She gained wider recognition with the success of Shola Aur Shabnam (1992) and further solidified her position with Deewana (1992), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

[4] She had a younger brother named Kunal and a half-sister Poonam, who was the child of Om Prakash Bharti's first marriage.

After taking dancing and acting lessons for months to prepare for her role, Bharti was dropped and replaced by Juhi Chawla.

[16][17] Later that year, Bharti began filming A. Kodandarami Reddy's action romance Dharma Kshetram under Sri Rajeev Productions.

[18] While Bharti celebrated her success in Andhra Pradesh, Bollywood's top directors were eager to sign her for films.

[22] A week later, Bharti's next film, Lawrence D'Souza's romantic drama Dil Ka Kya Kasoor, in which she starred alongside Prithvi, was released.

[25][26] She achieved further success in Raj Kanwar's Filmfare Award-winning love story Deewana, which starred veteran actor Rishi Kapoor and newcomer Shahrukh Khan.

[28] Critics reported that Bharti belonged to a new breed of Hindi film actors who broke away from character stereotypes.

In October, she appeared in Hema Malini's romantic drama Dil Aashna Hai, which did not do as well at the box office.

Chittemma Mogudu was released in early 1993, again starring a popular couple of Bharti and Mohan Babu.

[40] Shortly before her death, she had completed filming for Rang and Shatranj; these were released posthumously on 7 July 1993 and 17 December 1993 respectively and achieved moderate success.

[43] Divya was also the first choice for the iconic role of Simra .. Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/118550593.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Bharti met director-producer Sajid Nadiadwala through actor Govinda while working on the set of Shola Aur Shabnam, following which she converted to Islam, changed her name to Sana, and married Nadiadwala on 10 May 1992[44] at a private Nikah ceremony in the presence of her hairdresser and friend Sandhya, Sandhya's husband, and a qazi at Nadiadwala's Tulsi Buildings residence in Mumbai.

[47][48] In the late evening hours of 5 April 1993, Bharti fell from the balcony window of her fifth-floor apartment in Tulsi Buildings, Versova, Andheri West in Mumbai.

[55] Shah Rukh Khan, who shared screen space with her in Deewana and Dil Aashna Hai, once said that she was "stunning as an actor".

Her talent was unbelievable, she'd do masti and bachpana (fun and childish behavior) before the shoot commenced and when asked for, she'd give such a perfect shot that I used to forget my own dialogues!".

"[58] Moreover, Chunky Panday has pronounced her to be "Chulbuli" (bubbly) and that "she was full of life, energy and loved to work with her in Vishwatma.

"[60] Producer Guddu Dhanoa, upon working with her in Deewana, has stated that, "Bollywood misses her a lot and the void which was created owing to her death could not be filled by anyone else."

Archana Puran Singh in the caption of one of her social media posts has written, "Divya was a sweet soul, still remember sobbing the day she passed away.

"[61] New-generation artists like Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma have also remembered Divya Bharti in some of their interviews.