'She was excited about wedding'

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Nafisa Joseph was one of the biggest stars Bangalore was proud of. Not surprisingly, the city’s glamour set is in a state of shock. Fashion designer Manoviraj Khosla was working on the wardrobe for her fiancé Gautam Khanduja when he heard about her. Since then, his phone hasn’t stopped ringing.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">"I met her around three weeks ago. She was perfectly fine. I remember congratulating her," says Khosla, who briefly interacted with Khanduja and his family. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">"There was some talk of the wedding plans going awry, but there was nothing official about it," says the designer, who has known her since she was 14. </span><br /><br /></div> <div align="center" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" border="1" width="80.7%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" color:="" ba0000="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">TALKING POINT:</span><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""> </span><a href="http://people.indiatimes.com/articleshow/795992.cms" target="_blank" style="" font-size:10ptfont-family:arialfont-weight:boldcolor:000000="">Nafisa - Wish U Knew We Love U</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Joseph had started modelling young - at 12, when her parents took her to their good friend and fashion impresario Prasad Bidapa. After modelling for a couple of years, the former Miss India took a break, and joined again when she was 16. Bidapa, godfather to Bangalore’s fashion aspirants, was instrumental in grooming Joseph for the beauty contest. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">"Nafisa was very bright. She had a dream life, a dream career. She had a strong presence. Now, all that has gone down the drain. If I had any inkling about her problem, I would have been helpful," Bidapa says, sounding shaken over the phone. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Bidapa says Joseph would call him up if she was ever depressed. "Everyone is depressed once in a while. She did have a couple of relationships earlier which didn’t work out. But it’s completely beyond me that someone like her would have ended her life over one relationship." </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Bidapa recounts how Joseph had sounded excited about her marriage when they last spoke over the phone about two weeks back. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Former Miss India Manpreet Brar Walia, who did fashion shows with Joseph some years ago, remembers her as a "very balanced, level-headed person."</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Walia’s career graph followed a similar pattern – winning the Miss India crown, modelling and hosting shows. Asked if being a celebrity takes an extra toll on one’s emotional well-being, Walia says, "This is an isolated case. It would be wrong to generalise."</span></div> </div>