Sridevi’s Mortal Remains To Be Flown in From Dubai On Monday. R.I.P. Sridevi.

Veteran Actress Sridevi (54) passed away following a massive cardiac arrest in her hotel room in the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Dubai, at 11pm on Saturday. She reportedly had a fainting spell in her bathroom and was immediately rushed to Rashid Hospital in Dubai. Sridevi who was born in Sivakasi went on to rule Bollywood industry in her career. She's fondly called as the first Female Super Star of Hindi Cinema.

She had gone to U.A.E. along with her husband Boney Kapoor and younger daughter Khushi to attend nephew and actor Mohit Marwah's wedding, which was held in another emirate, Ras Al Khaimah. While some of the family members returned from Dubai after the wedding, Sridevi, Boney and Khushi stayed back. Ironically, her elder daughter Jahnvi could not be with her for the family wedding since she was shooting in Mumbai for her debut film Dhadak. Something that one is sure that Jahnvi will regret all her life.

It is reported that she took a lot of hydroxyl drugs trying to keep her weight down. These drugs kill your hunger, heighten your metabolic rate and make heart beat faster. Luckily for her she died of a heart attack. Most people get a severe stroke and survive and live  like a vegetable. May she rest in peace

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "Saddened by the untimely demise of noted actor Sridevi. She was a veteran of the film industry, whose long career included diverse roles and memorable performances. My thoughts are with her family and admirers in this hour of grief. May her soul rest in peace." Similarly, the entire bollywood fraternity as well as her legion of fans took to various platforms of social networking on the internet to express their shock and offer deepest condolences to the bereaved family.

Sri Devi was very close to her mom Rajeshwari and she had a very protective childhood. Her mom's loss was a huge blow to her. Her father Ayyappan was a Tamilian and her mom was an Andhraite. She had a younger sister Sri Latha and it was her mom who guided Sridevi in both her personal and professional life.

In an industry dominated by male superstars, Sridevi reversed the trend by her sheer acting prowess. Her name, most of the times, was a guarantee enough for a film's success.

An extremely shy person in real life, Sridevi came alive in front of the cameras, playing a variety of roles. Such was her popularity that her style and dance moves would be copied by her fans. She was 'Miss Hawa Hawaaii' and 'Chandni' for them. 

   

Sridevi started acting at the age of four and made her debut with M A Thirumugham's Thunaivan. She continued acting in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films but it was her career in Bollywood that made her a household name in the country.

She made her Bollywood debut as a child artiste in 1975 hit Julie but continued ruling the South Indian film industry where she established herself as a leading heroine with films such as 16 Vayathinile, Sigappu Rojakkal, Meendum Kokila and Moondram Pirai. In Bollywood, she made her debut in 1978 as a lead actor in Solva Sawan opposite Amol Palekar.

She gained commercial success with the 1983 film Himmatwala opposite Jeetendra, which also established her as one of the best dancers in cinema.

The year 1983 also saw Sridevi give stellar performances in both critically acclaimed and box-office hits such as Sadma, where she played the role of a woman who loses her memory.

Both she and actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan played the roles in the Hindi remake of their 1982 Tamil movie, Moondram Pirai. The climax of the heart-wrenching movie was deemed as poetic as the entire plot, with the song 'Ae zindagi gale laga le' as an ode to the philosophy of uncertainty in life.

Sridevi followed it up with a number of commercial hits such as Mawaali, Tohfa, Masterji and Nazrana.

In 1987 came Shekhar Kapur's Mr India, a film which was produced by her future husband Boney Kapoor. Sridevi gave a memorable performance as a crime reporter Seema Sohni. She was one of the few female actors who left the audience spellbound with both her comic timing and sensuality.

How her undercover scribe transformed into Ms Hawa Hawaaii, thanks to her dancing skills in one of the popular songs, is one of the most memorable scenes of the film.

Owing to the cult status the song went on to achieve, the Kavita Krishnamurthy number has been recreated a number of times in films such as Shaitan and most recently in Vidya Balan's Tumhari Sulu. And so will 'Kaate nahi katte', an iconic sultry number which saw the actor romance an invisible man in a song revelling in a never-before-seen boldness and fantasy.

Filmmaker Yash Chopra cast her in the title role of Chandni in the 1989 film, another iconic film of her career. Such was her performance in the film that fans came to recognise her with the name of Chandni.

Impressed with her performance in the film, Chopra cast her again in Lamhe in a dual role, where she played the mother and the daughter.

It did not do well at the box office at that time but has come to be known one of the best films of Sridevi, Chopra and Anil Kapoor's careers. The film was said to be ahead of its times as it dealt with a woman falling for an older man who is in love with her dead mother.

Her other major box office hits of the era were Chaalbaaz, where she played the role of twins, Nagina, and Khuda Gawah opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

Her pairing with Anil Kapoor, her Mr India co-star and brother-in-law, was particularly successful and she would work with him again in Laadla and Judaai.

After Judaai, Sridevi took a break from acting to focus on her marriage with Boney Kapoor.  She had two daughters -- Jahnvi and Khushi.

The actor made a successful comeback to cinema 15 years later with Gauri Shinde's  English Vinglish, playing a housewife who learns English after feeling left out in her family.

She also had a starring role in Tamil film Puli and followed English Vinglish with another successful outing in Mom, which also featured Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Akshaye Khanna.

The actor's elder daughter Jahnvi is on the cusp of her own cinematic journey with Dhadak, a remake of the Marathi blockbuster Sairat. Dhadak is slated to release on 6^th July, 2018, unfortunately Sridevi will not be there to witness it.

Mortal remains of Sridevi is expected to be brought via a chartered flight on Monday evening.