Divya Bharti

Divya Om Prakash Bharti (25 February 1974 – 5 April 1993), was an Indian film actress, starring in a number of commercially successful Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films in the early 1990s.

After spending much of her childhood in Tapri, Jaipur, Bharti began a career as an actress in Telugu films with the 1990 film Bobbili Raja. She progressed to Hindi films in 1992 with Vishwatma. Bharti went onto have commercial success with films like Shola Aur Shabnam and Deewana that same year, for which she garnered a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Bharti acted in over 14 Hindi films between 1992 and early 1993.

Bharti's career was cut short by her death on 5 April 1993 at the age of 19. The circumstances of her death, falling from the window ledge of her five-storey Versova apartment have been the subject of dispute over the years. Bharti's last completed films were Rang, co-starring Kamal Sadanah and Shatranj with Jackie Shroff, both released posthumously.

Divya Bharti was born on 25 February 1974, in Mumbai, India, the eldest child of Om Prakash Bharti, an insurance officer, and his second wife, Meeta Bharti. She had a younger brother named Kunal.

Bharti studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, Mumbai, in same era as actors Farhan Akhtar and Rani Mukherji attended. She was an average student and completed grade 9.

Bharti married film producer Sajid Nadiadwala in 1992. They had met in 1990 at Film City, when Sajid dropped by to meet Govinda on the sets of Shola Aur Shabnam.