Sridevi, 54, passed away on February 24 in her Dubai hotel room due to accidental drowning following loss of consciousness.
Nahta in his blog said Boney wanted to surprise Sridevi who had decided to spend a couple of days in Dubai to shop for daughter Janhvi after the wedding of nephew, actor Mohit Marwah, in Ras Al-Khaimah on February 20.
He said the 62-year-old producer had a meeting to attend in Lucknow on February 22, which he did. On the same day Sridevi, spent time with her friend, chatting and relaxing in her hotel room.
The producer said Sridevi had told him, "Papa (that's how Sridevi addressed Boney), I'm missing you."
Boney, however, didnt tell her that he would be joining her in Dubai in the evening.
"Boney recounted that there had been only two occasions in the last 24 years when they had not travelled together abroad when Sridevi had travelled alone on two brief foreign trips one to New Jersey and the other to Vancouver for two appearances...," Nahta wrote.
The filmmaker took a 3:30 p.m flight to Dubai and reached the Dubai hotel around 6.20 p.m (Dubai time).
According to Nahta, Boney suggested, the two go for a romantic dinner and requested Sridevi to postpone the shopping to the following day.
The actor, 54, then decided to go for a bath and get ready for the dinner.
"I went to the living room while Sridevi went to the master bathroom to bathe and get ready," Nahta quoted Boney as telling him.
"He made shout out to Sridevi from the living room but when he did not get any response he knocked at the bathroom door and even called out to her".
"The unsuspecting husband, hearing the tap inside on, then called out 'Jaan, Jaan' still louder but got no reply, which was unusual. He panicked and opened the door which had not been bolted from inside, nervous but yet not at all prepared for what he was going to see. The tub was full of water and Sridevi was immersed completely, from head to toe, inside the tub. Devastated, he reached out to her but watching her motionless, he feared the worst," Nahta added.
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