Chunky Panday shared this throwback picture. (Image courtesy: Chunky Panday )
Highlights
- Chunky Panday posted a throwback picture
- Chunky's picture also features Divya Bharti
- Divya Bharti died in 1993
New Delhi:
Actor Chunky Panday reminded us it's Throwback Thursday (we've been muddling our days up this week, what with the Friday release opening a day earlier) with a grand old picture from his 1992 hit
Vishwatma. The film boasted a stacked cast that also included Sunny Deol and Naseeruddin Shah but it was late actress Divya Bharti, in the forefront of the picture, we were particularly thrilled to see.
Vishwatma was Divya's debut and the still is from the hit song
Saat Samundar Paar. Milleinials probably have no idea who Divya Bharti was - she was just 19 when she died tragically, and somewhat mysteriously, after falling off the balcony of her fifth-floor Versova apartment just the next year. Many comments on Chunky's post were also delighted to spot Divya Bharti. "You were a superb actress. We miss you," read one comment while another said, "Million dollar pic." Many also cited
Saat Samundar Paar as among their favourite songs.
This is what Chunky Panday posted on Instagram.
If you don't remember the video of
Saat Samundar Paar, here it is.
Vishwatma, directed by Rajiv Rai, was Divya Bharti's Hindi debut. She was already a veteran of several Telugu films like
Bobbili Raja, opposite Daggubati Venkatesh. Her brief Bollywood career also included two films with a young Shah Rukh Khan -
Deewana, which was SRK's debut, and
Dil Aashna Hai, directed by Hema Malini. Divya Bharti would likely have been one of the film industry's leading lights, had she lived. She married producer Sajid Nadiadwala months after
Vishwatma released. A year later, in April 1993, she was dead.
Chunky Panday, now 55, made his Bollywood debut in 1987 with
Aag Hi Aag.
His second film was Paap Ki Duniya with Sunny Deol. He later starred in films like
Tezaab,
Zakham,
Khilaaf,
Housefull and
Humshakals. He was last seen in
Begum Jaan, co-starring Vidya Balan.