Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Bollywood Dahlia

Indian actress Meenakshi Thapar (26), was allegedly kidnapped and definitely beheaded in an attempt to extort 1.5 million rupees from her family.  Damn shame to kill a piece of ass for what comes out to around $30,000.

Fellow actors Amit Jaiswal (36), and his lover Preeti Surin (who I assume is a woman, since it is never referenced in the article), met Thapar on the set of the horror film 404, which some say is the number of different bacterial strains in the Ganges.  It is alleged they killed her on the set of her new movie, ironically titled Heroine, after listening to her boast about her family’s wealth and status in Dehra Dun (which is the Himalayan foothills of northern India - kinda like their Walnut Creek).  That's a pretty lame boast, considering any life above begging and avoiding poverty pretty much levels that playing field.

The two actors invited her on a trip with them to Gorakhpur, a small town close to India’s border with Nepal, where they held her hostage and demanded ransom.  When Thapar’s parents paid only 60,000 Rupees, they killed the actress.  What did you expect?  That's barely $1,100.  Thapar was strangled to death, beheaded, and her body was dumped at two different sites.  Her killers dumped her torso in a water tank and her head thrown out of the bus window in a bag on the road to Mumbai (which is more common than you think). Jaiswal and Surin were caught and reportedly confessed to the murder.

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