Mumbai: Young actress Tunisha Sharma allegedly died by suicide on the sets of a television serial in Vasai in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said.
The 20-year-old TV and film actress went to the washroom but did not return for a long time. The door had to be broken open, and she was found hanging inside.
She was rushed to a hospital, where she was declared dead, reported NDTV.
Tunisha was playing the character of Shehzaadi Mariam in ‘Ali Baba Dastaan-E-Kabul’.
Senior inspector Kailash Barve of Valiv police station said that police was probing all angles, though Tunisha’s colleagues on set said she died by suicide.
Tunisha appeared in small roles in Bollywood films like ‘Fitoor’ (starring Aditya Roy Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Tabu and Lara Dutta), ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ (starring Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina), and ‘Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh’ (starring Vidya Balan and Arjun Rampal).
She also was a part of Salman Khan’s ‘Dabangg 3’.
Tunisha made her acting debut with the TV show ‘Bharat Ka Veer Putra –Maharana Pratap’. She went on to feature in shows like ‘Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat’, ‘Gabbar Poonchwala’, ‘Sher-e-Punjab: Maharaja Ranjit Singh’, ‘Internet Wala Love’ and ‘Ishq Subhan Allah’.
