Sridevi would have been 55 on August 13, 2018. Her sudden death from a cardiac arrest in Dubai on February 24 shocked her admirers and sparked off an outpouring of grief and remembrances. The movie star’s roles spawned five languages, and at the height of her career in the 1980s, she had achieved a hard-won superstardom that matched, if not eclipsed, some of her male co-stars, as our quiz reveals.
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