Vaishali Takkar was planning to get married by December: Report

Vaishali Takkar, the Indian TV actress, died by suicide at her home in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. Her body was found by the police on Sunday. Initial investigation showed that Takkar had hung herself to death late Saturday night. Police have obtained a suicide note from Takkar’s home which reveals that she was under a lot of stress and was being harassed by her neighbour, Rahul, who media reports indicate was Takkar’s ex-boyfriend. Rahul is married and currently missing. Police are on the lookout.

Vaishali Takkar’s death has cast a pall of gloom over the Indian television community. The 29-year-old had started out in television with Ye Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, India’s longest-running TV serial, and had earned a lot of fame for her performance in Sasural Simar Ka.

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Following her death, Takkar’s friends’ actor Vikas Sethi and his wife Jhanvi told Times Of India that Vaishali was planning to get married by the end of the year to a California-based software engineer named Mitesh. “She told me that she was coming to Mumbai post-Diwali for her wedding shopping. She had planned to stay with us,” Jhanvi told TOI.

She further said that Vaishali had mentioned Mitesh to her nearly five months ago. “I even chatted with him on video call. He is quite sorted and sweet.”

Vikas Sethi, Vaishali’s colleague in Sasural Simar Ka, said everything was going fine. “She had made elaborate plans for her trip to Mumbai before the wedding. So, the news of her death shocked me. At first, I dismissed it as fake.”

“I asked Jhanvi to call up Vaishali but her calls went unanswered. We called her father, who told us he was in the crematorium. We froze and broke down eventually. Jhanvi was inconsolable.”

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Vaishali Takkar was earlier engaged to a Kenya-based dental surgeon named Abhinandan Singh. Takkar had posted pictures of their roka ceremony. But they eventually broke up and Takkar removed the pictures from her social media.