When asked why he went in for anticipatory bail if he had nothing to fear, Mahendra said: "I'm being shadowed by the police and I don't know what they would do next. One day Shobha committed suicide and Balu was suspected as having played a role. It is said that she would act like a truant child around uncle Balu Mahendra. Even as Shobha went on to earn the National Award her personal life was on a slide. The sharks in the industry want to destroy me," he said. Shobha would become the first scandal in Balus life. "I am a very good film-maker who challenged the accepted norms of the industry through my classics like Aziatha Kolangal and Kokila. He was emphatic that "a simple case of suicide due to pressure from her family" had been complicated by repeated representations made by Prema and "vested interests" in the film industry determined to finish him. Mahendra, when tracked down by India Today to his hide-out in a city hotel, candidly admitted administering "pills" to Shoba. "Until my dying day, I'll go on believing it was murder most foul."ĭescribing Mahendra's relationship with Shoba as "nothing but incest" Prema said: "How could he do it? He kept on telling everyone that Shoba was like his daughter." She accused Mahendra of practising black magic and hypnotism and drugging Shoba with "all sorts of pills". "If only there was an Agatha Christie or a Sherlock Holmes, this 'whodunit' mystery would have been solved long ago," said Prema sobbing. Five months after the death of her only daughter, Mrs Prema Menon looked withered and tired.
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