Sridevi had already become a big, probably the biggest female star in the Tamil film industry. However, she was yet to gain an unprecedented popularity that no Hindi film heroine had seen before. In fact, she was the first female superstar of the Hindi films in the true sense. In 1987, when Mr India released, Sridevi was the biggest draw and she proved her worth when Hawa Hawaai took India by storm. As is the norm in the Hindi film industry, she didn’t have the same kind of box office pull she once enjoyed.

Source: Hindustan Times February 25, 2018 06:22 UTC