I was struck that this first female superstar of Indian cinema was sitting quietly in a corner of a glittering filmy party. It turned out that the bigger honour was that she had seen one of my films and appreciated my work. It lay in the fact that Sridevi rose to become India’s first female superstar in overwhelmingly male, and male-dominated industries and work spaces. Sridevi’s searing talent almost forced commercial directors and producers to write meatier and more meaningful or performance-oriented roles for the heroine. Sridevi seemingly snatched superstardom from a society that had until then not conceived consciously that there could be a female superstar.

Source: Hindustan Times February 26, 2018 01:30 UTC