Here's how Sridevi shaped Karan Johar's film career

For Karan Johar Sridevis movies are a window to his childhood and the beginning of his love for Hindi cinema Growing up in South Bombay Karan said not many kids in his locality were interested in Hindi cinema in 80s but he loved the way Sridevi connected with the audiencesSridevi known for her films like Sadma Mr India Lamhe English Vinglish Mom among others passed away in February last yearFor me today and every moment of Sridevi takes me back to my entire childhood and my entire being and my passionate love for movies and my absolute obsession with Hindi cinema I think she has a large part to do with it I cant recall the moment when I felt madly in love with her I was her biggest fan Karan said at the book launchKaran who launched Sridevi The External Screen Goodess written by Satyarth Nayak in Mumbai a few days after its Delhi launch by Deepika Padukone said while Hindi cinema was a low priority for children around him he just sat at home and watched movies including all of Sridevis workI remember watching Himmatwala with my house help in a cinema hall I went multiple times to watch it and then every other movie after that I remember dancing on pot and pan just like she had My love story began with her and it just never endedReminiscing an incident when he chose Sridevis film over his fathers own movie Karan said his father late filmmaker Yash Johar was upset with him as he went to see Mr India instead of Mukkadar Ka Faisla My father was releasing a film on the same day as Mr India He had released Mukkadar Ka Faisla which was directed by Prakash Mehra and my father was very hurt with me because on the opening day I went running to see Mr India and I did not see my fathers filmSridevi had the magical quality of connecting with you She just seemed unattainable inaccessible just the way you want your stars to be and I had put her up on a pedestal She became like that with every movieKaran said he was such a diehard fan of Sridevi that it would have been disaster for him to direct her in a movie had they worked togetherI am not sure if I would have been the best director for her because I would have been too much of a fan And somewhere a filmmaker has to be very objective about his or her work And fandom can make you lose objective and I think I would have lost complete objectivity So I am glad I never directed her as I would have give her a failure which she did not deserve Karan saidIt was during the making of her fathers 1993 production Gumrah when Karan met Sridevi and the director said he found her to be quite reticentI was dying to be her best friend tried everything talked to her but she was always quiet She took compliments and adulation just like how she would treat silence like it would not bother herThe director said Sridevi was very involved with her films and would often give suggestionsWhen I narrated the film referring to Kalank that she was meant to do before she passed away she read the script she made her notes and she told me a few brilliant things which I wish we had listened to She had some wonderfully intuitive things She had always had that sense She was not given credit for a lot of things There was a ticking brain I dont think she got enough credit for he addedCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates