Boney Kapoor recounts Sridevi's last night, confirming KT exclusive

Dubai - Boney, Sridevi and daughter Khushi were in Ras Al Khaimah for a family wedding, which wrapped up on February 20.

Film producer Boney Kapoor has opened up to a friend about what exactly transpired on the fateful evening of February 24 when he found his wife, actor Sridevi, dead at a Dubai hotel.
Confirming what Khaleej Times had reported on the first day after the tragedy unfolded, Kapoor reportedly told his friend of 30 years, trade analyst Komal Nahta, about his unscheduled trip to Dubai to surprise Sridevi and how barely two hours later he found her dead in a "bathtub full of water".
Nahta reproduced the conversation he had with Kapoor in a blog.
Boney, Sridevi and daughter Khushi were in Ras Al Khaimah for a family wedding, which wrapped up on February 20. While Boney returned to attend an "important meeting" in Lucknow on February 22, Sridevi continued her stay in Dubai to shop for daughter Janhvi and spend two days "relaxing in her hotel room".
The producer reportedly told Nahta that on the fateful day, he returned to Dubai to surprise Sridevi. He said he reached the hotel his wife was staying in around 6.20pm.
As reported by Khaleej Times, the couple then chatted for 15 minutes and Kapoor suggested that they go for a "romantic dinner".
Then Sridevi, who was in a "relaxation mode", went for a bath.
"I went to the living room while Sridevi went to the master bathroom to bathe and get ready," Boney was quoted by Nahta as having said.
In the living room, Boney told Nahta that he surfed channels. After around 15-20 minutes, he was restless as it was around 8pm and being a Saturday, he felt restaurants would fill up.
Nahta wrote: "Boney's impatience made him shout out to Sridevi from the living room itself. After calling out to her twice, Boney lowered the volume of the TV set. Still no reply. He then walked to the bedroom and knocked at the bathroom door and even called out to her. The unsuspecting husband, hearing the tap inside on, then called out 'Jaan, Jaan' [meaning life, as Kapoor used to address his wife] still louder but got no reply, which was unusual.
"He panicked and opened the door which had not been bolted from inside, nervous but yet not at all prepared for what he was going to see. The tub was full of water and Sridevi was immersed completely, from head to toe, inside the tub. Devastated, he reached out to her but watching her motionless, he feared the worst.
"Sridevi had drowned! Boney's world had come crashing down."
Read the Khaleej Times initial report of the tragedy here: Last moments of Sridevi in Dubai hotel room
With inputs from IANS

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