Anu Aggarwal's popularity touched new peaks after her debut film, Aashiqui, became a grand success. Recently, during an exclusive interview with Pinkvilla, the former actress opened up about the stardom she achieved after the film and how it led to safety concerns.

Aggarwal shared that fans would fly from different countries to see her building and the craze was just like it is for Shah Rukh Khan now.

The Aashiqui actress, who used to live alone in Mumbai at that time, shared that it was scary for her. "I had fans, like, you know, standing under my building. Luckily, the building I was in was an MLA/MP building, so we had police protection. We had like guards coming with guns, standing with guns, eight to ten of them. They would not let people enter the gate. But it was madness," she said.

"People were flying from different countries to come and just see my building; you know how it is with Shah Rukh Khan today," said Aggarwal, who left the industry a few years after her success, adding while sharing that the superstar is her neighbor. "I see that this is how it used to happen, and I ran away from it," she laughingly concluded.

Anu Aggarwal also revealed that Bollywood was ruled by people like Dawood Ibrahim at that time and there were under-the-table deals. "All the money that was coming into the film industry, it came from the underworld," she said.