Parveen Babi’s life was as tragic as her sudden and shocking death.
Once one of the most ground-breaking female actors of her time, Praveen Babi suffered from a number of failed relationships and a downward spiral of her mental health issues, that eventually led to her death in the year 2005.
Kabir Bedi, who was one of those who got to be up and close with the actress, as they dated during her prime – has now reflected back on her mental health and how it manifested in the duo’s lives.
Promoting his new book – Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Journey of an Actor, Kabir has stated that his relationship with Parveen was emotionally exhausting due to her mental issues.
In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, here’s what the actor was quoted telling:
“Her problems could have begun in childhood because she used to see spirits in the monuments around her house, that were related to her family’s history — the Babi-Pashtun clan had served emperor Humayun at one point. There was an incident where Parveen had one of her disturbing episodes, her mother said to Mahesh Bhatt, ‘Her father used to be like that, so my question was ‘Could it be genetics that created that situation’?”
Sad to know how the needs of Parveen Babi and her mental health crisis was ignored for all these years and she eventually succumbed to it at the age of 55.