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Nafisa Joseph (1978-2004) was an Indian mannequin and MTV video jockey. She was the winner of the Femina Miss India Universe 1997, and likewise reached the finals of the Miss Universe Pageant (1997) held in Miami Seaside. Nafisa was an animal rights activist. She dedicated suicide on 29 July 2004.

Wiki/Biography

Nafisa Joseph was born on Tuesday, 28 March 1978 (age 26; on the time of dying) in Delhi and was introduced up in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She accomplished her education at Bishop Cottons Woman’s College, Bengaluru, Karnataka. She studied at St. Joseph’s Faculty (Autonomous), Bengaluru, Karnataka. Nafisa discontinued her research after she received the Miss India crown. She was fondly known as ‘Tutu’ by her kinfolk and her mentor Prasad Bidapa.

Bodily Look

Hair Color: Black (dyed brown)

Eye Color: Brown

Household

Mother and father & Siblings

Her father, Nirmal Joseph, was a catholic Christian from Kerala, and her mom, Usha Joseph, a Bengali, was a descendant of Tagore. Usha is the primary cousin of Sharmila Tagore. Her paternal grandmother was a Muslim, and a few experiences steered that it was how Nafisa acquired her first identify. She was associated (maternal aspect) to the Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan, and Saba Ali Khan. Nafisa had an elder sister.

Nafisa’s dad and mom

Relationships/Affairs

Sameer Malhotra

Nafisa Joseph was in a relationship with the Bangalore-based mannequin Sameer Malhotra and was engaged to him submit her Miss India victory. The rationale for his or her breakup is unknown.

Samir Soni

She was then in a relationship with the Mumbai-based actor Samir Soni. She had met him after she broke up with Sameer Malhotra, and Samir had simply gotten out of his first marriage. Samir was working in one in all Sandeep Sikhand’s play after they each met for the primary time they usually began going out shortly after that and was relationship for almost two years. In an interview, she revealed that Samir was obsessive about astrological indicators and he or she acquired influenced by his behavior and have become fascinated about astrology. They have been each engaged and have been set to marry one another, however the wedding ceremony didn’t happen, they usually introduced their breakup.

Samir Soni

Rahul Bose

Some experiences steered that after her engagement with Samir was known as off she dated actor Rahul Bose for a while and was engaged to him. Nevertheless, the connection didn’t final they usually cut up up.

Rahul Bose (Bollywood actor)

Gautam Khanduja

After saying her cut up from Rahul Bose, Nafisa Joseph dated the Mumbai-based car businessman Gautam Khanduja. They met one another for the primary time in 2003, at a celebration in Mumbai. He was additionally knowledgeable windsurfer and diving teacher and he or she fondly known as him a ‘seashore bum’. In an interview, she described him as a caring and delicate individual. The connection lasted almost two years they usually acquired engaged and every little thing was set for his or her marriage. Naifsa and Gautam have been to be formally married on 7 August 2004. Some experiences steered that Nafisa had invited her mates from Bangalore and lots of different outstanding figures within the business from numerous locations. Nevertheless, they introduced that the marriage was known as off when the date of their marriage was lower than a couple of weeks away.

Nafisa Joseph with Gautam Khanduja

Some experiences steered that Gautam was already married after they met; nevertheless, he informed Nafisa that he had filed for divorce and promised to marry her. Nafisa had a quarrel with him about his divorce and the legalities of it, as her dad and mom had demanded that the divorce papers be in place earlier than they acquired married and following this he known as off the marriage with hardly two weeks to go. Some experiences steered that she had blackmailed him with threats to fulfill his spouse when he denied to point out her the divorce paperwork he mentioned he had, different experiences steered that he had threatened her over her allegations and questioning. The choice to name off their marriage had severely affected her psychological well being and he or she was in despair.

Profession

Modelling

She began modelling on the age of twelve in a Wearhouse commercial. The Bangalore-based trend stylist and choreographer Prasad Bidapa was her mentor, and he groomed Nafisa as a mannequin. Bidapa was launched to a younger Nafisa by way of his mates who thought Prasad was one of the best individual for the younger Nafisa to study from. She took a break throughout her early days as a mannequin to finish her closing 12 months of education and resumed modelling on the age of sixteen. In an interview, Prasad Bidapa described her as an intensive skilled and mentioned,

She was such a ravishing, sensible lady. I’d name her a superachiever.”

Magnificence Pageants

Nafisa informed Bidapa that she needed to develop into knowledgeable mannequin and began coaching below him and later knowledgeable him about her want of collaborating within the Miss India contest (1997). Nafisa needed to persuade Prasad who thought that she was too younger to take part within the contest as she was simply nineteen years previous. She was the youngest participant within the Femina Miss India Universe 1997 and was topped the winner. She then participated within the Miss Universe Pageant in Miami Seaside, Florida and reached the finals.

Nafisa Joseph was the Femina Miss India in 1997

Video Jockey/Host

Following her victory within the Miss India contest, she hosted this system ‘Housefull’ which was telecasted on MTV, for 5 years between 1999 and 2004. In 2004, she left MTV and joined Star World and hosted the present ‘Type.’ In an interview, Prasad Bidapa mentioned that when Nafisa left MTV in 2004, she had requested for his opinion on what she ought to do subsequent in her profession to which he identified to her that she ought to proceed working for tv and informed her to be the Oprah Winfrey of Indian tv.

Nafisa Joseph presenting MTV Housefull

Tv Present

C.A.T.S.

In 2001, Nafisa was solid as one of many lead actresses in Sony Leisure Tv’s sequence titled C.A.T.S. This system was primarily based on the American sequence, Charlie’s Angels, and Nafisa Joseph starred with Malini Sharma and Kuljeet Randhawa within the lead roles. Nafisa performed the position of Careena, a detective.

Nafisa Joseph as Careena in C.A.T.S. (left)

Tv Programming Unit

In 2004, she launched her personal manufacturing firm ‘2’s Firm’ with the assistance of Gautam Khanduja. In an interview, she revealed that she had deliberate to start out her new enterprise with a journey present.

Controversies

What made her finish her life?

Some experiences steered that Nafisa was devastated after her marriage with Gautam Khanduja was known as off. After she dedicated suicide, her dad and mom instantly blamed Gautam’s rejection had triggered her suicide and filed a grievance towards him. In an interview, her mom mentioned that after Nafisa had questioned Gautam concerning the divorce paperwork he known as off the marriage and it closely impacted Nafisa’s psychological well being, and the next day Nafisa refused to eat, sleep or see a physician and in the end took her life. Following the grievance registered by her dad and mom, Gautam filed for anticipatory bail which was rejected by an area courtroom in Mumbai, which mentioned that upon preliminary examination there have been items of proof towards him for abetting Nafisa’s suicide.  Following the rejection of anticipatory bail within the periods courtroom, he allegedly went underground and through that point he filed for an attraction on the Bombay Excessive Courtroom and was granted bail. He was later arrested below part 306 (abetment of suicide) and was questioned by the police, he was not stored in lockup, and his arrest was carried out for submitting the chargesheet as he was accused of a cognizable offence. He informed the police that he disliked her fixed ingesting and alleged that she was short-tempered and that they’d a number of arguments after she was drunk, which made him rethink their choice to get married. In his assertion to the Versova Police, Gautam had cited Nafisa’s ingesting as one of many causes behind their parting. The police mentioned that there have been temperamental variations between Nafisa and Gautam and identified it was the primary purpose for his or her parting. On 30 December 2003, Versova police fined Nafisa for rash driving following the grievance of a pair; she didn’t have her license along with her on the time. Khanduja had accused that she was vulnerable to reckless driving after she was drunk. Gautam had produced Nafisa’s diary on the courtroom and alleged that Nafisa suffered from periodic despair and anxiousness, which triggered her suicide. He additionally identified that she had been utilizing Restyl, which belongs to a category of medicines often known as benzodiazepines, used to deal with anxiousness. In his affidavit, Nafisa’s father, Nirmal Joseph, accused Gautam had misused her personal diary to his profit and refuted the declare that she was affected by periodic despair, Joseph additionally added that the contents of the diary have been taken out of context and time and argued that Nafisa began taking Restyl after a spot of 1 12 months when she did not get the divorce papers from Khanduja and that she was upset over the truth that Gautam had continued to function a joint checking account along with his then-wife Nausheen Ali, regardless that Nafisa and Gautam have been about to be married. Joseph rebutted Gautam’s declare that Nafisa was a routine drinker and slammed that it was a baseless argument. In an interview, one in all Nafisa’s mates alleged that a couple of days earlier than Nafisa dedicated suicide, Nafisa had deliberate to file a defamation lawsuit towards Gautam, who had unfold false rumours about Nafisa, notably about her ingesting, amongst their frequent mates. Nafisa reportedly informed her buddy that Gautam suffered from an inferiority advanced.  Some experiences steered that there have been some inflicted accidents on her forearms and cheeks which have been two days earlier than her suicide and the bruises have been mentioned to have been made with a blade or fingernails. She additionally had a swelling beneath the left eye, which in response to the police may have been brought on by a blow to her cheek. Whereas some experiences steered that she had inflicted these accidents by herself on account of her despair, others steered the opportunity of an assault towards her as she and Gautam did have a fallout earlier than her premature dying. Nevertheless, the post-mortem experiences denied any such accidents and the then DCP Amitabh Gupta mentioned that Nafisa died of hanging and no different purpose, additionally he refuted the claims that there have been any accidents on her physique versus the experiences which have been circulated by way of totally different media. Some experiences steered that Gautam was not current on the Cooper hospital throughout Nafisa’s post-mortem and that he had distanced himself at her funeral; nevertheless, a buddy of his mentioned to the media that Gautam was current on the Cooper hospital when the post-mortem was carried out however selected to not go away his automotive as he was afraid of the press. In his press launch, Gautam lamented the intrusion of his privateness and accused the media had circulated false details about his household and the dying of his fiance. He additionally denied the rumours that he was not divorced and clarified that he was certainly a divorcee versus the experiences propagated by way of totally different media. On November 2005, the Excessive Courtroom of Bombay stayed the trial in a decrease courtroom towards Gautam Khanduja and restrained the periods courtroom from framing prices within the Nafisa case until 31 January 2006. In his plea of discharge submitted on the Bombay Excessive Courtroom, Khanduja maintain to his assertion that he had no reference to Nafisa’s suicide. He identified that no hyperlinks had been established to show that the choice to cancel their marriage was the explanation for her suicide. He additionally identified that it was not the primary time Nafisa had damaged off an engagement and cited her failed earlier engagements with Sameer Malhotra and Sameer Soni.

Demise

Nafisa dedicated suicide on 29 July 2004. In response to some sources, she hung herself from a ceiling fan in her Juhu-Versova flat in Mumbai, India. Police post-mortem experiences confirmed that the model-turned-VJ ended her life by hanging. Nafisa was in despair following her cut up with Gautam Khanduja and a few experiences steered that Nafisa confided along with her mom and her shut buddy Poonam Malhotra and talked about her fiance and their cancelled wedding ceremony hours earlier than she dedicated suicide. Usha Joseph, Poonam Malhotra, and a maid have been current at Nafisa’s flat when the mannequin dedicated suicide. Some experiences steered that Nafisa reportedly requested her mom and buddy to go away her alone after which locked them each in a single room, she then requested her maid Durga, to go away the flat and went into her room and hung from the ceiling fan in her room utilizing a dupatta. Durga had stayed round and it was she who alerted the watchman when Nafisa’s mom raised an alarm from the room. The watchman entered the constructing by way of a gap close to the AC duct of the room and broke the door and located Nafisa. Nafisa was alive when her mom and others first noticed her and have been rushed to a close-by hospital. However she was declared lifeless by the point she was taken to the Nonavati Hospital in Vile Parle, Mumbai, India. The post-mortem was carried out on the Cooper hospital in north Mumbai, India, and her physique was launched to her kinfolk and was created later. Following the information of her demise, Rahul Bose informed the media that he was shocked and mentioned it was a tragedy. He added that she was a beautiful human being. Many outstanding figures from the style world, tv business, and Bollywood paid tribute to the mannequin and expressed their dismay at her sudden dying. Bollywood actors Sanjay Suri and Amrita Arora together with Prasad Bidapa have been current with the household until the final rites have been accomplished.

Details/Trivia

• In an interview, she revealed that she was proud of modelling and internet hosting tv reveals and had dominated out a profession in performing. Nevertheless, she had carried out a cameo in Subash Ghai’s directorial ‘Taal’ (1999).

• In 1996, Nafisa labored as a VJ at MTV and in 1999, she labored as a decide for the MTV India VJ Hunt.

• Throughout the Miss World Pageant, Nafisa identified that in response to her, bringing a baby into the world and never with the ability to provide it peace was the largest injustice carried out on this planet.

• In an interview, Indian actress Gul Panag who received the Femina Miss India Universe 1999, mentioned that she acquired into the world of trend after being impressed by how Nafisa Joseph had carried out herself in the course of the Femina Miss India Universe 1997.

• Nafisa had ready for the LLB entrance examinations and was critical about pursuing a profession in legislation; nevertheless, her plans have been modified following her success because the Femina Miss India Universe in 1999.

• In an interview, Indian entrepreneur Sharad Ashani revealed that the suicide of Nafisa Joseph had influenced him to give you his Anti-Suicide Fan Rod, often known as the Gold Life Sensible Fan Rod.

• As a university pupil, she was fascinated about Literature and had informed Cherian Alexander, her lecturer in English at St. Joseph’s Faculty (Autonomous), Bengaluru, Karnataka, that she want to proceed her research as soon as she was carried out with modelling.

• Nafisa used to play guitar and piano since her childhood and was obsessed with music. Throughout her time on the Bishop Cottons Woman’s College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, she was a member of the varsity choir.

• In 2006, Kuljeet Randhawa, a co-star of Nafisa in C.A.T.S. dedicated suicide in her flat in Mumbai. Some experiences steered that Kuljeet was deeply affected by Nafisa’s suicide, with whom Randhawa had developed a detailed bond in the course of the filming of C.A.T.S. and likewise Kuljeet used to go to Nafisa’s dad and mom after her dying and consoled them. In an interview, Nafisa’s father, Nirmal Joseph, mentioned that each he and his spouse was shocked by the demise of Randhawa and identified that she used to typically go to them and had visited them simply two weeks earlier than her dying at their residence in Bangalore.

• Nafisa was an ardent animal lover and was actively concerned with organizations like Individuals for the Moral Therapy of Animals (PETA), Blue Cross of India, and Individuals for Animals (PFA). She had quite a few written articles for the Bangalore version of The Instances of India below the weekly column ‘Nafisa for Animals.’ In an interview, Anuradha Sawhney, the ex-Chief Functionary of Indian operations of PETA, described Nafisa as heat and compassionate and identified that Nafisa had by no means worn leather-based and at all times used cosmetics which weren’t examined on animals. Nafisa had seven cats and two canine and infrequently helped stray canine and wounded animals on the streets. After her dying, her dad and mom took her pets to Bangalore with them. In an interview, she revealed her dislike for circuses and voiced her concern about utilizing animals within the circuses. She was campaigning towards the Gemini Circus in Bangalore opened in 1998.