Sridevi plays the shapeshifting Rajni who enters the life of Raj, played by Rishi Kapoor. So, I cancelled some other dance and fight movies and told her to concentrate on Nagina.’ In an interaction with Raj Chengappa in 1987, Rajeshwari concurred: ‘It was her first real heroine-oriented Hindi film and I knew she would play it superbly. Perhaps this was the opportunity she was waiting for, the chance to prove that she could carry a film solo. One look at the script and she told her mother that she was doing the film. A distraught Malhotra now rang up Sridevi, who was down with high fever. He narrated it first to Jaya Prada, but she rejected it outright. Filmmaker Harmesh Malhotra was running around with a script titled Nagina, revolving around the myth of an ichhadhari (shapeshifting) serpent. But the snakes could have well been a premonition-an omen for a film that would catapult her to another dizzying peak. Given that she was the numero uno star, there were perhaps foes aplenty. People tell me that dreaming of snakes means that you have a lot of enemies.’ Most of the time I dream of horrible things like ghosts, phantoms and snakes. In an interview with Cine Blitz in 1985, Sridevi had said: ‘I dream a lot, every night in fact. Gerson Da Cunha, advertising veteran and actor, dies at 92.‘Gandhi’s Assassin’: How VD Savarkar converted Nathuram Godse to his anti-Muslim cause.Why it’s not really shocking that a young woman is involved in the ‘Bulli Bai’ case.How a handful of prehistoric geniuses led humanity’s technological revolution.Early third wave data from Mumbai: Severity low, oxygen needs low, but puzzling hospitalisation rate.The big news: India issues new quarantine rules for foreign arrivals, and nine other top stories.Demand for antibody cocktail soars, clogs hospitals, despite Omicron reducing its effectiveness.BJP supporters have their own app to hijack Twitter trends and manipulate WhatsApp.Watch: Comedian Shyam Rangeela hilariously re-creates Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gym visit.

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