Anu Aggarwal recalls slapping Mehmood so hard that he started crying: ‘My character was a psycho’
Anu Aggarwal recalls making Mehmood cry during Khal-Naaikaa shoot. (Pic: PR Handout, Express Archive)
Actor and model Anu Aggarwal, best known for her role in the 1990 film Aashiqui, recently recalled a moment on the sets of her film Khal-Naaikaa when she accidentally made veteran actor Mehmood cry after slapping him during a scene. Anu shared that although she was hesitant to slap Mehmood—who was of her grandfather’s age at the time—she ended up hitting him harder than intended while performing the scene.
Recalling the incident in an interview with Lehren Retro, Anu said, “Shooting with Mehmood was a great experience. There was a scene in the film where I had to slap him. My character was a psycho in the film. It was so difficult for me to slap him. I had to prepare myself mentally for it because Mehmood was my grandfather’s age. I had to mentally totally remove myself from my personality. I slapped him so hard that he actually started crying. I felt so bad. I said cut and I hugged him, saying ‘I am so sorry.’ He said to me while crying, ‘Theek hai, theek hai.’”
Following her successful debut in Aashiqui, Anu starred in films like Ghazab Tamasha, King Uncle, Janam Kundli, and more. However, her promising career took a tragic turn in 1999 when she was involved in a life-altering accident that left her in a coma for 29 days, with no memory of her past.
In a previous interview with Indianexpress.com, Anu reflected on her career and revealed that after the accident, she couldn’t relate to her character in Aashiqui. “I watched the film when I had my memory loss after the accident. My mother played it for me, but I couldn’t relate with it at all. I couldn’t relate with the girl on screen! My mother kept saying, ‘That’s you!’ I just like a child kept looking at it, but I couldn’t connect. At that time Aashiqui 2 was out, so she then played that for me. But nothing still made sense to me,” she said.
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During the conversation, Anu also expressed her desire to return to acting. After voluntarily exiting the film industry nearly three decades ago, she is now actively searching for the perfect script to make her comeback.
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