Divya Bharti was an Indian actress who worked predominantly in Hindi and Telugu films.
27 Facts About Divya Bharti
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Divya Bharti made her debut with a lead role opposite Venkatesh in the Telugu-language romantic action Bobbili Raja, and subsequently appeared in a financially unsuccessful Tamil-language film Nila Pennae In films like Naa Ille Naa Swargam and Assembly Rowdy she had minor roles.
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Divya Bharti had her first commercial success with the romantic comedy Rowdy Alludu.
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Divya Bharti achieved further success with starring roles such as in the romance film Deewana, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
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Divya Bharti died on 5 April 1993, after falling from the balcony of the fifth floor of her apartment in Mumbai.
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Divya Bharti had a younger brother named Kunal and a half-sister Poonam, who was the child of Om Prakash Bharti's first marriage.
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Divya Bharti studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, Mumbai.
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Divya Bharti was a restless student at school and completed the 9th standard before pursuing an acting career.
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Divya Bharti was scheduled to make her screen debut in Gunahon Ka Devta in 1988, but her role was cancelled and she was replaced by Sangeeta Bijlani.
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Divya Bharti began shooting in Andhra Pradesh for her screen debut.
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Later in the year, Divya Bharti acted in a Tamil film, Nila Pennae, opposite Anand.
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In box office ratings, Divya Bharti ranked next to Vijayashanti who has been widely called The Lady Superstar and Lady Amitabh of South Indian cinema.
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In 1991, Divya Bharti had back-to-back hits with action comedy film Rowdy Alludu and drama Assembly Rowdy opposite actors Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu, respectively.
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Later that year, Bharti began filming A Kodandarami Reddy's action romance Dharma Kshetram under Sri Rajeev Productions.
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Divya Bharti got to work with Telugu film actor Nandamuri Balakrishna.
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Divya Bharti was most notable for the song used in the film Saat Samundar.
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Divya Bharti achieved further success in Raj Kanwar's Filmfare Award-winning love story Deewana, which starred veteran actor Rishi Kapoor and newcomer Shahrukh Khan.
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Critics reported that Divya Bharti belonged to a new breed of Hindi film actors who broke away from character stereotypes.
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Divya Bharti won the Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year.
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Divya Bharti portrayed a bar dancer who sets out to find her birth mother.
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Divya Bharti decided to act in one Telugu movie per year to not disappoint her Telugu audience.
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Divya Bharti was replaced in films she had not completed, including Mohra, Kartavya, Vijaypath, Dilwale, and Andolan.
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Divya Bharti was more than halfway through the filming of Laadla at the time of her death and the movie was reshot with Sridevi portraying the role.
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Divya Bharti met director-producer Sajid Nadiadwala through actor Govinda while working on the set of Shola Aur Shabnam, and they married on 10 May 1992 at a private ceremony in the presence of her hairdresser and friend Sandhya, Sandhya's husband, and a qazi at Nadiadwala's Tulsi Buildings residence in Bombay.
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Divya Bharti was cremated on 7 April 1993 at the Vile Parle crematorium in Bombay.
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Divya Bharti acted in 21 films during her short career, and was one of the highest-paid Indian actresses at the time of her death.
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Divya Bharti had a raw, tamed, wild look about her which magnetised the audience.