Police ruled her fall from a fifth-floor balcony an accident, but conflicting accounts of that night have kept the debate over how she died alive for three decades.
On the night of 5 April 1993, Divya Bharti fell from the balcony of her fifth-floor flat in the Tulsi building in Versova, Mumbai, and died of her injuries at nineteen. A police investigation concluded that the death was accidental.
But the circumstances — her youth and stardom, differing versions of who was present and what happened, and her secret marriage — meant the ruling never fully settled the question in public. To this day her death is argued over as an accident, a suicide, or something never proven, making it one of Indian cinema's most enduring mysteries.
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