'Celebrity status' often demands price which sometimes is very heavy... India TV has started a series 'Talash'- the search of yesteryear's Bollywood celebrities, who once had been the heartthrob of million fans & are now living the life of complete dark, of stark anonymity....., or I should say that people have forgotten them...There are many of such stars. But here I want to talk about Mandakini. ..
Manakini:...Ram Teri Ganga Maili's Ganga.. who skyrocketed to fame within a night, after playing a bold & beautiful avatar in great showman Rajkapoor's dream project & who overnight became dream girl of every Indian man. She did around 41 movies in her short Bollywood life span of 4 years.. some hits, many flops but every film with bold character... & then suddenly, one day she disappeared.
There were rumors that she had secretly married with underworld don Dawod Ibrahim & since then had been living with him in Dubai. Her snaps with don were distributed & showed everywhere in media. Nobody bothered to look for her... as in Bollowood the only rule that never breaks is.."the show must go on". .. no matter if showman or show-woman have changed...:-). ...So, the show went on & people forgot Mandakini.
Even I & my other media friends also thought that Mandakini was somewhere in Dubai with 'bhai'ji.
It was only yesterday, when I saw that series Talash on India TV, I got to know that she never got married with Dawod Ibrahim & that she is very much in Mumbai, in India.
As reporters tracked her down, they found that she was living a very ordinary housewife's life in her rented home in Mumbai, with her Tibetan doctor husband & two children. They showed her recent snap which clearly exposed folds of time on her face... a plump figure & a very ordinary 'housewife next door' appearance sum up to make Mandakini now a days. She was not interested in facing camera. She in fact refused to come in front of camera & giving interview. Instead, she sent the camera team to her husband's clinic who talked with reporters on her behalf. His husband is a nice man who had a chitchat with media persons & told many things about Mandakini and her years of anonymity. But of course there were many questions he couldn't answer like-
- how did they end up living such austere life while Mandakini was a star actor & must have earned quiet a fortune for herself?
- why did she not come forth to rubbish all the rumors about her links with Dawood Ibrahim if she was in Mumbai & had no such connections?
-Why did she suddenly disappear from the screen.., what made her to decide to leave her career midway, as a successful actor in the bollywood?
- why she chose to live the life of anonymity?
- Why does she not want to face camera..?
& there are many others.....
Her husband said that they were planning to produce a film with Hollywood actors & Mandakini was planning her comeback with that film . But I doubt it. I think it's a fake piece of information because with their rented home & a very ordinary clinic of Mr Mandakini, It didn't seem that they would be having enough funds to produce a film and that too with hollywood cast.
God knows what is the truth... but I am very intrigued by her story. I really wanna know what actually happened to her. Did she pay the price of fame...or was that her sudden awakening from that fame game, that made her leave the bollywood & take a way back to anonymity...?
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