Opened bathroom to find Sri dead: Boney

MUMBAI: As the mystery around Sridevi’s sudden demise last week continued, her husband and film producer Boney Kapoor has opened up — perhaps for the first time to a friend — about his unscheduled trip to see his wife in Dubai, how they hugged and kissed when he surprised her and how he found her lying in a bathtub full of water without a drop of water spilling out.

Boney has recounted the “detailed account of what exactly transpired on the fateful evening of February 24” to his friend of 30 years, trade analyst Komal Nahta, who has reproduced the conversation in a blog shared on his official Twitter page.

Nahta wrote that Boney told him he pushed open the bathroom door at around 8 pm after getting no response to loud calls for Sridevi and a knock on the door. It was barely two hours after Boney surprised Sridevi at Room No 2201 at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel here, that he faced the shock of her death, writes Nahta.

Boney, Sridevi and Khushi were in Dubai for a family wedding which wrapped up on February 20.

While Boney returned to attend an “important meeting” to attend in Lucknow on February 22, Sridevi continued her stay in Dubai to shop for Janhvi and spent two days “relaxing in her hotel room” . The producer told Nahta that he booked himself for a 3.30 pm flight to Dubai on February 24, and reached the hotel where his wife was staying at around 6.20 pm Dubai time. After reaching the hotel where the couple hugged and kissed, and chatted for around 15 minutes, Boney freshened up and suggested they go on a “romantic dinner”.

Then Sridevi, who as he says, was in “relaxation mode”, went for a bath.

In the living room, Boney told Nahta that he surfed channels and was watching the South AfricaIndia cricket match for few minutes followed by the Pakistan Super League cricket match highlights.

After around 15-20 minutes, he was restless as it was around 8 pm then and being a Saturday, he felt restaurants would fill up. He then walked to the bedroom and knocked at the bathroom door and even called out to her. “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.

But she probably never got a chance to even struggle for a minute because had she moved her arms and legs in panic while drowning, there would be some water spilling out of the tub.

SRIDEVI NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO EVEN STRUGGLE FOR A MINUTE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WATER OUTSIDE THE BATHTUB