It was April 17, 2004. Telugu superstar Soundarya had just boarded a single-engine Cessna 180 from the Jakkur airstrip near Bengaluru in Karnataka. Soundarya, the belle of Telugu cinema and a doctor, had just joined the BJP. She was on her way to Karimnagar in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to campaign for the BJP. It was 11 am. Five minutes later, the Cessna burst into a ball of flames and crashed. Soundarya, and her fellow passengers on that ill-fated flight, never made it out. They were all charred to death. Sowmya Sathyanarayana, popularly known as Soundarya, was only 32 when she died. Soundarya primarily worked in Telugu films apart from Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam cinema. She enjoyed widespread fame and recognition after sharing screen space with Amitabh Bachchan in the 1999 Hindi drama Sooryavansham. At the time of her death, Soundarya was pregnant. She was travelling to Karimnagar with her brother Amarnath, BJP party worker Ramesh Kadam, and pilot Joy Philips, none of whom made it out alive. In fact, there was no identification of …