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In a recent chat with for Mid-Day's The Bombay Film Podcast, host Mayank Shekhar asked the actress if she was aware of a fan's death in Bhopal? A guy in the 1990s died jumping off one of the city’s lakes, because Sonali Bendre was once visiting town, and he couldn’t see her. Sonali was shocked to hear and could not believe that someone could go to this extent for an onscreen personality, “Yeh sach hai? [Is it true?]. How can someone.

..,” Bendre sighs.



Although the ’90s were a decade, defined by such Bollywood fan-culture, this is only among several crazy things she’s heard/experienced? ADVERTISEMENT She revealed, “There’d be fan mails. We wondered to test, if it was in actual blood. I’d be shattered, if it was.

Best to appreciate, and leave it at that. How can people place humans on such a pedestal, that they’ll fall from, anyway?” Sharing her thoughts on fan culture and obsession towards movie stars she said, "I couldn't understand that kind of obsession for somebody." Unlike today, back in the 90s, accessibility to stars was limited making fans do crazy things to get the attention of their favourite actors.

"I just feel that how can you put any human being on that kind of a pedestal? Because it's a human being and he or she is going to fall off that pedestal because they're human beings. So I could never put somebody up on a pedestal to that extent. So I never understood this kind of thing.

" Sonali was a teenager when she started out as a model, workin.

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