Anu Aggarwal on life after her 1999 accident: ‘I took sanyas, shaved my head and lived with just one bag’

Anu Aggarwal’s life has been an intriguing story. A mannequin who needed to be social employee, she discovered in a single day stardom with Aashiqui within the 90s. She was an exception within the business, which was nonetheless dominated by the ‘fair-is-beautiful’ dictum in 1990. A number of years later, she gave up the arc lights to review yoga.
Then got here her “near death experience”. The automobile she was driving early one morning, throughout torrential rains, turned three somersaults earlier than crashing close to Mumbai’s Chowpatty space. The accident left her in a coma for 29 days, with a shattered physique. The former actor has now spoken in regards to the accident and the way her life modified after that.
“In the year 1999, I met with an accident and slipped into a coma. I used to live in an ashram before the accident where I had a spiritual name. After the accident, I knew nothing, but I knew my spiritual name. In 2001, I took ‘sanyas (renunciation)’ and kept my head shaved. I lived with a bag in one hand, in humble surroundings. just studying the mind and human psychology,” she mentioned in an interview.

“In 2006, I came back and started meeting people and the press stationed outside my house. I would greet them with humility,” she mentioned within the interview to Times of India, including, “After the accident, I had forgotten how to apply lipstick too. Soon people started to post my ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures. My no-makeup look pictures went viral. I was so shocked to see so much happening around me.”