Aashiqui Star Anu Aggarwal Says Makers Owe Her 40 Percent Of Fees: ‘Meri Gift Hai Unko'

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Last Updated:May 18, 2025, 14:44 IST

Anu Aggarwal revealed she lone received 60% of her outgo for Aashiqui (1990).

Aashiqui released successful 1990.

More than 30 years aft her iconic debut successful Aashiqui (1990), Anu Aggarwal has opened up astir the unfinished concern down the blockbuster, successful a chat with Pinkvilla. While the movie turned her into a nationalist sensation, the histrion revealed that she ne'er received her afloat payment. Aashiqui was jointly produced by T-Series and Vishesh Films.

“I haven’t gotten the afloat fees for Aashiqui till today. I’ve lone been paid 60% of the afloat fees. They inactive beryllium maine the 40%," said Aggarwal. She besides mentioned that she ne'er followed up with the producers to retrieve the remaining payment. “It’s okay, I earned a lot. I earned overmuch much successful modelling. I became a marque ambassador," she said.

In her interrogation with Pinkvilla, Anu Aggarwal said she was the archetypal histrion to go a marque ambassador, astatine a clip erstwhile adjacent antheral actors hadn’t taken connected specified roles. “There wasn’t adjacent a antheral histrion who was a marque ambassador backmost then. Only cricket heroes were marque ambassadors then, similar Sunil Gavaskar and all. Theek hai yaar. Ye meri acquisition hai unko (It’s okay. This is my acquisition to them)," she said, astir the unpaid fees.

Anu Aggarwal shared that successful the past, actors who asked for their unpaid fees often faced unfair treatment. She said the movie manufacture was heavy influenced by the underworld astatine the time.“It was a soiled business. Today, I’m not successful it. If I bash a movie now, I tin archer you however soiled it is compared to backmost then. At that time, it was each nether the table. It was ruled by radical similar Dawood Ibrahim. All the wealth that came into the manufacture came from the underworld. So it was a wholly antithetic scenario," she went connected to add.

Released successful 1990, Aashiqui became a monolithic deed and is remembered arsenic 1 of Bollywood’s astir iconic romanticist musicals. Directed by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by T-Series’ Gulshan Kumar on with Vishesh Films, the movie starred newcomers Anu Aggarwal and Rahul Roy. While the communicative was simple, it struck a chord with audiences, mostly acknowledgment to its chart-topping soundtrack composed by Nadeem-Shravan. Songs similar “Dheere Dheere Se" and “Nazar Ke Saamne" turned into instant classics and stay fashionable to this day.

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