Divya Bharti (25 February 1974 – 5 April 1993) was an Indian film actress who worked predominantly in Hindi and Telugu cinema in the early 1990s. Regarded as the most popular and top-billed Indian actress of her time, Bharti has acted in over 14 films in two years of her career, which is an unbroken record by any debutante.
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Bharti was born in Mumbai (known at the time as Bombay) on 25 February 1974 to Om Prakash Bharti and Meeta Bharti. She had a younger brother named Kunal and a half-sister Poonam, who was the child of Om Prakash Bharti’s first marriage. Actress Kainaat Arora is her cousin.
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Bharti spoke Hindi, English and Marathi fluently. In her early years, she was known for her bubbly personality and doll-like looks. She studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, Mumbai. Bharti was a restless student at school and completed the 9th standard before pursuing an acting career.
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Bharti met director-producer Sajid Nadiadwala through Govinda while working on the set of Shola Aur Shabnam, and they married on 10 May 1992 and they married at a private ceremony on 10 May 1992, in the presence of her hairdresser and friend Sandhya, Sandhya’s husband, and a qazi at Nadiadwala’s Tulsi Buildings residence in Mumbai. She converted to Islam after her marriage, changing her name to Sana Nadiadwala.The marriage was kept secret so as to not affect her prosperous film career.
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In the late evening hours of 5 April 1993, Bharti fell from the balcony window of her fifth-floor apartment in Tulsi Buildings, Versova, Andheri West (Mumbai). When her guests Neeta Lulla, Neeta’s husband Shyam, Bharti’s maid Amrita, and neighbours realised what had happened, she was rushed in an ambulance to the emergency department at Cooper Hospital, where she died. She was 19 years old.The official cause of her death was due to was severe head injuries and internal bleeding. She was cremated on 7 April 1993 at the Vile Parle crematorium in Mumbai.
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