Sridevi – The Eternal Screen Goddess book launched by Karan Johar, says Sridevi played a huge role in his cinema obsession

Karan Johar, who attended the launch of author Satyarth Nayak's book Sridevi: The External Screen Goddess in Mumbai on Sunday, hailed Sridevi as an artiste, describing her as "incredible". Speaking at the book launch event, the 47-year-old filmmaker said: "Sridevi was an actor by observation. She was incredible. She had that potentiality of observing and absorbing the body languages of others.

She was the best mimic in the world. She could just mimic anything and anything at all, and it was all due to observation. She was the only actor of the eighties and the nineties who upped her craft through observation. She absorbed the syntax of cinema of the time," IANS reported.

Sridevi, who took a sabbatical from films in the late Nineties, made a comeback with 2012 film English Vinglish, which opened to much critical acclaim. Talking about the legendary actress' return to movies, Karan Johar added: "She did the movie English Vinglish after a gap of 15 years in 2012, and she knew how to face the camera.