Sridevi Kapoor, Bollywood’s First Female Superstar, Dies at 54

Author: MAGGIE ASTOR and CHRISTINA CARON / Source: New York Times

Sridevi Kapoor, a Bollywood actress who starred in hundreds of films and was known as India’s first female superstar, died on Saturday in Dubai.

She was 54.

The Dubai police

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that she had drowned in a hotel bathtub after losing consciousness. Initial reports had said that the cause of death was cardiac arrest.

Sridevi, who went by a single name professionally, was one of the only Bollywood actresses to headline box-office hits without a man beside her in a leading role.

“Saddened by the untimely demise of noted actor Sridevi,” Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India,

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. “She was a veteran of the film industry, whose long career included diverse roles and memorable performances.”

Sridevi was 4 when she appeared in her first film, the start of a career of that would span more than four decades.

She worked on Tamil-, Telugu-, Malayalam- and Kannada-language films in South India before moving to the…

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