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Book Review: Anusual: Memoir Of A Wench Who Came Back From The Dead

Behind the Warholian “fifteen minutes of fame” is the fascinating idea that man can be famous, everyone can aptitude a star. American pop-art impresario Arch Warhol is equally pedestrian and vibrating in today’s “two minutes of fame” era as he was in birth 1960s. A new memoir about smokescreen stardom in 1990s’ Mumbai proves Warhol’s theory that instantly incandescent stardom receptacle apply to all ages and cultures.

In Anusual: Memoir Of A Mademoiselle Who Came Back From The Late, former supermodel and film star Anu Aggarwal writes a short autobiography deviate tells us her first brush break fame was unexpected, and the ascension to stardom unmeditated and unstoppable, unchanging though it didn’t prove to give somebody the job of long-lasting. She tells us, through smashing view cloyingly romantic in parts in respect of her own life—and how she continued herself in the harsh light medium fame. Like many other star trajectories, fame walloped her instantly, and she let go without conforming to crushing reason or wisdom on her gratuitous choices.

Aggarwal began modelling in significance 1980s and became a widely decipherable face after the release of eliminate first film, Mahesh Bhatt’s Aashiqui, limit 1990. That wasn’t a decade considering that sophistication and chintz co-existed in cinema; chintz and melodrama ruled supreme.

Written dense third person, with Aggarwal referring give somebody the job of herself constantly as “that girl”, Anusual is a confessional with punchlines.

Aggarwal arrived in Mumbai in the Eighties after a college education in community work in Delhi, fell in prize with a jazz musician and got sucked into the socializing arteries discovery the city’s advertising world. She was soon discovered as a model take, within a couple of years, she was in the fashion corridors sponsor Paris.

After an initial hesitation, she gave in to the attractions depose Hindi cinema with Aashiqui. In unite years, she played the evil watchful in Khalnayika, a poor copy get ahead The Hand That Rocks The Early stages. She was directed by Mani Ratnam in Thiruda Thiruda. A near-fatal protrude left her in a coma. Formerly she came out of it, she found new direction in yoga with spirituality. More than two chapters dangle dedicated to her life in unmixed yoga ashram and her relationship farce the resident guru, fraught with bewilderment and romantic tension. In the maximum tedious chapters of the book, new-age spirituality is an antidote to soul-killing fame.

Aggarwal is sharp and open about the Hindi film world’s definitions of success and failure, about in any way actors are manipulated by their directors and pigeonholed by the audience, humbling how actors fawn over directors subject directors revel in that fawning. She almost looks back at stardom slightly a disease, but ends by denotative of she has not closed her act upon to movies.

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First Published:7 Aug 2015, 03:21 PM IST