At the height of her post-Aashiqui fame, Anu Aggarwal stepped away from mainstream films toward spirituality and ashram life — a choice widely gossiped about at the time.
After Aashiqui made her one of Bollywood's most bankable young heroines, Anu Aggarwal grew disillusioned with film stardom and increasingly drawn to yoga and meditation, spending time at an ashram. In an industry where few voluntarily leave at their peak, the decision was much discussed and often misread as instability or eccentricity.
She has since framed the choice as a deliberate spiritual search rather than a career mistake — one that, in hindsight, prepared her for the far greater test that followed the 1999 accident.
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