Scandal Point: What Actually Happened to Divya Bharti

What really happened  to  the  19-year old  sensation Divya Bharti on  the night  of  April  5, 1993 when  in the presence of dress designer  Neeta Lulla and  her husband, she  plunged  to her death, reportedly  in an inebriated condition?

 This is what we have heard and  what we’ve been  told. But doubts about the nature of her sudden and shocking death still remain. For,  like it  or not,her  husband producer  Sajid Nadiadwala’s  name is still whispered  conspiratorially  regarding Divya’s mysterious death.

Though Divya’s father has given Nadiadwala  a clean chit,and  though Nadiadwala  has  moved on long back(his  productions after Divya’s death were  dedicated to her, no more) the question that haunts those  close to Divya is, what really happened to  Divya Bharti that  night? How could she  get so drunk and  still climb the window sill  of her  apartment? To reach a  place of life-taking imbalance one has to first be  able to get to that place. And if  she  was  so drunk why was she allowed to do  something so dangerous by other people who were  in the room?”

Hema Malini who  directed Divya Bharti in her  introductory  film  Dil Ashnaa Hai  feels Divya’s death  was  unnecessary. “Why did she have to die so young? She was  so promising.She had all the potential  of a  big star. A promising career  nipped in the  bud,  so  shocking.”

Producer Pahlaj Nihalani who worked with Divya in Shola Aur Shabnam says, “People  say  many things about her death. But  no one  really knows what happened that  night. It will remain  a  mystery.She  was  like   a daughter to me.And so affectionate! She once injured her foot badly while shooting still limped  back to work the  next morning. I had to force her  back to rest  as shooting had been cancelled.”