Bollywood diva Parveen Babi dies


Bollywood diva dies

JAN 22: Bollywood actress Parveen Babi’s body was on Saturday discovered by the Mumbai police when they opened the door of her residence at Juhu. Parveen’s neighbors had complained about the unattended milk packets and newspapers that were lying outside her house for last two days. "We opened the door of her house with the help of a duplicate key and found her body," senior police officer upta said adding that the preliminary enquiry ruled out any foul play. Police suspect that she must have died three days back, though the cause of her death was not immediately known. On film Parveen Babi came to represent the bohemian Indian woman, unafraid to smoke or drink on camera at a time when these were considered taboo. In 1977 she was featured on the cover of US magazine Time as the face of the modern Indian woman, and reached the height of her fame in the early 1980s. She had mesmerized thousands of Bollywood fans for two decades with her performances in blockbusters like Deewar, Namakhalal and Amar Akbar Anthony. She had entered films in the early seventies. But Parveen had a history of mental illness and confined herself to her house for the last three years after returning from abroad, where she spent a decade. She belonged to the royal Nawab family of Junagadh and did her schooling from Ahmedabad. Parveen was known more as a glamorous heroine than a serious actress. Parveen entered Bollywood in 1973. Her first film was Charitraheen in the lead role with former cricketer Salim Durrani. Thereafter, she did not look back. She appeared in Sanjay Khan's film Chandi Sona and shot into limelight with her splendid performance in Deewar along with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor. Controversies followed her Early 70s: Parveen Babi first became controversial with her sensational interviews. She was the first heroine to openly take drugs and talk about it. Like many in her generation, Babi openly advocated free love. She gave candid quotes about her affairs with married men like Danny Denzongpa, Mahesh Bhatt and Kabir Bedi, whom she even ran away to Italy with. However, it is alleged that she was madly in love with superstar Amitabh Bachchan and unable to bear him rejecting her advances, she fell into a vicious circle of unsatisfactory relationships. Mid 70's: Bizarre stories about Babi began making the rounds in film glossies. She was allegedly suffering from Schizophrenia and believed that there was a giant conspiracy against her and that people wanted her dead. She was involved in an intense and destructive relationship with Mahesh Bhatt and suffered a nervous breakdown. 1979: Babi sought mental and spiritual solace through alternative contemporary spirituality. She followed Osho the Indian "Love Guru" for a few years and became involved with the teachings of UG Krishnamurti. Meanwhile, the relationship with Bhatt ended and he made Arth, a semi-autobiographical look at his extramarital relationship with Babi. 1983: BAbi, the emotional gypsy, mysteriously flew off again, this time to the US. Some claimed it was her association with Krishnamurthy, the release of Bhatt's Arth, and her disturbed state of mind that prompted her to abandon everything. But Babi never confirmed the veracity of any media speculation. 2000: When she returned after an extended stay in New York, a now-bloated Babi lodged a complaint with the Bhoiwada police station against 34 parties, including actor Amitabh Bachchan and former US President Bill Clinton, who, she accused of conspiring to kill her. 2002: She again hit the headlines when she filed an affidavit claiming to have gathered clinching evidence against actor Sanjay Dutt for his alleged involvement in 1993 bomb blast case. However, she did not turn up on August 5 morning in the designated TADA court in response to summons.
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