Sridevi, Shashi Kapoor remembered at 90th Academy Awards

LOS ANGELES: The Bollywood’s big stars Sridevi and Shashi Kapoor who recently died were remembered at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony in Memoriam section acts as a tribute to the film world’s great and good who have sadly passed away.

Sridevi, 54, mysteriously died in after drowning in her hotel bathtub, according to postmortem report, while Kapoor died last year in December. He was 79 and had been ill for years

Sridevi, considered the first female superstar of Indian cinema, made 300 films in several languages over 50 years. Some of her finest performances are in the films Sadma, Mr India, Chandni and English Vinglish.

Shahshi Kapoor was also familiar as he starred in several Merchant-Ivory films of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, among them The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah and Heat And Dust. One of his last films, 1993's In Custody, was also a Merchant-Ivory production. James Ivory, one-half of the collaborative team, won an Oscar today for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Call Me By Your Name.