That last evening of Divya Bharti - Ali Peter John

I first heard about him when he did his first Telugu film 'Bobini Raja' which became a huge hit. She then came to Bombay and signed any number of small and big films, mostly big films and was seen as a big opening for the future. She was from a middle-class family, lived in a building called Archana Kutir in Juhu, and within a year she had left behind all the young female stars and was also the highest paid.

It was her biggest win when she played the lead opposite Anil Kapoor in 'Laadla', a role originally to be played by Sridevi and her happiness was no boom.

She was shooting two innings in April 2005 and it was very difficult to meet her. However, my friend Kulbhushan Gupta, a journalist who had made up his mind to produce Hindi films, took me along as he was going to meet Divya at Hermes Villa in Versova. We talked for 20 minutes and I could tell how much she loved life and all the good things that were waiting for her.

Kulbhushan and I left and after a few drinks left for our own homes without even thinking about what we would hear early the next morning. At 5 in the morning, Kulbhushan called in a voice I had never heard before. ‘Ali, Divya is dead,’ he said, and I first arrived at Tulsi Bhawan in the seven bungalows where Divya lived with her newly married husband, the young and well-known producer Sajid Nadiadwala. When I reached the building, there was a huge crowd outside. She had fallen (?) from the 5th floor and was badly injured and was taken to Cooper Hospital where she was declared brought dead before admission.

There were many doubts and theories regarding the cause of her death. She had gone to a party after completing her work for the day and went for a drive with her husband and some close friends. She continued drinking even after reaching home and it was said that she was sitting on the platform of "Tulsi" and after that her body was lying in a pool of blood after which her husband and his friends took her to the hospital, but Divya Bharti's younger sister died. But the success story came to an abrupt and tragic end.

There was an anxious crowd outside the post-mortem department of the hospital. And when her body was brought out, it was reconstructed to look as beautiful as it had been in her life. From the hospital, her body was taken to the Vile Parle Hindu crematorium and her body which was the talking point of the industry, engulfed the Panchatattva in the flames and in no time, many young women believed that the light of the future had dimmed Gone it became a memory and will be remembered by some and in no time it was forgotten.

Someone told the people at the crematorium to install cement and concrete benches at the site for the demurrers to rest on. The request was heeded and there was a bench with Divya Bharti's name on it. But soon the bench was there but Divya's name had disappeared. This is the ultimate truth about life and death. But it is time for the living to realize the truth that the greatest and the smallest, the highest and the lowest, the saint and the sinner have to face off one day, someday.

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