Sridevi

Sridevi Kapoor born Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan was an Indian film actress who has worked in Tamil Hindi Telugu Malayalam and Kannada films She has been called the first female superstar of Hindi cinema Sridevi started her career as a child artist in MA Thirumughams devotional Thunaivan at the age of four and continued to act as a child artist in Tamil Telugu Malayalam and Kannada films She made her Bollywood debut as a child artist in the hit Julie 1975 and played her first adult role at age 13 with the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu 1976 Subsequently Sridevi established herself as one of the leading actresses of Tamil and Telugu cinema with roles such as 16 Vayathinile 1977 Sigappu Rojakkal 1978 Varumayin Niram Sivappu 1980 Meendum Kokila 1981 Premabhishekam 1981 Moondram Pirai 1982 Aakhari Poratam 1988 Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari 1990 and Kshana Kshanam 1991 In Bollywood she made her debut as a lead actress in Solva Sawan 1978 and gained wide public attention with the movie Himmatwala 1983 In 2012 Sridevi returned to films after a 15yearlong hiatus with English Vinglish and became the only actress in the history of Hindi and Tamil cinema to make a highly successful comeback In 2013 the Government of India awarded her Padma Shri the fourth highest civilian honor She was also voted Indias Greatest Actress in 100 Years in a CNNIBN national poll conducted in 2013 on the occasion of the Centenary of Indian Cinema On February 24 2018 Sridevi was found dead in her guest room at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai United Arab Emirates The official coroners report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub with unconsciousness cited as a contributing factor