This lovely actress, Anu Aggarwal, who rose to fame from Aashiqui (1990), has written a book describing her memoirs-Anusual-Memoir of a Girl Who Came Back from the Dead, which, according to her, is the story of a girl who was broken into a million pieces but is alive to tell the tale of how, like in a jigsaw puzzle, she brought the separated parts together back again.
It is the story of the dusky Delhi girl who went to Mumbai to become an international model, and star in a Bollywood movie Aashiqui in 1990 and later being involved in a horrifying car crash in 1999 that put her in a coma for 29 days. She writes, “I nearly died that night.
The doctors at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai still think it’s a miracle I am alive. Alive to tell you about the love I discovered through a ruptured body, a brain bleed, and several incisions of needles and sutures made with surgical thread tied tight.The policemen were astonished when they saw the white Mercedes take three 360-degree James Bond-kind of turns before flopping down next to the turbulent sea. It was only when they saw a female body slither out of the driver’s seat that they rushed to pick up her body, which looked electrocuted. Her feet fell on the broken glass of the windscreen; blood oozed out of her soles.”
Astonishingly, she recovered and put the pieces of her life back together, first taking sanyas and then returning to Mumbai to teach yoga.In the book, which is published by HarperCollins, Anu says she feels privileged to “not have left a leaf unturned, or a button unhooked in my exploration of sexuality, sensuality, or just an honest human connect with members of the opposite sex”.
By: Archa Dave
