The Bollywood Queen, Sridevi, is no more

Sridevi Kapoor, who is popularly known as only Sridevi, passed away on Saturday night (24 February 2018) at the age of 54 due to cardiac arrest in the UAE. According to her brother-in-law, Sanjay Kapoor, the actress was there along with her husband, producer Boney Kapoor, and daughter, Khushi, for attending a family wedding.

Sridevi, who is also called the Queen of Bollywood, started acting at the age of four making her debut as a child artist in M.A. Thirumugam’s devotional drama film “Thunaivan”. Since then, she went on appearing in films in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages. However, she was absent from film industry for 15 years since 1997, but made her comeback in 2012 with the blockbuster “English Vinglish”. In her acting career which extended over five decades, she starred in more than 150 films. Some of her box office hit movies are “Himmatwala”, “Mr. India”, “Chandni”, “ChaalBaaz” and “Sadma”.

She was one of the few Indian female actresses who had the ability of making movie box office success without the support of a male hero. Her performance on the silver screen helped her bagged five Filmfare awards out of 10 she was nominated for.  For her contribution to Indian cinema, the government of India awarded her Padma Shri- the fourth highest civilian honor- in 2013.

People from different walks of life, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, actress Priyanka Chopra, expressed condolences for her untimely death. The actress died still relatively young.