Shabana Azmi CLAIMS Of Seeing Parveen Babi 'Go Mad', Reveals: 'She Went Screaming Out..'

Parveen Babi, a name that is always going to be engraved in golden letters in Hindi cinema. However, at the peak of her career, Parveen struggled with mental ailment. She accused Mr. Amitabh Bachchan of kidnapping her. The whispers of Parveen's deteriorating mental health was known by the entire industry, and slowly, she left the noisy glamourous world in her own cocoon. Recently, Shabana Azmi recalled an episode of seeing Parveen Babi go mad.

Shabana Azim recalled how Parveen Babi lost control over her during a film's shooting 

Parveen Babi's tale to being the top actress of her time wasn't an easy one. Despite achieving super stardom with people shouting her names at every event, be it party, or airport and whatnot, the actress struggled to come to terms with her mental health problems. There were even some who witnessed some of the horrific episode of Parveen Babi's mental health detoriating and one of them was Shabana Azmi. In an interview with Filmfare, Shabana recalled the time when she worked with Parveen and saw her behaviour change. 

Shabana Azmi revealed that they were shooting for Prakash Mehra's film, Jwalamukhi, and on the set, Parveen suddenly looked up at the chandelier and started screaming that it would fall on her. Not only this, Shabana revealed that even on the sets of their other film, Ashanti, Parveen started eating very little. Shabana Azmi said:

"I saw Parveen Babi going mad in front of my eyes. We were doing a Prakash Mehra film, Jwalamukhi, and we were on the set, and she suddenly looked to the chandelier and started screaming, ‘This chandelier is going to fall on me.’ Even on the sets of Ashanti, I saw that she was eating very little. She used to eat two grapes and say that I am bursting."

Shabana Azmi shared another incident of Parveen with Zeenat Aman. The veteran actress revealed that when Zeenat was getting her makeup done for a scene, Parveen stood behind her and looked at her in a strange way. Recalling the moment, Shabana shared that there were indications that showed something was not right with Parveen. 

When the interviewer asked Shabana Azmi if they ever discussed about Parveen's mental state with other actors, who would work with her, she denied. She stated that Parveen always talked about esoteric things, and books. Shabana also added that it looked as if Parveen was on a quest and she was struggling with something. She said:

"We never talked about this. She was always speaking about esoteric things, discussing books, and she was a big star, but she never played the star as such, but she was in quest of an intellect that didn’t really come easy to her, but she was struggling with something."

Parveen Babi's personal life

In the '80s, Kabir Bedi and Parveen Babi's relationship was most talked about topic. She was the first lady who healed Kabir's wounded heart after his marriage with Protima ended. However, their relationship was short-lived, and they parted ways. There were murmurs in the media that it was due to Kabir Bedi, Parveen Babi's mental health was deeply affected. After him, Parveen dated already married, Mahesh Bhatt, but he left her as her mental health took an extreme toll. In 2005, Parveen was found dead in her home at the age of 52. 

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