According to the late actress Sridevi's uncle Venugopal Reddy, her mother was against her marriage to Boney Kapoor. He also added that Sridevi's mother didn't treat Boney Kapoor properly on several occasions.

"Actually, Sridevi's mother did not like her getting married to Boney Kapoor. Her mother didn't treat him properly on a couple of occasions when he had come home. But Boney Kapoor and Sridevi wanted to get married. Sridevi's mother did discuss that with all of us. But eventually they did get married."

"When her mother was operated on in the US, the doctors performed the surgery on the wrong side of her brain because of which she was totally bedridden. She was alive but not in her senses. She had become just an object. After the family got to know about the surgery, they filed a case against the hospital and Boney Kapoor was along with Sridevi during this process. And court penalised the hospital, and sisters, Sridevi and Srilatha had a few differences in the allocation of that amount which was later cleared by the family members. And besides a share in this compensation, Sridevi used to send a lot of money to her sister Srilatha and they were fine", Venugopal Reddy said.

Talking about Sridevi's early days' struggle, Reddy said:

"Sridevi is from a middle-class family and her mother faced a lot of struggles to get her into movies. Her mother took a lot of care of Sridevi's food, clothing and other things. And Sridevi too was obedient to her mom. Sridevi hasn't had any formal education. When she got into films and was living in Chennai, a teacher used to come home and teach her."