Actor-model Sidharth Shukla, who died of a heart attack on September 2, 2021, at the age of 40, has joined the tragic list of Bollywood stars who died young.
Shukla follows Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, who ended his life on June 14, 2020.
Other Bollywood stars who died young or very early in their careers include Divya Bharti, Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari, Madhubala and Smita Patil.
Had those actors lived a full life, they would have enriched India cinema beyond imagination.
Scroll on to know the Bollywood stars who died young:
The baby-faced Divya Bharti shook Bollywood when she died on April 5, 1993, by falling from the fifth floor of Tulsi Apartment building in Versova in Mumbai. She was just 19, but left her mark on Hindi, Telugu and Tamil cinema. Police could never know the cause of her death, though fingers were pointed at her husband Sajid Nadiadwala and the Mumbai mafia. She had just won the Fimfare Award for Best Female Debut for Deewana opposite Shahrukh Khan when she died. Divya was the youngest Bollywood actress to die.
