58-year-old Nitin Dwarkadas Kapoor, Hindi actor Jeetendra's cousin, film producer and Telugu actress Jayasudha’s husband, who was undergoing treatment for depression, has allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a building, police said.

He leaped off from the terrace of the Sea Glimpse Apartment, a six-storey building, where he is put up at his sister's place in Andheri (West). Neighbours took him to Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle, where the doctors declared him brought dead.

Nitin Kapoor has produced two Telugu movies, Hands Up (2000) featuring Jayasudha  and Kalikalam (2012) and a Hindi film Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai (1990), starring Bollywood fame Rekha, Balaji Telefilms chairman Jeetendra and theatre artiste and Bollywood actor Anupam Kher.

The reasons for his alleged suicide are not yet known. Jayasudha has rushed to Mumbai, where police are investigating the death. More details are awaited. He is survived with two sons.

By Premji