Young Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar was kidnapped and beheaded by her costars. One of the terrible things about her death is that she met the killers when she did the horror film called 404.
Amit Jaiswal, 36, and his lover Preeti Surin tried to get 1,500,000 Rupees for Meenakshi Thapar, but ultimately, they chose to murder her on the set of her latest film Heroine. Now fans will certainly want to see her final film, but there is no word on if enough of it was filmed to make the full movie. Would you watch it if it is released?
The reason the two decided to kidnap the young Bollywood actress is because they heard her discuss her family's status and wealth, so they decided maybe they could get a quick buck from them. They lured her on a trip to Gorakhpur where they ended up kidnapping her and trying to extort money from her family.
Amazingly, Thapar's mother paid 60,000 Rupees, but that was far short of the 1,500,000 Rupees they demanded. Shortly after the payment they decided to kill the actress.
Her death seems to have been quite violent. She was strangled to death and then beheaded. The killers dumped her body in separate locations. They actually threw her head out the window of the bus they rode back to Mumbai, which is incredibly disgusting.
When Jaiswal and Surin were caught, they confessed to the murder. What a horrible ending for this talented actress. It is terrible that her killers were so jealous of her family's wealth that they ended up taking her life over it. What a waste. At least they will not be able to do something like this again.
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Comments: 13
?? She was an extra in the film. The film has already wrapped. Even if it hadn't it wouldn't have mattered. The film's star was asked about this murder the other day and she hadn't even heard of the girl before. Junior artists are just background extras in Indian films.
People get murdered every day. The only reason this made the news at all is that the media saw a chance to tie her death to a huge film that's about to release. And now American sites are writing about it but are doing so little research that they don't even bother to get basic facts like the poor woman's name correct. It's frustrating.
The bit about the film finishing without her though--that could be solved by a simple Google search. It's probably the biggest film in the country right now, even my grandmother who hates Bollywood films knows who's in it and when it's releasing. Now if I can just convince her to see it... ;)