Name: If not in life, can we please allow Sridevi some dignity in death?
Uploaded: 2018-02-27T22:20:16+0000
Channel: Kaveree Bamzai
Description: The star entered Bollywood in the 1980s — the film industry then was a misogynistic wasteland.

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That she survived and thrived Bollywood is a tribute to her undeniable charisma.

&lt;p id='p_1'&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dailyo.in/variety/sridevi-sridevi-movies-julie-chaalbaaz-chandni/story/1/22557.html' target='_blank'&gt;Sridevi&lt;/a&gt;, the magnificent actor who straddled the wasteland of 1980s misogynist cinema, very rarely had any dignity accorded to her. A child star who had worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam movies, one can only imagine the sacrifices she must have had to make, unknowingly to her, to become her family's breadwinner, much as another child star J Jayalalithaa before her.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

If not in life, can we please allow Sridevi some dignity in death?

The star entered Bollywood in the 1980s — the film industry then was a misogynistic wasteland.