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Jiah, 25, was found hanging at her posh residence in Juhu, Mumbai, on Monday night. Sources close to the three-film-old sultry starlet said she had lately been depressed over personal issues.

On Tuesday, following confirmation of her suicide, cops took to questioning actor Aditya Pancholi's son Sooraj, who was reportedly dating Jiah for a while.

It is not yet clear if Jiah's suicide is an outcome of a failed romance or of being rejected in a recent audition for a Telugu film (she has had no new film in hand since Sajid Khan's Housefull, her last release in 2010).

The answer could be both, going by a line Ram Gopal Varma tweeted. "The last time I met her, Jiah told me that everyone around her makes her feel like a failure," wrote RGV, who introduced her in his 2007 film, Nishabd.

Bad memories

As Bollywood took to tweeting its shock for most of the Tuesday, uncomfortable memories of many other such untimely deaths driven by a destructive streak started trickling into every mind.

Jiah, whose real name was Nafisa, is not the first young female celebrity succumbing to the pressure of balancing professional dazzle with a collapsing personal life.

Over the recent past we have had models Nafisa Joseph and Viveka Babajee, and TV actress Kuljeet Randhawa as examples.

Parveen Babi's body was discovered in her flat three days after she died, with gangrene on the left foot owing to a neglected diabetic condition.

JIAH KHAN

BORN: February 20, 1988 in New York, US DIED: June 3, 2013 in Mumbai, India

All of 25, actress Jiah Khan committed suicide on Monday night probably frustrated over her failing career and disturbed love life.

Only seven years ago, a young Nafisa Khan, who changed her name to Jiah after watching supermodel Gia Carangi's biopic - Gia - featuring Angelina Jolie, was hailed as a promising newcomer with a lot of ' spunk and spirit'.

The hype, however, was short- lived as was her career, cut short by an untimely death

Post-mortem revealed she had an empty stomach for several days and may have starved to death.