Although Moushumi herself was known as quite a brat in her heyday, sometimes because she could take on any hero, however big, if he said anything off-colour to her, she and Babu brought up two of the most well-behaved little girls in the film industry. When Payal got married to Dicky Sinha, and there was a celebration at the Sun-n-Sand, none of us present there could've guessed how tragic this partnership was going to be. Or what a heavy price Payal, Moushumi and Babu would be paying for it.
It was only after her family saw her long and still continuing comatose condition that they began to realise what had led her to this state. The chirpy, warm girl who happily picked up a drink or tucked into a cookie was actually wilting away inside. She didn't share with her parents that the man they trusted as their son-in-law was not who they thought he was. The truth was breaking her within but she covered it up by living her life with gay abandon. With Disney, where she did very well for years, suddenly whittling down their staff, the blows were too many for this heavily diabetic young girl to handle. Slipping into a diabetic coma was on the cards.
Over these months, I've visited Payal many a time at the hospital, at her home and chatted with her parents to keep their morale up but could see their gradual disillusionment with their son-in-law. When Payal lay in a coma, Babu told me sadly, "This is the age when we should be on that side (indicating her bed) and they should be watching us with concern. No parent should go through what we are.
But their sorrows only got compounded. With showdowns and disputes over money and business with Dicky, it just got uglier, messier and sorrier. Moushumi and family do go to see Payal every day but the tension is heavy; there are cameras, there are time restrictions.
What was a personal and private sorrow has now unfortunately reached the courts. Their daughter in a coma and a legal battle on top of it fingers crossed that this story ends well.
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