Sridevi: Bollywood superstar dies at 54 of heart attack

BBC     25th February, 2018 08:24:26

Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor has died once a heart attack, her family says. She was 54.

The actress well-known simply as Sridevi died in Dubai, wherever she was attending a family wedding.

From the age of 4, she had worked in films in the Tamil, Telugu, Malaylam, South Dravidian and Hindi languages.

She was thought-about one in every of the only a few Indian female superstars capable of huge box workplace success while not the support of a male hero.

Sridevi's husband boned Kapoor and daughter Khushi were together with her once she died, reports say.

Why was Sridevi such a huge box workplace draw?

She debuted as a lead actress in a very bollywood film in 1978, shortly changing into one in every of India's biggest film stars.

Over 5 decades, she asterisked in additional than a hundred and fifty films, as well as such movie industry classics as man india, Chandni, ChaalBaaz and Sadma.

The versatile actress set to take a break from the film industry once the release of Judaai in 1997.

She created a comeback in 2012, starring in English Vinglish.

In 2013, the Indian government awarded her the Padma Shri - the fourth highest civilian honour.