Opened bathroom door at 8pm to find Sridevi dead: Boney Kapoor recounts to friend Komal Nahta

Bollywood actor Sridevi died in a Dubai hotel on Fabruary 24 due to accidental dorwning. Her husband and film producer Boney Kapoor has now opened up -- perhaps for the first time to a friend -- about his unscheduled trip to see his wife in Dubai, how they hugged and kissed when he surprised her and how he found her lying in a bathtub full of water without a drop of water spilling out.

Boney has recounted the “detailed account of what exactly transpired on the fateful evening of February 24” to his friend of 30 years, trade analyst Komal Nahta, who has reproduced the conversation in a blog shared on his official Twitter page.

Nahta wrote that Boney told him he pushed open the bathroom door -- which had not been locked from inside -- at around 8 pm after getting no response to loud calls for Sridevi and a knock on the door. Earlier, there had been a lot of speculation about the time that Boney had opened the bathroom door.

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Nahta told IANS that the conversation happened on Wednesday before Sridevi’s funeral.

It was barely two hours after Boney surprised Sridevi -- his “jaan” and mother of their two daughters Janhvi and Khushi -- at Room No. 2201 at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel here, that he faced the shock of her death, writes Nahta.

Nahta likened Boney’s “unscheduled trip to Dubai” to one such outing the producer had planned in Bangalore in 1994 to catch Sridevi by surprise.

Boney said, “On 24th (February 24) morning, I spoke to her. When she told me, ‘Papa (that’s how she addressed Boney), I’m missing you’, I also told her that I was missing her a lot. But I didn’t tell her that I would be joining her in Dubai in the evening. Janhvi had seconded my idea of going to Dubai because she was scared, her mom, not used to being alone, would misplace her passport or some important document if she was alone.”

According to Boney, there had been only two occasions in the last 24 years when they had not travelled together abroad -- when Sridevi had travelled to New Jersey and Vancouver -- for two film appearances. “Although I didn’t accompany her on those two trips, I made sure that my friend’s wife was with her on both the occasions. The Dubai stay was the first time Sridevi was alone for two days -- 22nd and 23rd -- in a foreign land,” he said.