Remember ‘Aashiqui’ fame Anu Aggarwal who shot to overnight fame after her debut opposite actor Rahul Roy?
Well, the former diva who was among the very few in the Hindi film industry to make it on her own and to redefine beauty standards to rule out the ‘fair is beautiful dictum, Anu recently opened up about the 1999 life-threatening accident that changed her life completely and how lonely she was in Mumbai despite fans lining up outside her house for autographs.
After a brief stint in modelling, and VJ-ing, and her appearance in the 1988 Doordarshan serial Isi Bahane, Anu debuted in Bollywood. She had plenty of offers from down South as well as from Hollywood. And while in Bollywood too she had good offers from the likes of Rakesh Rosha and Mani Ratnam, Anu discloses that she lived a lonely life in Mumbai and did not have ‘sugar daddies’.
She told ETimes in an exclusive chat, “After the success of ‘Aashiqui’, the kind of attention and love I got from the people…