Hawa Hawaii, from Mr India, will be played, and everyone will marvel all over again at Sridevi walking an impossible line between comedy, camp and glamour. Sadma was Balu Mahendra’s remake of his own Tamil film Moondram Pirai, which also starred Sridevi. Karan Bali, film critic and director of An American in Madras, spoke about how Sridevi was, from the beginning, regarded as a more-than-capable actor, with well-received turns in films by K. Balachander, P. Bharathiraja and Balu Mahendra. “Actually no, because in Hindi cinema she reached the position where roles were being written around her and she could do heroine-centric cinema,” he says. These are fine performances, but limiting oneself to the serious stuff is to miss out on the comic mastery of Sridevi.

Source: Mint February 25, 2018 10:18 UTC