Thousands of flower carrying, prayer chanting fans and Bollywood actors are pouring into Mumbai’s Celebration Sports Club to pay last respects to Bollywood film icon Sridevi, who died in Dubai over the weekend. The actress dressed as bride according to Hindu rituals and got ready for her funeral, which will be held at 3:30pm, reports NDTV.

The sudden death of the 54-year-old had shaken the country. Her body was released by the Dubai police last evening after routine investigations and was flown into Mumbai by a private jet.

Sridevi, who was initially thought to have died of a cardiac arrest, was found to have accidentally drowned in the hotel bathtub after she fell unconscious.

Sridevi's family, in a statement on Tuesday, had asked people to join them to pay respects to the ‘remarkable actor, beloved wife and loving mother’ between 9:30am to 12:30pm. The Celebration Sports Club is a short distance from Sridevi's Lokhandwala home.

Sridevi's body had reached Mumbai last evening after a three-day wait, as Dubai authorities took time to complete the formalities.

Hundreds of fans had waited outside the Kapoor residence in Lokhandwala for her return. Since morning, the film fraternity from Bollywood and southerns superstars gathered to meet the family.

On Saturday evening, Sridevi, who in Dubai to attend the marriage function of actor Mohit Marwah, drowned in the bathtub of Room No. 2201 at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai.

According to a Khaleej Times report, the laboratory results revealed that she had consumed alcohol and was in an inebriated state when she slipped and fell into the bathtub that was filled with water.The police said that there was no clear criminal motive with regard to her death, neither did she suffer a cardiac arrest, as reported earlier.

A day after Sridevi died, celebrities like Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi, visited the late actress' brother-in-law and actor-producer Anil Kapoor's residence in Mumbai to offer condolences to the grieving family.

Sridevi, who made a comeback to Bollywood in 2012 with ‘English Vinglish’ after a break of 15 years, was last seen on the big screen in ‘Mom’ in 2017.