabarti
Harman Baweja
Adhyan Suman
Jacky Bhagnani
Sikandar Kher
Sanjay Kapoor
Kumar Gaurav
Faisal Khan

All star kids who couldn't make it despite their skin as fair as it could be in the subcontinent. It takes more than a '**** chittha face' to succeed in this industry.

Has Tiger failed to make it? I cannot recognize half of these names, but I see his pictures around quite often. He has the physique of a Greek god and appears to be quite popular.

Probably a poor actor if he has failed to make it big.

 

[Madplayer]

Don't know what was this pic supposed to convey, she still looks pretty beautiful. Sri Devis beauty was appreciated by everyone and wasn't made to look good with the help of make-up.

True. I mean being realistic, yes there are actresses who dont look anything more than above average without make up. But not Sridevi. She looked good without make up and people forget that she was 54.

 

[Madplayer]

Has Tiger failed to make it? I cannot recognize half of these names, but I see his pictures around quite often. He has the physique of a Greek god and appears to be quite popular.

Probably a poor actor if he has failed to make it big.

He is one of the worst actors in the world. But no, he hasnt failed to make it yet. He is quite popular and in demand but i am not sure how long he can last. He will probably end up being a one dimensional action only hero.

 

[imrankhannsu]

RIP.

Didn't watch any of her earlier movies but she was very good in English Vinglish and Mom.

Same here. She was amazing in English Vinglish! only thing I once saw was a movie in my Indian friends home as Mr. India!

RIP

 

[Gubol123]

Doing rounds in Whatsapp is Ram Gopal Verma's message.. not sure how much is true


RGV’s msg-

MY REALLY PERSONAL NOTE ON SRIDEVI

YES she was the most desirable woman and the biggest super star of the country and ruled as a main heroine in the entire country for more than 20 years..But that’s just a part of the story

However shocked and sad I feel about Sridevi's death, it’s finally once again a rude reminder for all of us about how unpredictable, cruel,fragile and mysterious both life and death are

After her death ,there is definitely much more for me to say than what most people are saying now about how beautiful she was, what a great actress she was, how her death affected them, " RIP"s "Om shanthi" s. etc etc etc
Sridevi's life is a classic case of how each persons actual life is completely different from how the rest of the outside world perceives it.
For many, Sridevi's life was perfect . Beautiful face, great talent, seemingly stable family with two beautiful daughters--
From outside everything looked so enviable and desirable... But was Sridevi a very happy person and did she lead a very happy life?

I know her life from the time I met her first for my film kshanakshanam . I saw with my own eyes how her life was like a bird in the sky till her father’s death and then became like a bird in a cage due to her overprotective mother

In those days actors used to be only paid in mostly black money and due to fear of tax raids her father used to trust friends and relatives who all betrayed her the moment the father died
Coupled with this the ignorant mother made many wrong investments in litigated properties and all those mistakes combined made her penny less by the time Boney came into her life
Boney himself was in huge debts and all he could afford to give her was a fat shoulder to cry on
After her mother became a psychotic patient because of a wrong surgery on her brain in USA,though Boney sued the hospital they dint get any huge amounts of money in settlement because of some agreement mistakes he did with the lawyers there
Once the mother died her younger sister Shri Latha eloped and got married to their neighbours son ..The mother before dying put all properties in sridevis name but her sister put a case on her demanding half the property claiming that her mother was insane and not in her senses when she signed the will due to the brain surgery

So in effect the woman desired by millions in the world was all alone in the world except for one Boney

Boney ‘s mother portrayed her as a home breaker and publically punched her in the stomach in a five star hotel lobby in revenge for what she presumed about what she did to Boney’s first wife Mona

Except for the short glimmer of English vinglish Sridevi has been pretty much a very unhappy woman
Boney’s debts ,the uncertainty of the future,the ugly turns and twists in her private life left deep scars in the super stars sensitive mind and there after she was never at peace. She went through so much in her life and due to her early career entry,life never gave her time to grow up at a normal pace.
More than the external peace, her internal mental state was of a high degree of concern and this caused her to look at her own self . She was the most beautiful woman for so many people. But did she think she was beautiful ?
Yes but every actresses nightmare is age and she was no exception
For years she was doing cosmetic surgeries the effects of which can be clearly seen In her interviews and public appearances,
She always came across as very shy,insecure and low on confidence .
Some one who is very uptight, who built a psychological wall around her as she was scared of anybody to really see what's going on within her. She was panicky about anybody knowing what her psychological insecurities were.
Not because of her fault, but because she was thrust with fame from a very young age that never gave her a chance to be independant and be what she could really be and really wanted to be
She had to put on the make up and be somebody else not just infront of the camera,but also behind the camera.

Though I as an audience thoroughly enjoyed her on the screen , I now after knowing her as a person wish that she was allowed to be a star even in her normal life instead of being constantly directed by her parents,her relatives, her husband and to an extent even her own daughters .. She was scared whether her daughters would be accepted or whether they will go the Hema Malini’s daughter Esha Deol way

I could see in her eyes the pain she was going through deep inside her and that’s because she is actually a child trapped in a woman’s body ..she is naive as a person, but suspicious because of her bitter experiences which is not a very good combination . She used to convey to me so much through her silence than most would in their best conversations

Coming to her death ,it is most likely a combination of heart stroke induced accidental drowning death in the tub . But medications might have played a huge role.

Many suicides and accidental deaths happen after big parties or weddings. That's because people with depression and insecurities can't understand why the whole world is so happy and enjoying, but they are not able to feel the happiness inspite of all the glitter and spotlight. That reminds them that they are deeply sad and that there is nothing wrong with the world and the fault is with just them that they are not able to feel anything.

Some people who are very deeply depressed commit suicide. Others, just to control their depression and anxiety, take extra pills not knowing that it can be dangerous in certain doses and conditions

Keeping the speculations on her death aside and coming back to the point of her life,I generally don't say " Rest In Peace" after people die, but in her case I want to really say it because I very strongly believe that she would finally and really rest in peace now for the first time in her life ,

Or shall I say death?

 

[PakLFC]

Don't know what was this pic supposed to convey, she still looks pretty beautiful. Sri Devis beauty was appreciated by everyone and wasn't made to look good with the help of make-up.

I did not say she looks ugly without being done up. The point is the exact opposite that she looks okay without it. Many however look terrible without make up as well.

 

[SandyB]

South Indian actresses have to be incredibly good looking to even make it to Bollywood in the first place, and by that I mean traditional features of beauty.

Past southern greats like Padmini, Vijayantimala, Hema Malini to Sridevi or to a lesser extent Asin or Vidya , all have very beautiful features. (Though they'd be considered super fair (especially Hema or Vidya Balan) by southern standards). The only real exception is the Dusky Deepika padukone , pretty much the only darker skinned actress to have reached that level of fame from the south.

They don't have a luxury of people like a Kareena or Disha patani who have a solid base of super fair skin over which they can enhance all additional features.

Sridevi's case is special because , unlike most other Southern Successes in bollywood, she is not an Iyengar (top tier Brahmins of south) , who are generally considered super attractive.

 

[Madplayer]

South Indian actresses have to be incredibly good looking to even make it to Bollywood in the first place, and by that I mean traditional features of beauty.

Past southern greats like Padmini, Vijayantimala, Hema Malini to Sridevi or to a lesser extent Asin or Vidya , all have very beautiful features. (Though they'd be considered super fair (especially Hema or Vidya Balan) by southern standards). The only real exception is the Dusky Deepika padukone , pretty much the only darker skinned actress to have reached that level of fame from the south.

They don't have a luxury of people like a Kareena or Disha patani who have a solid base of super fair skin over which they can enhance all additional features.

Sridevi's case is special because , unlike most other Southern Successes in bollywood, she is not an Iyengar (top tier Brahmins of south) , who are generally considered super attractive.

Disha Patani and Vidya balan dont have fair complextion by any stretch of imagination. Neither does someone like Priyanka Chopra.

Not that it should matter.

 

[saadibaba]

RGV post is heart breaking if true. People who seem to have everything one can ever desire can actually be quite empty and miserable inside.

 

[Reddy]

RGV post is heart breaking if true. People who seem to have everything one can ever desire can actually be quite empty and miserable inside.

The message if from RGV's official facebook acount: https://www.facebook.com/notes/rgv/my-love-letter-to-sridevis-fans/936720359819363/
[MENTION=140515]Gubol123[/MENTION]

 

[hadi123]

Thousands of mourning fans have lined the streets of Mumbai to pay their respects to Sridevi Kapoor, the celebrated Bollywood actor who drowned in a hotel bathtub in Dubai over the weekend.

Her body was flown home on Tuesday night in a private plane owned by Anil Ambani, a Mumbai industrialist and entertainment baron.


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Early on Wednesday morning, fans had begun lining up along a security fence outside a private club near Sridevi’s home where her body had been laid out.

A string of luxury cars ferried family members, Bollywood stars and VIPs in through another gate, with squadrons of private guards keeping back crowds.

One mourner, a man who gave his name only as Prashant, arrived at 7am, hours before anyone was to be allowed in. “No matter how long I have to wait, I will wait,” he said, clutching a small bouquet of flowers. “I’ll wait until I’m able to pay my respects.”

“I saw all her movies,” he said, grief visible on his face.

Inside the club, the actor’s body was placed on a raised platform in a hall decorated with flowers. Her extended family, including her husband, the producer Boney Kapoor, and her two daughters, stood by the platform as fans and colleagues walked past in respect.

The family had requested that all media leave their cameras outside while viewing her body, but photographs emerged on news sites showing Sridevi’s body dressed in a vibrant magenta and gold sari with a heavy gold necklace and a large red bindi marking.

By late afternoon, her body, wrapped in an Indian flag, began its journey from the club to the crematorium, where her funeral took place according to Hindu customs. The body was carried in a truck decorated with flowers and a giant poster of the actor.

Sridevi, 54, was in Dubai for a wedding of an extended family member when she died on Saturday. Investigators in Dubai closed their case on Tuesday and handed the body to her family.

Condolences have poured in since the death of the actor, who redefined the importance of the female lead in India’s largely male-dominated film industry. Sridevi, who used only one name onscreen, began her film career as a child actor and went on to star in regional films in southern India before making her Bollywood debut in the late 1970s.

By the late 1980s, she was a name to reckon with in mainstream Hindi-language films and was able to command top billing and dominate screen space in a film industry in which the heroine’s role was largely relegated to a few songs and a handful of romantic scenes as the leading man’s love interest.

Despite a life spent entirely in the movie business, colleagues described Sridevi as quiet and shy until she faced the camera, when several of them recalled how she would “transform” into the character she was playing.

In 1997, she married Kapoor, a producer on many of her films, and stepped away from cinema for many years while she raised her two daughters. Her Twitter biography read: Actor-MOM-Housewife-Actor Again!

Over the last few years, Sridevi had been preparing her eldest daughter, Janhvi Kapoor, for her debut Bollywood film slated for release later this year.

Sridevi returned to films in 2012 with English Vinglish, in which she played a quiet housewife who remains largely in the background until she decides to learn English to fit in with her family.

In 2017, she starred in Mom,playing a woman out to seek vengeance for the rape of her teenage stepdaughter.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...oor-thousands-line-mumbai-streets-for-funeral

 

[SandyB]

Disha Patani and Vidya balan dont have fair complextion by any stretch of imagination. Neither does someone like Priyanka Chopra.

Not that it should matter.

Disha is fair, maybe not as much as Kareena or katrina (who is half white) . She's been bleached to Kareena level now.

 

[hadi123]

As the mystery around veteran Bollywood actress Sridevi’s sudden demise last week continued, her husband and film producer Boney Kapoor has opened up – perhaps for the first time to a friend – about his unscheduled trip to see his wife in Dubai, how they hugged and kissed when he surprised her and how he found her lying in a bathtub full of water without a drop of water spilling out.

Kapoor has recounted the “detailed account of what exactly transpired on the fateful evening of February 24” to his friend of 30 years, trade analyst Komal Nahta, who has reproduced the conversation in a blog shared on his official Twitter page.

Nahta wrote that Kapoor told him he pushed open the bathroom door 0 which had not been locked from inside – at around 8pm after getting no response to loud calls for Sridevi and a knock on the door. Earlier, there had been a lot of speculation about the time Kapoor had opened the bathroom door.
Nahta told IANS that the conversation happened on Wednesday before Sridevi’s funeral.
It was barely two hours after Kapoor surprised Sridevi at Dubai’s Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel that he faced the shock of her death, writes Nahta.

Kapoor told Nahta: “On morning, I spoke to her. When she told me, ‘Papa (that’s how she addressed him), I’m missing you’, I also told her that I was missing her a lot. But I didn’t tell her that I would be joining her in Dubai in the evening. (Daughter) Janhvi seconded my idea of going to Dubai because she was scared that, her mom, not used to being alone, would misplace her passport or some important document if she was alone.”

According to Kapoor, there had been only two occasions in the last 24 years when they had not travelled together abroad – when Sridevi had gone to New Jersey and Vancouver for two film appearances.
“Although I didn’t accompany her on those two trips, I made sure that my friend’s wife was with her on both occasions. The Dubai stay was the first time Sridevi was alone for two days,” he said.
Kapoor, Sridevi and their younger daughter were in Dubai for a family wedding which wrapped up on February 20. While Kapoor returned to attend an “important meeting” on February 22, Sridevi continued her stay in Dubai to shop for Janhvi and spent two days “relaxing in her hotel room”.

The producer told Nahta that he booked a 3.30pm flight to Dubai on February 24, and reached the hotel where his wife was staying at around 6.20pm Dubai time.

After reaching the hotel where the couple chatted for around 15 minutes, Kapoor freshened up and suggested they go on a “romantic dinner”.

Then Sridevi, who was in “relaxation mode”, went for a bath.

“I went to the living room while Sridevi went to the master bathroom,” Kapoor was quoted by Nahta as having said.

In the living room, Kapoor told Nahta that he was watching the South Africa-India cricket match for a few minutes followed by the Pakistan Super League cricket match highlights. After around 15-20 minutes, he was restless as it was around 8pm then and being a Saturday, he felt restaurants would fill up.
Nahta wrote: “Boney’s impatience made him shout out to Sridevi from the living room itself. After calling out to her twice, Boney lowered the volume of the TV. Still no reply. He then walked to the bedroom and knocked at the bathroom door and even called out to her. The unsuspecting husband, hearing the tap inside on, then called out ‘Jaan, Jaan’ still louder but got no reply, which was unusual.
“He panicked and opened the door which had not been bolted from inside, nervous but yet not at all prepared for what he was going to see. The tub was full of water and Sridevi was immersed completely, from head to toe, inside the tub. Devastated, he reached out to her but watching her motionless, he feared the worst.

“Sridevi had drowned! Boney’s world had come crashing down.”

http://www.gulf-times.com/story/583682/Opened-hotel-bathroom-door-to-find-Sridevi-dead-Bo

 

[TM Riddle]

She called him Papa?
That's.......weird.

 

[Pakistanian]

She must have had psychological issues if they couldn't let her be alone. They claimed thr longest she went by h3rself was 2 days, she must have been really sheltered and controlled

 

[DeadBall]

As the mystery around veteran Bollywood actress Sridevi’s sudden demise last week continued, her husband and film producer Boney Kapoor has opened up – perhaps for the first time to a friend – about his unscheduled trip to see his wife in Dubai, how they hugged and kissed when he surprised her and how he found her lying in a bathtub full of water without a drop of water spilling out.

Kapoor has recounted the “detailed account of what exactly transpired on the fateful evening of February 24” to his friend of 30 years, trade analyst Komal Nahta, who has reproduced the conversation in a blog shared on his official Twitter page.

Nahta wrote that Kapoor told him he pushed open the bathroom door 0 which had not been locked from inside – at around 8pm after getting no response to loud calls for Sridevi and a knock on the door. Earlier, there had been a lot of speculation about the time Kapoor had opened the bathroom door.
Nahta told IANS that the conversation happened on Wednesday before Sridevi’s funeral.
It was barely two hours after Kapoor surprised Sridevi at Dubai’s Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel that he faced the shock of her death, writes Nahta.

Kapoor told Nahta: “On morning, I spoke to her. When she told me, ‘Papa (that’s how she addressed him), I’m missing you’, I also told her that I was missing her a lot. But I didn’t tell her that I would be joining her in Dubai in the evening. (Daughter) Janhvi seconded my idea of going to Dubai because she was scared that, her mom, not used to being alone, would misplace her passport or some important document if she was alone.”

According to Kapoor, there had been only two occasions in the last 24 years when they had not travelled together abroad – when Sridevi had gone to New Jersey and Vancouver for two film appearances.
“Although I didn’t accompany her on those two trips, I made sure that my friend’s wife was with her on both occasions. The Dubai stay was the first time Sridevi was alone for two days,” he said.
Kapoor, Sridevi and their younger daughter were in Dubai for a family wedding which wrapped up on February 20. While Kapoor returned to attend an “important meeting” on February 22, Sridevi continued her stay in Dubai to shop for Janhvi and spent two days “relaxing in her hotel room”.

The producer told Nahta that he booked a 3.30pm flight to Dubai on February 24, and reached the hotel where his wife was staying at around 6.20pm Dubai time.

After reaching the hotel where the couple chatted for around 15 minutes, Kapoor freshened up and suggested they go on a “romantic dinner”.

Then Sridevi, who was in “relaxation mode”, went for a bath.

“I went to the living room while Sridevi went to the master bathroom,” Kapoor was quoted by Nahta as having said.

In the living room, Kapoor told Nahta that he was watching the South Africa-India cricket match for a few minutes followed by the Pakistan Super League cricket match highlights. After around 15-20 minutes, he was restless as it was around 8pm then and being a Saturday, he felt restaurants would fill up.
Nahta wrote: “Boney’s impatience made him shout out to Sridevi from the living room itself. After calling out to her twice, Boney lowered the volume of the TV. Still no reply. He then walked to the bedroom and knocked at the bathroom door and even called out to her. The unsuspecting husband, hearing the tap inside on, then called out ‘Jaan, Jaan’ still louder but got no reply, which was unusual.
“He panicked and opened the door which had not been bolted from inside, nervous but yet not at all prepared for what he was going to see. The tub was full of water and Sridevi was immersed completely, from head to toe, inside the tub. Devastated, he reached out to her but watching her motionless, he feared the worst.

“Sridevi had drowned! Boney’s world had come crashing down.”

http://www.gulf-times.com/story/583682/Opened-hotel-bathroom-door-to-find-Sridevi-dead-Bo

Seems more like a sensationalist piece rather than actual reporting which is to be expected from government drones ala KT and GN.