Jaya Prada says she could never make 'eye contact' with Sridevi, didn't talk despite being locked in a room together

Jaya Prada has recalled an incident where Jeetendra and Rajesh Khanna locked her and Sridevi in a room, in an effort to get them to talk to each other.

Yesteryear actor Jaya Prada, in an appearance on Indian Idol 12, reminisced about her equation with the late Sridevi. The actors worked together in several films such as Aakhree Raasta and Aulad, but Jaya said that they simply did not have any chemistry off screen.

Jaya Prada and Sridevi have worked together in several films.

On Indian Idol, she recalled how Rajesh Khanna and Jeetendra locked her and Sridevi in a room together, with the intention of getting them to open up, but they didn't utter a word.

"I am the luckiest person I can say, and it's never been that we had any personal grudge against each other but it is just that our chemistry never matched. We never had eye contact with each other even after being perfect sisters on screen. We both competed with each other, be it dresses or dance. Every single time we met, the directors or the actors used to introduce us on set and to which we used to greet each other and move ahead," she said, according to a leading daily.

Sridevi died in 2018, while attending a family wedding in Dubai. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning. Her last screen appearance was a cameo in Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Zero. Her daughter, Janhvi Kapoor, made her film debut a few months after her death.