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Shabana Azmi says she saw Parveen Babi ‘going mad in front of my eyes’: ‘She was struggling, said the chandelier was going to fall on her’ | Bollywood News

Shabana Azmi says she saw Parveen Babi ‘going mad in front of my eyes’: ‘She was struggling, said the chandelier was going to fall on her’ | Bollywood News

Actor Shabana Azmi and Parveen Babi became popular in Bollywood around the same time and got to work with each other in films like Amar Akbar Anthony and Jwalamukhi. Parveen was a mainstream star and while she was starting to enjoy her stardom, she was also learning to deal with her mental health problems. At the time, the world around her wasn’t equipped to help her in the right way so many of her contemporaries, could not make sense of what she was going through. In a recent interview, Shabana recalled the time when she worked with Parveen and how she started observing some changes in her. In an appearance on Filmfare’s YouTube channel, Shabana 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 …