What happened the day Sridevi died? Boney Kapoor recounts to Komal Nahta

As the mystery around Sridevi's sudden demise last week continued, her husband and film producer Boney Kapoor has opened up -- perhaps for the first time to a friend -- about his unscheduled trip to see his wife in Dubai, how they hugged and kissed when he surprised her and how he found her lying in a bathtub full of water without a drop of water spilling out.

Boney has recounted the "detailed account of what exactly transpired on the fateful evening of February 24" to his friend of 30 years, trade analyst Komal Nahta, who has reproduced the conversation in a blog shared on his official Twitter page.

Nahta wrote that Boney told him he pushed open the bathroom door -- which had not been locked from inside -- at around 8 pm after getting no response to loud calls for Sridevi and a knock on the door. Earlier, there had been a lot of speculation about the time that Boney had opened the bathroom door.

Nahta told IANS that the conversation happened on Wednesday before Sridevi's funeral.

It was barely two hours after Boney surprised Sridevi -- his "jaan" and mother of their two daughters Janhvi and Khushi -- at Room No. 2201 at Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel here, that he faced the shock of her death, writes Nahta.

Daughter Jhanvi's tribute to Sridevi: It's all about loving your parents

Hinting at the sensational TV coverage of Sridevi's untimely death, Janhvi said all she wants is that people remember her mother "fondly and pray for her soul to rest in peace".

"On my birthday, the only thing I ask of all of you is that you love your parents. Cherish them and devote yourself to making them feel that love. They have made you. And I ask that you remember my mother fondly, pray for her soul to rest in peace. Let the love and adulation you'll shower on her continue and please know that the biggest part of my mother was the love she shared with papa.

"... Their love is immortal because there was nothing like it in the whole world. Nothing as joyful and pure and no two people as devoted to one another as they were. Please respect that because it hurts to think anyone would ever try to tarnish it," she wrote on Instagram.