Bollywood
actress
Nafisa
alias
Jiah
Khan
committed
suicide
at
her
residence
in
Mumbai's
Juhu
area,
police
said
Tuesday.
She
was
25.
The
Britain-born
actress
was
found
hanging
at
her
flat
in
Sagar
Sangeet
Building
in
the
posh
Juhu
area
of
northwest
Mumbai
around
midnight.
The
cause
of
the
suicide
is
not
yet
clear,
police
said,
adding
that
autopsy
reports
were
awaited.
Police
are
questioning
her
domestic
help,
security
persons
and
neighbours
to
ascertain
what
could
have
triggered
the
extreme
step.
News
of
her
death
was
first
reported
by
actress
Dia
Mirza
through
a
social
networking
site
around
1.45
am.
Jiah
shot
into
the
limelight
in
2007
with
her
debut
movie
Nishabd
in
which
she
starred
opposite
Amitabh
Bachchan.
She
got
a
Filmfare
Best
Debutant
nomination
for
the
Ram
Gopal
Varma
movie
in
which
she
plays
a
teenager
besotted
with
a
man
old
enough
to
be
her
father.
In
2008,
she
was
seen
along
with
Aamir
Khan
and
Asin
in
the
blockbuster
Ghajini,
a
remake
of
AR
Murugadoss'
Tamil
film
by
the
same
title.
She
was
last
seen
in
Sajid
Khan's
Housefull
with
Akshay
Kumar,
Reiteish
Deshmukh,
Deepika
Padukone
and
Lara
Dutta.
She
was
born
Nafisa
and
changed
her
name
to
Jiah
before
going
back
to
her
birth
name.
Her
mother
is
Rabiya
Amin,
an
actress
in
the
1980s
who
was
seen
in
the
Tahir
Hussain
movie
Dulha
Bikta
Hai.