February 2018 brought with it devastating news. Sridevi was no more. An at-the-time inexplicable drowning incident in the UAE whilst the veteran acting legend was attending nephew Mohit Marwah's wedding festivities, left everyone baffled.
6 years on, her legacy only appears to be further cementing itself in the conscience of people. Daughter and actor Janhvi Kapoor for one, has been rather vocal about honouring her mother, one project at a time, through her craft. Carving women's worth in cinema Sridevi kickstarted her glorious career spanning decades at the tender age of 4.
While she of course initially catered to the templated, reductive tropes for women when it came to her choice in films, she soon enough wielded her stardom to catapult herself into the then-nascent era of women-oriented films. In a recent interview, remembering the legacy established by her mother and her peers, Janhvi highlighted how women-centric cinema did not necessarily need to be a masala flick to have audience pull. Waheeda Rehman's Khamoshi (1970), Rekha's Khubsoorat (1980) and Ijaazat (1987) and Sridevi's Sadma (1983) were a few examples cited by the actor.
It is worth noting here that Janhvi's second feature film was Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020). The film may have been severely panned, but it actually set the tone for the kind of films one could expect the young actor to put her time and energy into. To her credit, Janhvi has categorically attempted to steer clear of commercial tropes, .