Jiah Khan's mother speaks
Sometime in 2012, Rabia Khan, former starlet and aspiring documentary maker, mother of three beautiful daughters, wrote on her blog Food for Soul: The outside world's influence will not affect us, if we can have a control of our inner world....I try this by starting my day by saying, "This is going to be a great fun, I'm going to be happy doing this, everything will start to go my way!" By doing this I have set my own terms for the day. This will allow us to control our circumstances, instead of being controlled by them."
According to Rabia, she wanted her daughters to write down their negative thoughts on a piece of paper and burn it. This exercise, she believed, would exerciseall negative energies and help them get a grip on their lives. Months later, her 25-year-old talented daughter, Jiah, unable to cope with her circumstances, hanged herself in her bedroom. And no, she did not leave a note behind that could be destroyed with all her unhappy thoughts. A distraught Rabia told the police in her statement: "She was fed up with the struggle... she was besotted with Bollywood, but Bollywood had nothing to offer her."
Jiah Khan will be best remembered for herdebut opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Nishabd . Ram Gopal Varma , who cast heras an Indian Lolita , tweeted after news of her death became public: "She was depressed about her career and scared for her future." The "spunkly debutante," he added, had confessed to him that"everyone around her made her feel like afailure."
While it is impossible to gauge what triggered her desperate final act, a reconstruction of the last six years of Jiah Khan's young life, reveals a troubling portrait of great ambition thwarted at every step and a string of abortive relationships that pretty much left her emotionally rudderless.
Downhill from Nishabd
One-film wonder is a cliche in the film industry. The actress certainly did not want that tag attached to her, but at the same time failed to leverage her big debut. Jiah's second shot at box office was with the colossal hit Ghajini (2008) where she played the second lead. Ghajini producer MadhuMantena reportedly signed her for a three-film dealright after. But for reasons best known to Mantena —his phone remained switched off all of yesterday--the deal never materialised .
More damaging for Jiah was her unceremonious ouster from UTV's Chance Pe Dance (2010) directed by Ken Ghosh after the film was almost complete. The production house had signed a three-film deal which too never fructified. Reportedly, her co-star in the film, ShahidKapoor did not see eye to eye with Jiah , and UTV was compelled to give her the marching orders. Yesterday Shahid tweeted his condolences, terming her death: "Very disturbing."
There were nine more offers, but most of them not to her liking.
According to Rabia, she wanted her daughters to write down their negative thoughts on a piece of paper and burn it. This exercise, she believed, would exerciseall negative energies and help them get a grip on their lives. Months later, her 25-year-old talented daughter, Jiah, unable to cope with her circumstances, hanged herself in her bedroom. And no, she did not leave a note behind that could be destroyed with all her unhappy thoughts. A distraught Rabia told the police in her statement: "She was fed up with the struggle... she was besotted with Bollywood, but Bollywood had nothing to offer her."
Jiah Khan will be best remembered for herdebut opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Nishabd . Ram Gopal Varma , who cast heras an Indian Lolita , tweeted after news of her death became public: "She was depressed about her career and scared for her future." The "spunkly debutante," he added, had confessed to him that"everyone around her made her feel like afailure."
While it is impossible to gauge what triggered her desperate final act, a reconstruction of the last six years of Jiah Khan's young life, reveals a troubling portrait of great ambition thwarted at every step and a string of abortive relationships that pretty much left her emotionally rudderless.
Downhill from Nishabd
One-film wonder is a cliche in the film industry. The actress certainly did not want that tag attached to her, but at the same time failed to leverage her big debut. Jiah's second shot at box office was with the colossal hit Ghajini (2008) where she played the second lead. Ghajini producer MadhuMantena reportedly signed her for a three-film dealright after. But for reasons best known to Mantena —his phone remained switched off all of yesterday--the deal never materialised .
More damaging for Jiah was her unceremonious ouster from UTV's Chance Pe Dance (2010) directed by Ken Ghosh after the film was almost complete. The production house had signed a three-film deal which too never fructified. Reportedly, her co-star in the film, ShahidKapoor did not see eye to eye with Jiah , and UTV was compelled to give her the marching orders. Yesterday Shahid tweeted his condolences, terming her death: "Very disturbing."
There were nine more offers, but most of them not to her liking.
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