Ellam Sivamayam [Kumara Sambhavam] 🎶

Sridevi as the Multi Faceted Kumara Swamy. The highlight of Kumara Sambhavam is the technically marvellous concert 'Ellam Sivamayam' where you see the screen populated by six Sridevis! One singing and the rest playing different instruments. And each of them bears a distinct expression and body language of the lord. This reel visual of multiple Sridevi's performing simultaneously in a single frame, becomes poignantly symbolic of what the child was going through in her real life now. Multiple films, multiple roles, multiple shifts in multiple studios - an ode to an outstanding talent in the making but at the same time an elegy for a stolen childhood. However, in a 1992 chat with CINE BLITZ, Sridevi confessed that she was relishing it all:

'Basically, it was all fun for me. I loved all the fancy wigs, costumes, jewellery. And I loved bunking school which I hated, only because I was painfully shy and was scared of sitting in a class with all unknown faces around me. In fact, the fear of crowds is something I haven't shaken off, right till today.'