the screenplay with him. Her next venture, Dance Like a Man, was released in 2005. and won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English for 2003. Accident and death In November 2005, she received a serious brain injury when a Maruti Alto lost control and collided with her Toyota Landcruiser at Vasant Kunj in Delhi while she was returning from Indira Gandhi International Airport after a trip to Amsterdam. She was subsequently put in a drug-induced coma and remained in that state for five years. She never recovered from the coma and died of cardiac arrest at her Defence Colony home in the early hours of 1 October 2010 at the age of 52. Personal life She was married to director Conrad Rooks and the couple had a son, Ryan, before they divorced in 1985. Later she dated Maharajkumar Shrimant Shivaji Rao Holkar of Indore (Prince Richard Holkar), the son of HH Maharaja Yeshwant Rao II Holkar of Indore, whom she had first met in 1998 in her Defence Colony neighbourhood. In the following years they grew close and decided to be life companions. Together Rooks and Holkar brought life back to Richard's ancestral home, Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, and were the directors of Ahilya Hospitality and Travels Private Limited. Holkar was accompanying her during the 2005 car accident. Richard Holkar joined the Indian Head Injury Foundation, founded in February 2007, by Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, whose son Shivraj Singh had received a serious head injury due to an accident on the polo grounds in Jaipur in February 2005. Filmography Works Miss Beatty's children'', Clarion Books, 1989. . References Indore genealogy External links Indian women film directors 1958 births 2010 deaths Indian documentary filmmakers Indian women screenwriters Indian women television producers Indian television producers 20th-century Indian film directors Film directors from Kolkata 20th-century Indian women artists Women artists from West Bengal Screenwriters from Kolkata Novelists from West Bengal Indian women novelists 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian film directors Indian women documentary filmmakers 21st-century Indian women artists Director whose film won the Best Debut Feature Film National Film Award Women television producers