Sridevi And Boney Kapoor Controversial Love Story: 5 Unknown Facts About The Couple That Will Shock You
Updated on: 03 October, 2023 02:32 PM IST |Shweta Shah
Sridevi and Boney Kapoor had a fairytale love story mixed with fair share of controversies. But did you know, Sridevi was good friends with Boneys first wife Mona Shourie before the filmmaker left the latter? As Boney kapoor reveals some shocking details about Sridevis death, lets have a look at their controversial love story and unknown facts.
1. Sridevi and Boney Kapoor's first meeting
The former couple met in the 1970s, when Boney Kapoor was absolutely smitten by Sridevi when he saw her in a Tamil film. At the India Today Woman Summit, the filmmaker recalled the first time he met the actress.He said, "It happened the first time I saw her on screen; this was probably in the late 1970s, when I saw one of her Tamil films. I said to myself, This is someone I would want to have in my film."
Boney was so highly impressed by Sridevi that he had to meet her in person. Back then, the actress could barely speak Hindi and English.
He further added, "I went up to her set and met her. When I met her, it was almost like a dream come true. You know, she is an introvert and doesn't communicate very easily with strangers, and I was a stranger at that point in time. The few words that she spoke in broken Hindi and broken English touched me and moved me, and I got more curious to know her."
2. Boney Kapoor was adamant to cast Sridevi in Mr. India
Speaking of being smitten by the actress, Boney Kapoor was adamant about casting Sridevi for Shekhar Kapur's Mr. India. The movie also featured Anil Kapoor in a leading role. Back in the day, there was no concept of hiring managers for actors.It was Sridevi's mother who used to manage her work. Boney even agreed to pay the actress more than what her mother demanded. Sridevi's mother asked for 10 lakhs as her fees, but the filmmaker ended up offering her 11 lakhs.
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In the same summit, Boney Kapoor said, "Sri was the highest paid actor among the females. I knew she had done a film for around Rs 8–8.5 lakh, and probably this was her mother's way of negotiating. I heard her figure, and I said, 'No, I'll pay Rs 11 lakh.' She thought I was a mad producer from Bombay who was offering more than what she asked for! Well, that's how I got close to her mother."
3. Sridevi was good friends with Boney's first wife, Mona Shourie
Here's the shocking controversy we were talking about. While everyone knows Sridevi was Boney Kapoor's second wife, not everyone knows what exactly happened in the filmmaker's first marriage.Mona Shourie and Boney Kapoor fell in love in 1983, and she was 19 when she married Boney. The filmmaker was 10 years older than Mona. If reports were to be believed, Sridevi was "good friends" with Boney's first wife, Mona Shourie.
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Apparently, Sridevi used to stay at the Kapoor house with the former couple and considered Boney his brother. She even tied him a rakhi. Later, an affair started between Boney and Sridevi, and soon she was pregnant with his first child.
Boney and Mona never really divorced each other. The two separated in 1996 after the filmmaker tied the knot with the legendary actress. Sridevi was quite pissed with the fact that Mona was still his legally wed wife while she would only remain his mistress even after their wedding.
In an interview with Stardust, Mona Shourie opened up about how she was shattered after Boney fell out of love with her.
She said, "He (Boney) was 10 years older than me. I was 19 when I married him. So I literally grew up with him. Ours was a 13-year-old marriage. So it came as a shock when I realized that my husband was in love with somebody else. There was nothing left in the relationship to give it a chance because Sridevi was already with a child."
4. The controversial affairs of Sridevi
Before she tied the knot with Boney Kapoor, the English Vinglish actress was linked with many A-listed Bollywood actors, such as Mithun Chakraborty and Jeetendra. In an interview back in the day, Sridevi once said that she wouldn't ever be with a married man or be someone's second wife. Ironic, isn't it?Sridevi and Mithun Chakraborty grew closer on the sets of the 1984 release, Jaag Utha Insaan. The actor was already married to Yogeeta Bali and found it difficult to keep up with the two ladies. A frustrated Sridevi was tired of being the second woman. However, Yogeeta straight-up denied leaving Mithun. That's when the actress decided to cut all ties with Chakraborty and go on to marry Boney Kapoor.
As for Jeetendra, rumors suggest the two shared the same room during the shoot of one of their movies. Their romance brewed after the success of Himmatwala. However, Sridevi denied all the rumors.
In an interview in 1984, the actress rubbished all the rumors about her alleged affair with Jeetendra and said, “Never! Honestly, till this day, I have never been to Jeetu’s hotel room, nor has he ever come home. I know people have been saying a lot of bad things, but this is the truth. I am an innocent girl. I’m not a fool, but I am not a calculative person either. And I am certainly not a man-eater.”
5. The real reason of Sridevi's death
What has been a mystery since 2018 finally has an answer. Sridevi's mysterious demise shocked the nation and left fans heartbroken. She was in Dubai to attend a family wedding when she accidentally drowned in a bathtub and breathed her last.In a recent interview, Boney Kapoor finally broke the silence on how Sridevi died. He blamed it on her rigorous diet, which caused low blood pressure and often blackouts. A similar episode of blacking out happened on her last day, when she lost consciousness and drowned in a tub filled with water.
"It was not a natural death; it was an accidental death. I had decided not to speak about it because I spoke about it for almost 24-48 hours together when I was being investigated and interrogated," said the filmmaker.
