Sri Devi, A Star of Innocence - Joseph Mariamichael
       From my memories, when I was 4th Standard, I think, "16 Vayathinile" (At the age 16), was the first cinema, I saw, Sri Devi's. My father came running with handful of coins and informed us that we should get ready at once to go for a cinema "16 Vayathinile". My sister, aged around one year, sleeping on the cradle, jumped out of the cradle, on hearing the sudden surprise news ( as moving going moments were the happiest moments in those times), luckily into my hands. Every body hurriedly got ready and rushed to the movie Hall. After watching the movie, though I again and again recited dialogues of Kamal and Rajini in the Movie, I could not recognize much Sri Devi.  When I was doing +1 only, I came to know the name Sri Devi and got much impressed on seeing her screen presence in Santhippu (Junction) a Sivaji Ganesan movie, a modified version of his own old cinema Thrisoolam (Thrisul). By the time she was leaving the Tamil Cinema and started acting in Hindi Ci...