Queen of Hearts : The Life of Sridevi
She was a diva, a dancing queen and a comedienne par excellence. An actress who set the box office on fire in a male-dominated Bollywood. What made her tick? What did it take to work in films across five languages and churn out so many hits?
None of the fame and success came easily for her. An outsider in Bollywood, she was mocked for her poor accent and dubbed ‘Ms Thunder Thighs’. Sridevi had to reinvent herself many a time. Then, after she’d left it all to focus on her life as a wife and mother, she made a brilliant comeback as the protagonist of English Vinglish. This book traces Sridevi’s journey and her battles against odds, and is a tribute to her as an actor and as a woman.
