Sridevi at the 'English Vinglish' premiere in 2012 in Canada. Pic/Getty Images

It was towards the end of the balderdash '80s in Bollywood that Rishi Kapoor once visited producer-director Yash Chopra's office, as he recalls in his autobiography Khullam Khulla: "I saw him [Chopra] bent over a diary, scribbling something. After a while he excused himself to go to the washroom and I couldn't help peering into the diary he had left open on the desk. I saw that he had written, 'Help Me O God' again and again, on page after page!"