Mumbai: Well-wishers and friends are flocking to the condolence meeting being held in Mumbai today in respect of late Bollywood superstar Sridevi. Bollywood celebrities such as Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Isha Deol, Hema Malini, Manish Paul, Farah Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Sonal Chauhan, Satish Kaushik, Annu Kapoor, Alka Yagnik, Madhuri Dixit along with husband Dr Nene, Tabu, Ajay Devgn, and Kajol and Aditya Thackeray have arrived to pay their last respects to veteran actor Sridevi at Celebration Sports Club in Mumbai on Wednesday. Sonam Kapoor also arrived with Anand Ahuja.
The condolence and last respect meet has been going on at Celebrations Sports Club since 9.30 am and is expected to go on till 12.30 pm. Sridevi’s cremation is likely to take place at Vile Parle Seva Samaj crematorium and Hindu cemetery, next to Pawans Hans in Mumbai, at around 3:30 pm. The veteran actress passed away on February 24 in Dubai, where she was attending a family wedding. Her mortal remains reached Mumbai in a private plane, late on Tuesday night.
Shahid Kapoor and Mira Kapoor
Aditya Roy Kapur
Athiya Shetty
Deepika Padukone
Sara Ali Khan and Amrita Singh
Neha Dhupia, Jacqueline Fernandez and Soha Ali Khan
Shraddha Kapoor arrive with Siddhant Kapoor
Rekha
Vidya Balan and Siddharth Roy Kapur
Ravi Kisan
Sushmita Sen
Tabu
Ajay Devgn and Kajol
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Hema Malini
Hema Malini and Isha Deol arrive at Celebration Sports Club to pay last respects to #Sridevi pic.twitter.com/MZnuU1rfKI
— ANI (@ANI) February 28, 2018
Arbaaz Khan
Sonam Kapoor arrived with Anand Ahuja
Yuva Sena president Aditya Thackeray
Uravashi Rautela
Farah Khan
Manish paul
Nimrat Kaur
Sridevi’s mortal remains arrived in Mumbai from Dubai on Tuesday night by a private aircraft. Her mortal remains had arrived on Mumbai airport around 9.30 pm by the private aircraft from there she taken by the ambulance at her residence at Green Acres home. Bollywood celebrities like Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Sara Ali Khan, Ishaan Khattar and other rushed to the her residence. Family members, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor Anil Ambani including Boney Kapoor were reached at Green Acres with the ambulance last night. Manish Malhotra, Sonam Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor, Khushi and some family members and friends were already waiting at her home.
The nation was shocked by the sudden demise of actor and the large number of fans waiting outside the bunglow for a glimpse of their favourite actor. It is also reported that, 40 buses from the Chennai and Hyderabad had left for Mumbai last night.
According to reports, Sridevi died on February 24 by drowning in bathtub in the hotel room in Dubai. She and the Kapoor family member were in UAE to attend Mohit Marwah’s wedding. Well Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor left Dubai as they wanted to shoot for their upcoming film, ‘Ek ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga’ and Arjun for ‘Namastey England. It is also said that Boney Kapoor with daughter Khushi had come to Mumbai and Sridevi was alone in then Dubai. On the day of Sridevi’s death Boney Kapoor went Dubai to surprise her with a dinner date. Then, after 15 to 20 minutes, the tragic accident occurred in the hotel bathroom. First reports said that she had a heart attack and later report said that she passed away due to drowning.