Anu Aggarwal Reveals Slapping Mehmood During Filming, Making Him Cry: ‘My Character Was A Psycho'

Anu Aggarwal, the actor and model famously known for her role in the 1990 film ‘Aashiqui’, recently shared a poignant memory from the sets of her film ‘Khal-Naaikaa’. During an interview with Lehren Retro, she recounted an incident where she unintentionally made the veteran actor Mehmood cry after slapping him in a scene. Anu revealed that she was initially reluctant to deliver the slap, given that Mehmood was the same age as her grandfather. Despite her hesitation, the intensity of the scene led her to hit him harder than she intended.

Reflecting on the experience, 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.’”

Anu’s career, which took off with the success of ‘Aashiqui’, included roles in films such as ‘Ghazab Tamasha’, ‘King Uncle’, and ‘Janam Kundli’. However, her rising trajectory was tragically interrupted in 1999 when she was involved in a severe accident, leaving her in a coma for 29 days and with complete memory loss of her past life.

In a previous conversation with Indianexpress.com, Anu spoke about the disconnection she felt with her past, particularly her role 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 shared.

Now, after almost three decades away from the film industry, Anu has expressed a strong desire to return to acting. She is currently on the lookout for the right script that would mark her much-anticipated comeback.