Glam, fame, wealth and an untimely mysterious death!

Until she married Union Minister, Shashi Tharoor and shot to fame, to be then seen prominently in the social circuits, people barely knew Sunanda Pushkar. However even before she could be well registered in people’s mind, she left for a heavenly abode.

 

This is not an account of who she was or what controversies followed her. This is about how the life had been rude to her and many such people in one form or the other, without, sometimes, any of their faults.

If one has to peep into their life in yesteryears, most of them, like all others, toiled in the beginning of their careers. A few succeeded and climbed up the success ladder, some even stayed in the spotlight while few strayed, however all of them left the journey abruptly.

 

They were all successful, wealthy, earned fame and fortune, they carved a niche for themselves, had a fan-following, people loved them, they touched thousands and sometimes millions of hearts, yet many of them were lonely, unhappy, discontented…life offered the best to them in terms of materialistic happiness and been harsh to them, to take their lives away at a young age!

There could be manifold reasons associated with such deaths: work pressure, depression – unable to cope up with lifestyle, illness, failed marriages, soiled relationships, infidelity, over-doses of certain habits, accidents, financial downtime…. Some of these well-known figures, fell prey to severe illnesses while some deaths, even today, remain a puzzle!

 

Whatever happened internally in their lives within the family, loved ones, remains a private subject however when it leads to an extreme step of killing oneself is something always shocking and hard to accept!

Why I call many of such demises, mysterious is because many of these cases had a controversy attached with them, just before they chose an extreme step to end their lives.

 

The tinsel town has witnessed some really shocking incidents of celebrities dying a mysterious death. To remember a few: (I have listed only a few here, whatever I could recollect)

 

Divya Bharti: suspicious death of famous Bollywood starlet remained a mystery ever. She rose within a short period, however had a short-lived career and life. It was one of the most shocking deaths the industry witnessed.

Smita Patil: I am sure none of us have forgotten her. Starlet of Indian Parallel cinema expired at a young age of 31 at the peak of her career.

Viveka Babaji:  A promising supermodel committed suicide just at an age of 27!

Gulshan Kumar: 'Cassette King', the founder of the T-Series music was killed.

Nafisa Joseph: Again a young model and MTV Jockey, she hanged herself at a young age.

Silk Smitha: South Indian siren, she was called. No one really knows, officially, the reason behind her death.

Parveen Babi: One of the most glamorous starlets of her time died a rather sad death. The once upon a time, talk of the town, had been living a lonely life in Mumbai!

Jiah khan: The most recent suicide by her shook the entire film industry. The reason could have been fallout in relationship however which again was not publicly known.

Anuradha Bali: Not many of us might know her as she did not belong to Bollywood however she too died under tragic circumstances, after having gone through a short-lived stint with one of the ministers.

If one looks at the sequence of events in her life, the life seemed to have stopped so abruptly for her! Fiza, as she called herself after she got converted to Muslim, hit the news headlines as she eloped and married a minister in Haryana government. She was deserted in time less than what it took the relation to take off.

Starting the love story with eloping in 2008 and ending it with her mysterious death and 2012! All seemed to have been over in the blink of an eye.

There are several other prominent celebrities who passed away quiet early in life, leaving the world shaken up.

The most shocking ones were the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, charming Princess Diana, the pop icon Michael Jackson and few others like singer Amy Winehouse, Anna Nicole Smith, Jim Morrison, and Big Brother fame Jade Goody (who had a controversy with Bollywood star Shilpa shetty).

 

In the Indian history too some death mysteries have remained unresolved: Sanjay Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Subhash Chandra Bose.

The mystery surrounding their death continues to haunt their relatives, fans and all of us, even today.

 

On a parting note, while the reasons associated with such deaths could be any, however it has brought sorrow to all of us and such incidents have always perturbed and stirred the human race!