There is no denying that a dark period is going on in the Indian music industry. In the span of just 4 months, we lost 4 gems of the music industry. First, Lata Mangeshkar, then Bappi Lahri, Sidhu Moose Wala, and now KK. The deaths of these diamonds have shattered our facts. But the fact that Sidhu and KK left us at such a young age is giving us unbearable pain. In the past, we have to bear the same pain when some Indian celebrities left us at a young age. Remembering all those souls, today here we bring 10 Indian celebrities who died young and left our hearts numb.
1. KK: Born as Krishnakumar Kunnath, KK died of a massive heart attack on 30th May 2022. The musician took his last breath while doing what the loved the most. The soulful singer was performing at a live concert in Kolkata when he suffered a heart attack. He fell from the stairs of the hotel at night and was taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead.
2. Sidhu Moose Wala: Punjabi music is never going to be the same again, as the industry lost the bold and soulful singer and rapper Sidhu Moose Wala. As per the reports, the 28-year-old musician was shot dead in his own village in Mansa district in Punjab. Influenced by English rapper Tupac Shakur, the rapper rose to fame with his single titled So High.
3. Sidharth Shukla: the winner of Bigg Boss 13, Sidharth Shukla passed away at the age of 40 after he suffered a heart attack. The actor managed to leave a stamp with his work in the Indian Tv industry and later moved to the Bollywood industry. The news broke many hearts and left us in pain.
4. Sushant Singh Rajput: We can’t forget the day of 14 Jun 2020, when the news came out that Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide. The Chicchhore actor was found dead in his Mumbai apartment. The death of the actor opened many dark secrets of the Bollywood industry and brought out a drug racket.
5. Puneeth Rajkumar: The superstar of the Kannada film industry, Puneet Rajkumar breathed his last on 29 October 2021. He died at the age of 46 and the cause of his demise is said to be a cardiac arrest.
6. Smita Patil: The Bollywood actress was just 31-year-old when she died while giving birth to her son Pratiek Babbar. With a long career and more than 80 movies under his credit list, the actress managed to prove herself a complete actress in her own right.
7. Divya Bharti: Divya Bharti died mysteriously when she was only 19 years old. Divya died after falling from the balcony of her fifth-floor apartment in Mumbai in 1993. The post-mortem report showed that Divya Bharti died due to a serious head injury and internal bleeding.
8. Jiah Khan: The beautiful and skilled actress, Jiah Khan was found dead at her Mumbai apartment in 2013 at the age of 25. Though the police declared her death a suicide, her mother Rabiya, kept fighting and alleged that she was murdered.
9. Pratyusha Banerjee: Pratyusha Banerjee, who played Anandi in 'Balika Vadhu', died on April 1, 2016, at the age of 24. She was found hanging at her Goregaon residence. The actress was rushed to a hospital in Andheri by her live-in boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh where she was declared brought dead.
10. Meena Kumari: Mahjabeen Bano well known by her stage name Meena Kumari referred to as The Tragedy Queen and also called female Guru Dutt of Indian Cinema. She was born on 1 August 1933 and started her acting career at an early age. On 31 March 1972, at the age of 38 the method actress, poetess, singer, costume designer Meena Kumari left the world due to liver cirrhosis.
