Bollywood's iconic photographer and portrait artist, Rakesh Shreshta, "I call Sri, mai. She is my favourite. I find her very talkative, child-like, and she can lose weight at the snap of a finger. Heroines who come to my studio get complexed because her pictures stare from all over. Her favourite picture to date is the MOVIE gold foil cover, where she is dressed in a gold drape. She adores it. Mine keeps changing, the latest I feel is the best."
The one man I envied the most throughout the late '80s and through the 1990s - photographer Rakesh Shreshta. He has shot Sridevi more than any other photographer and to visit his studio and go through the archive of images is an unfulfilled dream of mine!
Click on his tag below to see the images we have here of the shots he took of Sri. In fact, 95% of the pics in this blog are probably Rakesh's images. Bless him! He's the best!
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About photographer Rakesh Shreshta:
Dimple Kapadia once made a very pertinent comment on the full of beans, lively and trendy Rakesh Shreshta. She said, "He is the barometer of a star's success. you know where you stand on the popularity charts by the number of times he shoots with you in a month."
Not surprisingly, Rakesh Shreshta is Sridevi's favourite photographer. Rakesh's swanky studio in the by-lanes of Bandra has walls with life size portraits of Sridevi and Sunjay Dutt, both numero unos serving as wall paper. The latest in camera equipment and backgrounds (purchased on his annual trips to Germany for the Photokina exhibition), deafening music (currently it's Khaled's 'Didi') and a bar that opens only in the evening, inspire his stars to reveal all facets of their personality to his camera, unabashedly.
Not surprisingly, Rakesh Shreshta is Sridevi's favourite photographer. Rakesh's swanky studio in the by-lanes of Bandra has walls with life size portraits of Sridevi and Sunjay Dutt, both numero unos serving as wall paper. The latest in camera equipment and backgrounds (purchased on his annual trips to Germany for the Photokina exhibition), deafening music (currently it's Khaled's 'Didi') and a bar that opens only in the evening, inspire his stars to reveal all facets of their personality to his camera, unabashedly.
A passionate worker, after six in the evening however, Rakesh takes off to his club (where he is popularly know as Nepa) for a game of snooker, rummy or a swim.
"No hangover of film stars for me," says he. "I don't mix business with pleasure." A star in his own right Rakesh Shreshta's association with MOVIE has strengthened with every passing day.
-- MOVIE magazine excerpt.
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