Completing the Circle of Life- So soon? (#RIP sridevi)

Sri Devi may not have suffered a painful end, but life might have flashed through those few seconds. As condolences have been pouring in, many have been now left wondering " Was Sri Devi really happy? Was grief hiding so beautifully behind that chiseled face- regret (having given it all but left a career at its peak), guilt(I don’t measure up to industry standards), emptiness (I miss my art) and so much more could have been haunting the woman who has a soft and lady like presence on the screen."

I cannot imagine Sri Devi competing for a position in today’s cinema. Today’s time has become extremely cut-throat, with actors constantly working out and concentrating on their physical looks. They may believe in ‘no-body shamming’ tweets but the fact remains, we tend to notice the little bulge here or there, or when Hritik Roshan had lost his six pack for whatever maybe his personal reasons.

Sri Devi might have been a silent victim to this unrelenting need to look beautiful and timeless. To add to this injury was easy access to the innumerable choices to enhance her naturalness. We may not have lost her so soon, had her heart not taken the beating of the rumored heavy medication she was taking to maintain her hour-glass figure and chiseled wrinkle free face (I could not miss the wrinkling in her arms and hands which is a graceful mark of maturity setting into the physical form).

To me she never looked more than 30; that was abnormal indeed until I watched MOM where I could not take my concentration off her trembling voice. That showed definite age.

A lesson learnt- life is unpredictable and with so much drugs and medical treatments available, life is vulnerable. Even women who are experimenting with child birth are putting the next generation at risk of mental and physical deformities.

Food we consume isn’t the quality we have had in the past, schooling is not as easy as it used to it, parenting has becoming tougher than ever….. let us remember that the human being wasn’t designed for everything automated and digitized. Life cannot be rekindled with a press of a button or an application, human life is limited and will follow its natural cycle of youth and aging.

If we can learn to age when the time has come, we will live far more fulfilling and enjoyable lives, which are not at the mercy of uncalled incidents like the one of Sri Devi, that has indeed left the nation wondering ‘what is beauty really worth.’?

(#sridevi #shridevi #RIPsridevi)