TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2004 01:18:47AM ]
MUMBAI: "Loneliness is a big problem. There are only that many parties you can go to or places you can chill at. After that, it is very lonely. But it's a life I've chosen."
Barely a year after Nafisa said this in an interview to TOI, she lost her battle against loneliness.
Life in showbiz—coloured as it is with career uncertainties, fair-weather friends and no family support system for those from outside Mumbai—is not easy. Some overcome the problems, others barely survive, and a few succumb just as Nafisa did.
The glamour world has witnessed many examples of celebrities breaking down after finally achieving what they struggled so hard for.
Divya Bharti, all of 19, was at the peak of her career after her film Deewana was a box-office hit in 1993. She fell to her death from her fifth-floor balcony soon after, and although it could not be proved, her death was said to be a case of alcoholic depression.
She was married to film producer Sajid Nadiadwala.
A year later, Tamil cinema's sex symbol Silk Smitha, who sizzled up many a Bollywood dance, hanged herself from the ceiling of her Chennai home. A failed love affair had shattered her.
Member of Parliament and former actress Jaya Prada, however, was one of those who picked the pieces of their lives.
Around eight years ago, the beautiful star reportedly consumed an overdose of sleeping pills as her man in her life refused to go through the formality of divorcing his first wife.
Bipasha Basu, who, at 25, is the same age as Nafisa, admits that success is not easy to handle. "Success makes one lonely," says Basu, who came to Mumbai alone over five years ago.
"I have not made new friends after I became successful. All my pals are from the time when I was struggling in Mumbai."
Though she has a steady boyfriend in John Abraham, Basu has decided to move her parents to Mumbai by next year. "You need family and friends around you," she says.
It's not just loneliness—insecurity is another malaise of the modelling world, feels Aditi Govitrikar. "This career is so short-lived that you want to make the most of it in the little time when you are young," she says. "It's worse for those coming from outside Mumbai."
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