Pic: Left - Neeraj Grover, Center - Maria Susairaj, Right - Emile Mathew
Ram Gopal Varma made a sensational declaration on his birthday today about the next project 'Oka Prema Katha' in Telugu and 'A Love Story' in Hindi based on the story of an aspiring model cum actress Maria Susairaj, who murdered creative director Neeraj Grover in 2008. The accused chopped dead body of victim into pieces and burnt them into ashes before disposing.
This disgusting and horrified incident has the root in love. It was love which turned them into dreadful souls. So Varma attached a tag line for A Love Story as, "From the heart, but is not for the faint hearted." RGV wants audience to get into the mindset of the characters as if the scenes are playing out in front of their own eyes. Maria's boy friend Emile Mathew was involved in this cold blooded crime. Maria Susairaj had affairs with both and has no impediments agreeing the fact that she had sex with Neeraj Grover before murdering him. Maria and Mathew are now behind the bars. Bold actress Mahie Gill will play Maria in this Love Story.
Actual Story:
Few crimes have captured the national imagination quite as compellingly as the murder of 25-year-old Neeraj Grover in May 2008. Bombay police say that the TV executive was lying naked in 27-year-old Kannada starlet Maria Susairaj's bedroom when her fiance, Emile Jerome Matthew, walked in and stabbed Grover to death. Maria and Emile are then said to have hacked the corpse into approximately 300 pieces before putting the chopped limbs on fire.
This outline makes the case sound like fodder for a Ram Gopal Verma potboiler.
The calmness with which Maria and Emile had conducted themselves afterwards was startling.
Naval lieutenant Jerome Mathew told investigators that the reason he had murdered media executive Neeraj Grover was because he had found him nude in his girlfriend's Malad home. Mathew and his girlfriend, Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, have been arrested for killing Grover and disposing of the body in the jungles of Manor after stuffing the chopped body parts into three bags.
Mathew said that when he had phoned Susairaj on May 6, she told him that Grover was helping her move into her new apartment at Dheeraj Solitaire building and would leave in a few hours. But when Mathew flew into Mumbai the next morning, he was shocked when Susairaj opened the door in a skimpy outfit. Mathew walked straight into her bedroom and found Grover in the nude.
Mathew was consumed with jealousy and rage as he realised what was happening behind his back. He headed straight to the kitchen and returned with a knife. The two men had a scuffle and Mathew eventually overpowered Grover, stabbing him several times.
Maria Monica Susairaj, had told him that she had not slept with Grover willingly. The couple then had consensual sex twice in the same flat, even as the body lay in a pool of blood, refuting claims that Mathew had raped her after the murder.
Mathew had never seen nor spoken to Grover before that fatal run in.
Matthew was taught techniques of man-to-man combat and how to use a dagger as part of his naval training. He put his skills to use to overpower Grover.
Susairaj used her credit card to shop for a knife and three bags from a local mall, since she had run out of cash. Matthew then used this new knife to chop Grover's body to pieces and stuff it into the three bags.
Grover's parents, who came down from UP to look for their missing son, met Maria on May 9. Barely three days later, Susairaj herself came to meet Maria with her brother and three of Grover's friends.
She requested the police to look into the case personally. But the police told her upfront that she was my 'suspect number 1'. She was taken aback at that time. But after her arrest, she admitted to her role in the crime.
Maria is described by her friends as "wilful, ambitious, sexually manipulative, and ultimately a figure of tragedy".
The value attached to money and fame, and the sense of entitlement many of the young feel without necessarily the talent, all this together becomes a lethal combination.
Source: Gulte
