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She was feeling lonely in a mad crowd of over 15 million people of Mumbai. She was devastated and could not digest the reality of her profession. In an industry which is shortlived and known for oneupmanship, this was just waiting to happen. At last, she surrendered her life.
For the thousands of aspiring models and actors, who flock the glamorous Bollywood city of Mumbai, the suicide by the supermodel and the face of the Kamasutra campaign Viveka Babajee should be an eye-opener. The aspiring models should understand and keep it always in mind the reality and the pressures of this profession----that the glam and glamour is only one side of this glamorous coin.
The other side of the coin, most often, is dark. If not handled with care, it can lead you to where the Babajees have landed.
The 37-year-old Viveka Babajee, a former Miss Mauritius, ended her life on June 25 evening by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her residence in suburban Bandra, Mumbai. Though the immediate reason for the extreme step is attributed to her failed love affair with Gautam Vora, a stock broker in Mumbai, the real reasons might be something else. People close to the supermodel say that she was upset with life for several reasons, including loss in business and as well as reversals in her career. But, it is hard believe that she decided to kill herself just because a guy, with whom she had an affair for the last some months, had denied her. The real reasons might be an accumulation of several reasons and the lover Gautham Vora's refusal happened to be the proverbial last straw.
This is not the first time a beautiful young woman in the glamour profession has ended her life due to pressures on the personal front. Former Miss India and MTV veejay Nafisa Joseph, well known model Kuljeet Randhawa, and the list goes on.
The fact is that the life of a model, and for that matter to an extent the actors, is just some years when they are in demand. When the younger generation comes, the older ones get sidelined and ignored. This is the reality.
When the model, who rules the big ad world for quite some time, loses the primacy and glamor, depression comes in her life. She takes to alcohol, drugs, and so on and by the time she understands the reality everything loses.
So, aspiring models, BEWARE.
