The entire nation is shocked and grieving as veteran actress Sridevi passed away late Saturday in Dubai. Reports say that she fainted spell in the bathroom of her room in Dubai's Emirates Tower hotel at around 11.30 pm (local time).The actress was then rushed to hospital but unfortunately, she was declared dead.
Photos: Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor return to Mumbai for Sridevi's funeral
While all are expressing their condolences to the family, there are some who can't resist trolling even during such a critical moment. The reason of Sridevi's death is cardiac arrest but a lot of people started saying that surgery was behind the cardiac arrest. This didn't go down well with telly queen Ekta Kapoor who slammed trollers for falsely stating surgery as a reason behind Sridevi's death. She took to the micro-blogging site and tweeted: ''Evil ones pls realise one percent ( as fwded as my doc told me) of the population can have a cardiac arrest without any heart condition or any kind of surgery ! It’s destiny not how evil rumour mongers portray!!!''
Meanwhile, officials in Dubai said that her autopsy has been completed and the mortal remains will be brought to Mumbai tomorrow, as the family awaits the report. Sridevi's body will be kept at Versova's Bhagya bungalow from 9 am-11:30 am for visitors to pay their tribute.
Versatile Sridevi had worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, and Kannada cinema. She made her Bollywood debut with Solva Sawan in 1978 and was last seen on the big screen in revenge-drama Mom, co-starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Akshaye Khanna. She shot for a special appearance in superstar Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film -Zero - which will release in December.