After posting of Facebook, Marathi filmmaker ends life

Budding Marathi film producer Atul Tapkir committed suicide  on Sunday after posting a message on social media platform, Facebook. In 2015, he had produced Dhol Tashe, which did not do well.

Financial loss in filmmaking and family dispute were the reasons cited by the Pune-based filmmaker for his suicide. He had claimed that his wife, Priyanka, and brothers-in-law were torturing him after he suffered the financial loss and were not allowing him to meet his kids.

He was staying in a hotel at Karve Road in Pune. When in the morning, he did not opened the door, police was informed and the door was broken. He was found lying motionless in the bed. He is suspected to have consumed poison.

The body was sent to Sassoon General Hospital for post-mortem. The Deccan Gymkhana police station has registered a case and investigations were in progress.

“For six months, I’ve been driven away from my home and my wife has refused access to my children. I am now joining my (deceased) mother,” the suicide note states. In the Facebook post, Tapkir credits his father and sisters for standing by him.