Sridevi's life recap by RGV

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MY LOVE LETTER TO SRIDEVI’S FANS.

YES like millions of you, I too believed that she was the most beautiful and desirable woman ever and we all know that she was the biggest super star of the country and ruled the silver screen as a main heroine for more than 20 years. 

But that’s just a part of the story. However shocked and sad I feel about Sridevi's death, it’s finally once again a rude reminder about how unpredictable, cruel,fragile and mysterious that both life and death are.

After her death, more than you all there is definitely much more for me to say than what most people are saying now about, how beautiful she was, what a great actress she was, how her death affected them, " RIP"s etc etc 

That’s because I had an opportunity to be close to her in the course of my two Films with her Kshanakshanam and Govinda Govinda. Sridevi's life is a classic case of how a celebrity’s persons actual life is completely different from how the rest of the outside world perceives it. 

Sridevi's life is a classic case of how each person's actual life is completely different from how the rest of the  outside world perceives it. For many, Sridevi's life was perfect. Beautiful face, great talent, seemingly stable family with two beautiful daughters -- From outside  everything looked so enviable and desirable. But was Sridevi a very happy person and did she lead a very happy life?

I know her life from the time I met her. I saw with my own eyes how her life was like a bird in the sky till her father’s death and then became like a bird in a cage due to her overprotective mother.

In those days actors used to be only paid in mostly black money and due to fear of tax raids her father used to trust friends and relatives and everyone of them betrayed her the moment her father died. Coupled with this the ignorant mother made many wrong investments in litigated properties and all those mistakes combined made her almost penny less by the time Boney came into her life.

Boney himself was in huge debts and all he could afford to give her was a fat shoulder to cry on.

Her mother became a mental patient because of a  wrong surgery on her brain in USA and somewhere along the way her younger sister Srilatha eloped and got married to their neighbours son. The mother before dying put all properties in Sridevi's name but her sister put a case on Sridevi claiming that her mother was insane and not in her senses when she signed the will.

So in effect the woman desired by millions in the world was all alone and almost penny less in the world except for one Boney. Boney ‘s mother portrayed her as a home breaker and publically punched her in the stomach in a five star hotel lobby for what she did to Boney’s first wife Mona.

Except for the short glimmer of English Vinglish, Sridevi has been pretty much an extremely unhappy woman. The uncertainty of the future, the ugly turns and twists in her private life left deep scars in the super stars sensitive mind and there after  she was never at peace. 

She went through so much in her life and due to her early career entry as a child artiste, life never gave her time to grow up at a normal pace. More than the external peace, her internal mental state was of a high degree of concern and this forced her to look at her own self. 

She was the most beautiful woman for so many people. But did she think she was beautiful ? Yes she did, but every actresses nightmare is age and she was no exception. For years she was doing ocassional cosmetic surgeries the effects of which can be clearly seen.

She always came across as a little uptight but that’s because she built a psychological wall around her as she was scared of anybody to really see what's going on within her. She was panicky about anybody knowing what her insecurities were.

Not because of her fault, but because she was thrust with fame from a very young age it never gave her a chance to be independent and be what she could really be and what she really wanted to be.

She had to put on the make up and be somebody else not just in front of the camera, but also to put a psychological make up to hide her real self behind the camera. 

She was being constantly directed by the motives of her parents, her relatives, her husband and to an extent even her own children. She was scared whether her daughters would be accepted or not like most star parents do.

Sridevi is actually a child trapped in a woman’s body. She is naive as a person, but suspicious because of her bitter experiences which is not a very good combination. Keeping the speculations on her death aside I generally don't say "Rest In Peace" after people die, but in her case I want to really say this because I very strongly believe that she would finally and truly rest in peace now for the first time in her life because she died. 

From my personal experience with her, the only time I ever saw her in peace was in front of the camera that too only between Action and Cut. That’s because she could cut off the harsh reality and escape into her own fantasy world.

That’s why now I am sure she will be at peace forever because she’s finally far far away from what gave her and was giving her so much pain. 

RIP Sridevi, but I assure you that the world won’t rest in peace for doing this to you.

We the fans and your near ones have given you only suffering by making you slog in every which way ever since you were a child but you gave us only joy and happiness. Yes it’s not a fair deal but it’s too late to do anything now.

I now have visions of you flying like a free bird across heavenly landscapes with true peace and happiness in your eyes.

I don’t believe in reincarnation but I truly want to believe in it now because we fans in our next birth deserve to experience you once again and this time we will try our best to make  amendments and make ourselves worthy enough to deserve you.

Please give us that one chance Sridevi because we all truly love you.

I can go on writing like this but I can’t stop my tears any more... RGV

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Sridevi was a child who had no clue what she was doing when she first faced the camera as Lord Muruga in the Tamil film Thunaivan (released in 1969). Thirteen years, and still clueless, was also too tender an age to doll up in a sari and look grown-up as the leading lady of Moondru Mudichu (1976), a Tamil film directed by K. Balachander. The young actors of that Tamil film went on to become huge, mega stars, are in the news today for different reasons - Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as two aspiring netas of 2018. The trait of simplicity stayed with Sridevi through all the vicissitudes of life and she saw too many unpleasant ones at too young an age. Sridevi was someone who lived much of her life before time. While she gained respect as a professional actress, her personal life crumbled. Her mother died in a freak surgery in the US where the wrong side of her brain was operated. She sued, Boney Kapoor by her side. When she won, her sister Srilatha legally sought her share of the "inheritance". Sridevi won't be around to see her daughter Jahnvi's debut this July when her first film Dhadak is released. Whichever way you look at it, the death of Sridevi on February 24, 2018, was untimely and tragic. RIP to a simple girl and an incredible actress.

Nawaz Sharif ousted by Pakistan's Supreme Court

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with his son Hussain Nawaz

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigned following the judgment despite having reservations on the verdict. Following the judgment, the Pakistan Cabinet stands dissolved. The court also ordered a criminal investigation and trial against Nawaz Sharif and his family.

• The court disqualified him from office over allegations detailed in the Panama Papers. The disqualification was for life, that was the law for the moment.
• The court ruled Sharif  “is not honest … [and] therefore, he is disqualified to be a Member of ”parliament,” and, consequently, the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• Nawaz Sharif not only served as chairman of the board of a Dubai-based company Capital FZE, he also drew a salary of 10,000 dirhams between Aug 7, 2006 and April 20, 2014 — till nearly a year after assuming office. The sticking point was that Sharif did not declare this income in his nomination papers.
• UAE's labour laws mandate that all employees must receive a salary through a bank account, failing which the firm can be blacklisted and shut down. This technicality proved to be the former prime minister's undoing.
• Where respondent did not disclose his assets, it would amount to furnishing a false declaration on solemn affirmation in violation of the law and he is not honest, the court concluded. Sharif would, therefore, have to go. All five judges concurred.
• Panama Papers documents alleged that three of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s four children—Maryam Safdar, Hasan Nawaz, and Hussain Nawaz Sharif—used shell companies to buy property in London. Nawaz Sharif, whose party was democratically elected in 2013, has denied any wrongdoing.
• A document was purported to be written in February 2006 but court-appointed investigators concluded that it was forged, noting that it used the Calibri font, a Microsoft licensed typeface that was not commercially available at the time.
  

• Sharif was in his third term as prime minister. He previously served from 1990 to 1993, when he was dismissed by the president on corruption charges, and again from 1997 to 1999, when he was ousted in a military coup. This is his third term as prime minister, that ended abruptly by Supreme Court judgment.
• Next general elections are scheduled for 2018.
• None of Pakistan’s 15 prime ministers have completed their full five-year term, victims of military coups, corruption, and, even death.
• Sohail Warraich, a prominent Pakistani journalist remarked “It was a colossal miscalculation. He probably thought they’d take it to the edge and then let him off. He didn’t read the signs.” It was a catastrophic miscalculation.
• Justice Azmat Saeed responded with “we cannot resort to exceptionalism by making a departure from the settled law and inventing a new set of rules merely because Respondent No.1 holds the Office of the Prime Minister. The last time in our legal history, when such a course of action was followed, it had tragic consequences.”
• A barrister opines that the “tragic consequences” were visited not only upon that prime minister but on the nation as a whole and the long-term credibility of the Supreme Court itself. If there was ever a judgement that begs review, this is it.
• Whoever replaces Sharif will have to tackle Pakistan’s worsening ties with the United States, frayed relations with India, and persistent attacks by Islamist militants including the Pakistani Taliban and Islamic State. The economy is benefiting from vast investment from China, but economists are concerned about falling currency reserves and dwindling exports.
• Yet by respecting Supreme Court verdict and resigning as PM, Nawaz Sharif effectively thwarted Army's intervention in political power play.
• With Sharif's exit our problems with Pakistan won't get vanished, rather they would get more complicated. With no aid from USA, internal economy in doldrums, Pakistan will continue to rely on China for assistance and status quo will continue.

Through the Panama Papers judgement, the balance of power had been tilted in favour of the Supreme Court and the qualification of parliamentarians had been threatened. The parliamentarians, feeling threatened, might react by getting together for a constitutional amendment aimed at curtailing or restricting the scope of powers of Supreme Court under Article 62 of the Constitution.

My View:

Pakistan Supreme Court should be appreciated for enforcing law equally even for a prime minister. Even though the offence is relatively smaller with no loss to exchequer, the law doesn't provide any exceptional treatment to VIP's. This is similar to "Prime Minister jailed for traffic offence". At times it could push the nation into turmoil. Recollect what happened in 1975 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was unseated by Allahabad High Court for a small election offence. It ended up in emergency and political unrest for several years. In a democracy, law must be enforced without discrimination, at any cost without fear of consequences. Kudos to Pakistan Supreme Court for its fearless judgment. Our SC Judges must learn some lessons from our neighbor, whose democracy is far junior to us and relatively immature.