Celeb In The Spotlight: Sridevi Kapoor

As many may know, March is Women's History Month, and in honor of that we bring you the actress who has made quite a name for herself not only in Bollywood, but also in other mediums as well. We bring to you Sridevi Kapoor as our Celeb in the Spotlight!

Sridevi who is now known as Sridevi Kapoor, was born on August 13, 1963 to lawyer Ayyapan and his wife Rajeshwari in Meenampati village, Tamil Nadu. She has two siblings, a sister and a step brother. Born and brought up in Tamil Nadu, her native language is Tamil.

Sridevi started off her career at the young age of four in the Tamil movie Thunaivan and then went on to work as a child artist in many Telugu and Tamil movies. She was even recognized for her contributions with Kerala State Government Award for the best child artiste. Along with the Tamil movie industry, she got a break in Hindi cinema when she starred as a child artist in the movie Julie.

Over the years she went on to play various roles and finally got her big break and recognition as an actress in the movie Moondru Mudichu (1976), opposite Kamal Hasan and Rajnikanth, and with whom she went on to star in many blockbuster Tamil films. After doing various movies for the Tamil film industry, Sridevi re-joined the Bollywood industry as an adult in 1979, in the movie Solva Sawan opposite Amol Palekar. However, she was still more active in the Tamil industry and did only a few roles here and there in Indian films.

Having done numerous films in her native place, she decided it was time to get back to Bollywood and came back with a bang in the 1983 movie Himmatwala, opposite Jeetendra. The movie went on to be a blockbuster hit, thus naming Sridevi as an actress par excellence. After that there was no stopping her as she went on to do many movies such as Tohfa, Mawaali, Karma, Aakhri Raasta, Jaag Utha Insan, Ram Avtar, Janbaaz, Nagina, Mr. India, Khuda Gawah, Chandni, Chaalbaaz, Lamhe and many more!

Due to her excellent acting skills and exceptional roles she was nominated for the FilmFare awards numerous times as a best actress. Her first Filmfare nomination for best actress was for Sadma, and that started the string of nominations for roles in Chandni, Khuda Gawah, Gumrah, Judaai and Laadla. Despite being nominated numerous times, she has only won the Filmfare best actress award twice, for the films Chaalbaaz and Lamhe.

After making the right choices professionally, Sridevi went on to make the right personal decision in her life and got married to director Boney Kapoor, brother of her co-star from many films, Anil Kapoor. The two got married in 1996 and now have two daughters, Jhanvi and Khushi. 

After taking a long hiatus from movies of at least 15 years, Sridevi finally made a comeback in 2012 with Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish. The movie garnered a lot of praise and critical acclaim, and her role was appreciated by all! After the success of the film, it is said that she is the only actress in Bollywood who made a positive and blockbuster comeback after a really long hiatus! The film garnered her a lot of praise which also resulted in her being nominated for best actress in various award ceremonies and she even went on to win quite a few of them!

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