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Sridevi suffered a tragic accident on set due to extreme pressure to lose weight
- •Bollywood's first Lady Superstar Sridevi maintained a strict diet to preserve her flawless screen appearance.
- •During the 1991 Telugu film 'Kshana Kshana', director Ram Gopal Varma wanted a specific look, prompting Sridevi to cut out salt completely.
- •The severe salt-free diet caused sodium deficiency and low blood pressure, leading her to faint on the set of Pankaj Parashar's film 'Meri Biwi Ka Jawab Nahin'.
- •She suffered severe facial injuries and a broken tooth after hitting a table during the fall, leaving her bedridden for a long time and disrupting the film's schedule.
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Sridevi suffered from a severe sodium deficiency and rapidly dropping blood pressure due to a strict, salt-free diet and starvation that she maintained to lose weight for her roles. While shooting on the set of Pankaj Parashar's film, she suddenly fainted, fell, and slammed her head against a table, causing severe facial injuries and a broken tooth.
The severe facial injury and broken tooth left Sridevi bedridden for a long time, disrupting the entire shooting schedule of 'Meri Biwi Ka Jawab Nahin' and leaving it in an uncertain state. Work on the film eventually fell through, financiers pulled out, and the producer passed away, causing the director to abandon the project until it was finally released incomplete in 2004.
Sridevi passed away on February 24, 2018, at the age of 54 due to accidental drowning in a bathtub at a hotel in Dubai. Following extensive investigations, interrogations, and a lie detector test, the Dubai police confirmed there was no foul play and officially ruled her death an accidental drowning resulting from blackouts linked to her strict low-salt diet.
