EXCLUSIVE: When Divya Bharti’s mother revealed she was a bad student and joined films to avoid studies

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27 years ago, in April 1993, actor Divya Bharti's accidental death left the film industry shocked. One of the most popular and highest paid actresses of her time, Divya had done a commendable amount of work in a rather short span, and tied the knot with producer Sajid Nadiadwala a year before her untimely death.

EXCLUSIVE: When Divya Bharti’s mother revealed she was a bad student and joined films to avoid studies

We looked back at the time Divya's father Om Prakash Bharti and mother Meeta Bharti sat for a heart-to-heart conversation with Bollywood Hungama, and it has priceless memorabilia. It was from this interaction that we learned that Divya was happy to mingle with lesser privileged children and help them in whatever way she could. She would, in fact, keep taking them to a market in suburban Mumbai near Sajid Nadiadwala's office to buy them what they needed. "She would take the children to the market, and would buy them stuff. She never carried any money with her. So she would ask the shopkeeper to take the money from Sajid," her father recalled.

Her mother also revealed how Divya was never drawn towards the glamour world, and had no ambitions of becoming a rich and successful actor either. All she wanted was to get rid of her academics, and become a housewife in future. That's how films happened to her.

"She was getting offers. There was a producer in the building next to ours. His manager would come to our house every day, and sit for hours. He pleaded Divya to sign a film with them, and promised that all the work would be complete in three months. So, one day she asked me, 'Mom, if I sign films, what will happen to my studies'? I told her, 'You will need to stop studying if you decide to pursue films'. She was zero in studies. She would barely score anything. She said, 'I don't need to study anymore? Then please tell dad that I want to work in films," revealed Divya's mother. Divya's father allowed her to sign a film, and from there on, she never looked back.

Within 1990 and 1993, Divya appeared in over 20 films and stepped into Bollywood with Sunny Deol's thriller Vishwatma in 1992. The track 'Saat Samundar Paar' from the film yet remains an iconic one, and was used by Sajid Nadiadwala in his directorial debut Kick.