Playlist: Sridevi's most memorable songs over the years, from 'Naino Me Sapna' to 'Navrai Majhi'
Sridevi was the ultimate desire: Men fantasised about her, women wanted to be her. There was no doubt that during the s and the s, much before the Madhuri Dixit madness, if there was one name that guaranteed footfalls in theatres, it was indeed Sridevi’s. She was the first female superstar of Bollywood, so much so that she was called the ‘female Amitabh Bachchan’ in the showbiz.
Sridevi could act, she could dance and she could look the ethereal diva she was, every time. After Vyjayanthimala, Waheeda Rahman and Hema Malini, it was Sridevi who held the torch of dancing divas in Bollywood. She also carried the legacy of south Indian actresses who made it big in the Hindi film industry with their charm and impeccable dancing skills.
Here’s a look at some of her all-time hit dance numbers.
Naino Me Sapna:
If there was a film that opened doors for Sridevi’s commercial film career, it was Himmatwala co-starring Jeetendra. Those were also the days when women on-screen began to be objectified like never before, and hence Sridevi was also not spar
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When she burst on the Hindi film scene with her first big hit Himmatwala (), who could have predicted Sridevi’s spectacular rise over the next ten-odd years? In the song Naino mein sapna, emblematic of the film, she wore thick makeup, glittery Amrapali costumes and did smooth synchronized dance steps with co-star Jeetendra on a beach littered with feather dusters and painted pots. Or – since it was a taming-of-the-shrew kind of film -- brandished whips and wore tight ‘hot pants,’ earning epithets like ‘Thunder Thighs.’
No one was more surprised by the film’s success than Sridevi -- because her first Hindi film Solva Sawan (, remake of Tamil film 16 Vayathinile) had bombed and she was ready to go back to Madras where she was already a well-established leading actress. (Even Sadma, Hindi remake of Tamil film Moondaram Pirai, which released in the same year – – flopped).
But she stayed o
Nainon Mein Sapna Lyrics &#; Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar