Aashiqui star Anu Aggarwal reveals she saw the film after her memory loss, couldn’t ‘relate’ with girl on screen: ‘My mother played Aashiqui 2 for me, but…’

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Anu Aggarwal, who confesses of not watching films regularly, is now scripting a comeback. As she gears up to pick from where she had left, the actor spoke to Indianexpress.com about her career and answered if she remembers the last time she watched 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 told me, ‘See this was your film Aashiqui and now they have made Aashiqui 2.’ I asked her, ‘what is 2?’ Because I didn’t know numbers, what was one, two, three. That was my state.”

Even though she couldn’t identify with herself on screen, Anu said when she saw the film, it “moved” her. “I couldn’t think the girl on screen was me, but I felt the emotions. The film had such strong emotions. That’s why people still talk about it. At the end of the day, the audience responds to what they see and during the film, they were throwing money on screen, laughing and crying. That happened because the film does move you.”

The actor is now trying to hunt for the perfect script to get back to acting, nearly three decades after she voluntarily exited from the film industry. “My first bread and butter came from modelling, the entertainment business and then films. I am actor. I have been away for a very long time, but I am here to act. I have started meeting filmmakers, I am ready and already hearing scripts. I am going to sign something that I like,” she added.