New Delhi: Anu Aggarwal, a former actor best known for her role in Mahesh Bhatt's 'Aashiqui', left the movie business to embrace her spiritual side. The actor remembered a time when she had only two sets of clothes and endured near freezing conditions in a recent interview with YouTuber Siddharth Kannan.
Anu said that her life was completely different when she was a monk dwelling in the highlands. “When I was a monk, we lived in -5 degree temperature. There was no geyser. I had only one bag with two sets of clothes and one sweater, I spent many years in these many clothes. Our first class used to be at 4:30 am and for that we had to wake up, take a bath, wash our clothes, hang them to dry. I used to wake up at 2:30 so I could finish all these tasks before that,” she described her experience.
The actor revealed that due to the extremely cold temperatures, her hands and feet had been frozen for months.
“We would take showers in cold water, wash our clothes in cold water. For months, my hands and feet were frozen. There was one woolen cap I would wear because I was bald. But after all that, the entire day used to be very peaceful,” she said.
Early on in her acting career, Anu moved away from fame. Furthermore, the way she is living sounds nothing like how her life was in the 1990s when she was a movie star.
Anu described an incident that happened on Marine Drive in Mumbai in 1991, claiming that thousands of people approached her car and began to bang on it.
"They started banging my car, my windows shouting, 'Anu, Anu'. There was no driver, I was driving the car. I was thinking, 'They will break my car, pull me out.' I'm a fearless child, first time in my life I experienced fear. Thousands of people beating my car, screaming ‘Anu'," she said.
"I jumped out of the car from another door, ran towards a taxi, got into the taxi, and left the car there. I was going to the Taj for dinner, I had a meeting there," Anu added.
Anu Aggarwal recently made an appearance on Indian Idol alongside other members of the 'Aashiqui' cast as part of a special episode honouring the music of the movie.