The discordant notes in the musical Pandit family continue. Sibling composers Jatin and Lalit Pandit and singers Sulakshana and Vijayta Pandit are now gearing up for a long court battle for the murder of their eldest sibling Sandhya Singh. Ironically the prime suspect in this foul murder case is Sandhya's son Raghubir. The thought of the family's honour being so displayed in a courtroom is weighing heavily on the Pandits. Says Lalit Pandit, "Yes, sadly there's going to be a court trial. And the family has to face it. Our slain sister Sandhya's son Raghubir has been charge-sheeted. The cops say they'll keep investigating further. But circumstantial evidence points to only one murder accused." Tragically the eldest Pandit sibling singer Sulakshna Pandit, now of delicate mental health, is still in the dark about the gruesome developments in the family. Says Lalit, "She won't be able to handle the shock.
- 4/26/2014
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
As the police have begun to treat Raghuveer Pandit alias Bhola as a prime suspect in his mother's gruesome murder, the Pandit family braces itself for what could turn out to be an indelible slur on the family of musicians, namely sister Sulakshana and Vijayta Pandit, brothers Jatin, Lalit and Mandar. Speaking on behalf of the family, Lalit Pandit says, "We're very happy with the way the police has been investigating the case. Himanshu Roy (Mumbai Police's Joint Commissioner) is doing a thorough job. They have one by one eliminated all other suspects. And now we are very disturbed because our nephew Bhola (Raghuveer) is a prime suspect. It is very distressing to have this calamity befall the family. We all have begun to think like crime investigators after our sister's murder. And we wonder if our nephew is capable of this unimaginable crime." Apparently, Raghuveer has been keeping the...
- 7/1/2013
- BollywoodHungama
The Pandit family, siblings Jatin, Lalit, Sulakshana and Vijeta Pandit, are currently going through a period of monstrous churning. The heinous murder of the family's eldest sister Sandhya has changed the family's life forever. "We spend the entire day at the Crime Branch. Now that we know our sister has been so brutally murdered we want a decent closure of her case. We want to know who killed her," says the murdered woman's brother Lalit who has been quoted by "police sources" as laying the blame on the slain woman's son. Lalit completely denies ever holding anyone culpable. "I was shocked to read police sources claim that I had blamed my sister's son Raghuvir. After reading the report I spoke to the police at the Nerul police station. He told me that no such statement had been issued by anyone in the police department. It'd be the height of irresponsibility...
- 2/4/2013
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Police discovered a skull of an unidentified body upon at the marshlands near Delhi Public School (Dps) in Nerul (West) on Sunday and geologist Michael John Oates stumbled upon the skull and finally the owner of the skull was identified and it was none other than Sandhya Singh, sister of renowned music-composer duo Jatin-Lalit and yesteryear actresses Vijayta Pandit and Sulakshana Pandit who was missing since December 13th. The police have also recovered a salwar kameez, a gold chain and a rudraksh near the skull, after digging at the spot. The family was informed and later they identified these items as Sandhya’s belongings. Sandhya we...
- 1/30/2013
- Bollywoodmantra.com
Mumbai, Dec 26: Former actress and wife of music composer Aadesh Shrivastav, Vijeta Pandit, is sickened and distraught with worry about her sister Sandhya Singh, who has gone missing since Dec 13.
Vijeta, whose fear is that her sister was killed for her jewellery just as she was about to enter a bank, is baffled that Mumbai police have not been able to gather any information on her whereabouts.
Crazed with worry Vijeta says: "What has happened to my sister? We don't know! She's happily married and she is the prettiest among us sisters. She's two years older than me. Unlike Sulakshana Didi and me, she never wanted to be.
Vijeta, whose fear is that her sister was killed for her jewellery just as she was about to enter a bank, is baffled that Mumbai police have not been able to gather any information on her whereabouts.
Crazed with worry Vijeta says: "What has happened to my sister? We don't know! She's happily married and she is the prettiest among us sisters. She's two years older than me. Unlike Sulakshana Didi and me, she never wanted to be.
- 12/26/2012
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Films that gained a ‘cult following’ over the years, despite being unnoticed on release
Back in the 80s, all we had was Doordarshan. Anything you wanted to know about cinema, mythology, world literature, astronomy, science fiction, history; it was all there – right in your living room. So, in that glorious age of kitsch, I remember noticing this bubbly-looking but rather demure young woman in two films – one was Raghuveer Yadav-starrer Massey Sahib (1985) and this obscure film with an interesting name – In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989). By the third time I caught her on TV, she had won a Booker Prize for fiction, for her book The God of Small Things. She was Arundhati Roy – the above-mentioned films were made by her then husband, Pradip Krishen. But we’re more interested in the second film – In Which Annie… was about a group of students in an Architecture College in Delhi,...
Back in the 80s, all we had was Doordarshan. Anything you wanted to know about cinema, mythology, world literature, astronomy, science fiction, history; it was all there – right in your living room. So, in that glorious age of kitsch, I remember noticing this bubbly-looking but rather demure young woman in two films – one was Raghuveer Yadav-starrer Massey Sahib (1985) and this obscure film with an interesting name – In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989). By the third time I caught her on TV, she had won a Booker Prize for fiction, for her book The God of Small Things. She was Arundhati Roy – the above-mentioned films were made by her then husband, Pradip Krishen. But we’re more interested in the second film – In Which Annie… was about a group of students in an Architecture College in Delhi,...
- 8/21/2012
- by Amborish Roychoudhury
- DearCinema.com
What: Anniversary bashWhere: Sun ‘N’ Sand, Juhu Aadesh Srivastava and wife Sulakshana Pandit celebrated their wedding anniversary. Shekhar Suman who came in midway mingled with everyone except lyricist Sameer. Both of them were later seen having a fierce war of words outside the venue. Sonu Nigaam chatted with the shutterbugs. His wife Madhurima flaunted her new tattoo on her back. ...
- 5/14/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
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