7 Interesting Facts About Sridevi

Producer:  Aditi Giri

On screen, she was called as Sridevi but her real name was Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan.

Sridevi was just 4 years, when she made her debut in the 1969 film Thunaivan.

At the age of 13, she played a 25-year-old Rajinikanth’s stepmother in Moondru Mudichu’.

While shooting for the song ‘Na Jaane Kaha Se Aayi Hai’ she was down with 103 degree high fever.

Sridevi was the highest-paid Hindi actress from 1985 to 1992.

In 1993, Steven Spielberg offered her a role in his iconic film Jurrasic Park. However she declined the same.

She named her daughters Janhvi and  Khushi after the names of the heroines in Boney Kapoor’s films Judaai and Hamara Dil Aapke Pass Hai.