Actor Divya Bharti died at nineteen: 27 years later, her untimely death remains a mystery to many
Hindustan TimesDivya Bharti’s rise to stardom and her untimely death April 5,1993 continues to intrigue fans, 27 years after her death. Speaking to India Today, Divya’s father Om Prakash Bharti had said, “There was no question of suicide or murder. From her debut film Vishwatma to Kshatriya, she worked in one successful film after another, most noteworthy being David Dhawan’s Govinda starrer Shola Aur Shabnum and Shah Rukh Khan and Rishi Kapoor starrer Deewana. Looking at the films that she had either partially shot for and were later filled in my other actors or had signed on to work in, would give a sense of how excited the industry was with the prospect of this new and young star -- Anil Kapoor and Raveena Tandon’s Laadla, she was replaced in Akshay Kumar’s Mohra, Ajay Devgn’s Vijaypath and Dilwale.