Zero (Scene to scene)

Her entry into cinema had been through a cameo in Thunaivan. She marked her exit too with a cameo in Zero. While the film was panned upon release, the brief sighting of the actress became a silver lining for many. Audiences everywhere let out a collective sigh as they watched her dazzled on screen one last time. The cameo also turned achingly symbolic as Sridevi stood in the centre of the frame surrounded by Karishma Kapoor, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt - the three generations of girls she had inspired to take up acting as their profession. Federico Fellini had once described the great Charlie Chaplin as a 'sort of Adam from whom we are all descended'. In her final moment in cinema now, Sridevi was standing tall as an Eve flanked by all these heroines she had birthed, a bit of her in all of them, truly the Mai of Bollywood on more ways than one.