Combined photograph of Rekha (L) and Rhea Chakraborty (R).
No one knew why their partners decided to end their lives, but everyone’s assumption has been to blame the women in their lives.
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They called her a witch and accused her of devouring her partner, the media harassed her, the film industry where she worked abandoned her, the media trial found her guilty of leading to the death of her partner. No one knew the truth, but the accusations and accusations flew from left to right and to the center and before anything could be proven, she was found guilty of killing her husband.
This is how longtime actress Rekha faced a media trial after her husband Mukesh Aggarwal died by suicide in 1990. Yet 30 years later, it seems like deja vu for actress Rhea Chakraborty, who faced a similar trial and is being accused. for pushing her partner, actor Sushant Singh Rajput, to suicide. Sushant was found hanging in his Bandra home on June 14.
In recent days, Rekha’s story has surfaced on social media after Rhea was arrested earlier this week by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The parallels between the two women’s story are remarkably similar. No one knew why their partners decided to end their lives, but everyone’s assumption has been to blame the women in their lives.
“A national witch hunt followed,” the post says, adding how rekha was called a ‘heartless man-eater’ across the country. His mother-in-law called him a witch who took his son. The grieving mother’s desperate lament made headlines back then. Rekha’s brother-in-law also blamed her for pushing him to suicide, the post adds. She also mentions Bollywood greats like Subhash Ghai and Anupam Kher giving strange statements.
Ghai even said that the incident had done great damage to the image of the actresses and respectable families would think twice about marrying their children to the actresses. Kher was quoted as saying that Rekha became a national vampire and that her career would be affected by the suicide of her husband.
Like Rhea, Rekha was also the subject of media sensationalism and headlines such as “The Black Widow, The Grim Truth Behind Mukesh’s Suicide.”
Rekha met businessman Mukesh in Delhi and the two fell in love. They were married in 1990. But just seven months after their marriage, Mukesh was found hanging, allegedly by his wife’s dupatta, in his bedroom in October 1990. The incident changed his life, professionally and personally, forever.
Mukesh suffered from chronic depression and Rekha found out only after their marriage, an excerpt from the book. Rekha: the untold story. Mukesh displayed erratic behavior that affected their relationship. Unable to cope with her condition, Rekha withdrew from the relationship and ended all contacts with her. A failed business added to her misery, while her friends also recall a time when she had shown suicidal tendencies.
It was a roller coaster ride for Rekha to return to the big screen with Phool Bane Angaray after being haunted by the death of her husband.
Thirty years have passed, but Rhea’s fate is similar to Rekha’s with cameras and television debates intruding on her privacy, a witch hunt, and a smear campaign haunting her.
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