According to sources Ram Gopal Varma wrote “He had seen with his own eyes how her life was like a bird in the sky till her father’s death and then became like a bird in a cage due to her overprotective mother. Meanwhile in those days, actors used to be only paid in mostly black money and due to fear of tax raids her father used to trust friends and relatives who all betrayed her the moment the father died".
Furthermore “Coupled with this the ignorant mother made many wrong investments in litigated properties and all those mistakes combined made her penny-less by the time Boney Kapoor came into her life. He said Boney himself was in huge debt. Once the mother died, her younger sister Shri Latha eloped and got married to their neighbors’ son.”
Moreover RGV said that before dying, the mother had put all properties in
Sridevi’s name. “But her sister put a case on her demanding half the property
claiming that her mother was insane and not in her senses when she signed the
will due to the brain surgery. So in effect the woman desired by millions in
the world was all alone in the world except for one Boney". The filmmaker
added "More than the external peace, her internal mental state was of a
high degree of concern and this caused her to look at her own self and said she
was the most beautiful woman for so many people. But did she think she was
beautiful?".
