Beware! The Tigress Crouches [Movie, 1993 October]

The spare of flops in early 90s would have torpedoed anyone's career but Sridevi's star equity was still enormous. Movie put the actress on its October cover with the warning -- Beware! The Tigress Crouches For The Kill'. The magazine asserted: "The public still adores Sri. Filmmakers still swear by her saying that there are certain roles which beg Sridevi's magnificent screen presence. She is beyond compare. Above numbers. Our greatest contemporary entertainer whose track performance unsurpassed by any other but herself."

With the actress herself unperturbed by her recent failures, the magazine queried if her career had come to a stage where no one had the courage to point out that the Empress was not wearing clothes, Sridevi's repartee is absolute genius: "It was an innocent child told the Emperor that he had no clothes on in the story, isn't it? Well, most of my fan letters are from children!"