Tohfa (Scene to scene)

In this remake of Devata, she reprises her role of Lalita with the same emotional depth. With Tohfa declared a blockbuster within a week of its release, Sridevi soared even higher now. Despite Jaya Prada's presence, the film's success was credited mostly to the Sridevi factor. This could have been because while Janaki was a conventional character, Lalita was the iconoclast. This was perhaps a teaser of how Sridevi would soon subvert patriarchal tropes both on- and off-screen. INDIA TODAY now wrote:

"Sridevi's star is certainly in rapid ascendancy. Overnight, the leggy teenager has turned into Bombay's biggest sex-symbol, the reigning queen of commercial cinema. The price people are paying her has never been paid to an actress before."