Top 10 Bollywood’s leading actresses gone missing

Top 10 Bollywood’s leading actresses gone missing

Bollywood is known as the land of dreams. People from various parts of the world come to India just to be a part of our entertainment industry. Every year we Bollywood sees many new faces, but only few amongst these make it to the top after passing through rough battles and struggles of tinsel town. Here, we list down Top 10 popular faces of Bollywood who wooed audiences’ in the past, but went missing without much of a trace.

 

Marta joined Bollywood at the age of 20. She got a smashing debut with Aashiq Awara opposite Saif Ali Khan. Both Mamta and Saif won the Best debut film awards that year. The actress was successfully climbing the ladder of success and worked with all the three Khans in Bollywood, Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir. But her bold shirtless cover image on a popular magazine brought her career down. She was last in the news for her relationship with Vicky Goswami a supplier of drugs who works for underworld.

One of the sex siren’s of Bollywood Kimi Katkar was a popular Bollywood actress during the mid 1980s to early1990s. She played some important roles but her career in Bollywood was short-lived. The actress is best remembered for her role as Jumma opposite Amitabh Bachchan. People loved her whether it was her role in Tarzan or Jumma in Hum. Katkar quit the Hindi film industry after her marriage to photographer and ad-filmmaker Shantanu Shorey.

Anu Agarwal rose to fame in Bollywood with her debut film Aashiqui. For Anu, being in the showbiz industry was not an agenda at all as she never dreamt of being a star but Mahesh Bhatt convinced her to do Aashiqui. However, the film offers started pouring in after the success of Aashqui. But things took a U-turn in her life when in 1999, she met with an accident that left her half-paralysed and down with a memory loss for some time. She even forgot who she was and how big a star she was back home in Bollywood.

Light-eyed beauty, Mandakini who created stir with her debut film ‘Ram 

 

Teri Ganga Maili’ in which she put up a bold act. The actress later acted in a few more successful films, like Dance Dance, with Mithun Chakraborty and Pyaar Karke Dekho with Govinda, but failed to recreate the success of her first film. But her career got spoiled all thanks to her alleged relationship with underworld Don, Dawood Ibrahim. 

 

Farah ruled Bollywood from the early 1980 to the 1990’s and successful in working with almost all top actors of her time. But her best films include Imaandaar, ‘Naseeb Apna Apna’, ‘Love 86’, ‘Baap Numbari Beta Dus Numbari’. And regardless of getting married to Dara Singh’s son Vindu Dara Singh a Bollywood family the actress stayed away from films and social circuit.

The actress had a dull start in Bollywood with films Vijay and mitti Aur Sona. But Sonam went on to become popular as the ‘Oye Oye’ girl of Bollywood. After Tridev, Sonam was a star on the rise and despite her husky voice her curvaceous body endeared the masses. Sonam married filmmaker Rajiv Rai and both fled the nation, after receiving extortion threats.

 

Sonu Walia, who was known for her resemblance to popular actress Parveen Babi and Zeenat Aman brought glamour quotient in many films. The actress was the next sex symbol of Bollywood. Sonu Walia is best remembered for her role in Rakesh Roshan's blockbuster Khoon Bhari Maang. But after some hit and miss roles in television serials the actress has gone missing.

The beautiful and talented Meenakshi was the youngest woman to be crowned Miss India at the age of 17. The actress proved her versatility with many blockbuster films like ‘Hero’, Shahenshah and even in the woman centric film, ‘Damini’. She gave a powerful performance in her last film ‘Ghatak’ which released in 1997.

 

Vivacious and beautiful, Ayesha Jhulka played some substantial roles with actors likes Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar. The actress proved her acting mettle in films like ‘Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander’, Khiladi, Masoom. The actress was last seen in films Socha Na Tha and 2006 released Aishwarya Rai starrer, Umrao Jaan as Khurshid, a courtesan. Ayesha is married to construction tycoon Sameer Vashi.

 

Known as Bollywood superstar’s girlfriend Somy Ali went on to act in nine films during the 1990s, most of them big-scale but forgettable duds like “Andolan,” “Yaar Gaddar,” “Anth” and “Aao Pyar Karen,” and opposite big stars such as Sanjay Dutt, Om Puri, Suneil Shetty and Saif Ali Khan. However, after her break-up with Salman returned to Florida and never returned back to India.