Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar kidnapped, strangled & beheaded by co-stars

A stunning young Bollywood actress was killed in a gruesome murder that seems to be straight out of a horror movie.

Meenakshi Thapar, 26, was kidnapped, strangled and beheaded by two aspiring actors whom she met on the set of her latest film, "Heroine,” London"s Telegraph reported.

According to police, Amit Jaiswal and his girlfriend Preeti Surin allegedly lured Thapar on a trip with them to Gorakhpur, a small town known for its Buddhist temple.

During the trip, however, the duo reportedly held Thapar hostage and threatened her mother that they would force Thapar to do poography if their demands were not met.

Her mother paid 60,000 rupees (about $1,150) but never saw her daughter again.

Instead, according to the report, the couple strangled and beheaded Thapar and dumped her torso in a water tank before throwing her head out of a bus window.

"They wanted to extort money from her family. They have confessed to the crime. She was strangulated in a hotel and her body was hacked into pieces and thrown in a water tank. They threw her head from a moving bus while traveling back to Mumbai,” a detective told the Telegraph.

They were busted when they were caught with Thapar"s cell phone SIM card and confessed to the killing.

Authorities are hoping the accused killers can lead them to the actress" body.