

He even invited her to the Facebook event to Naruto run into Area 51 to save them aliens. He tried to stay in touch with her over the next few years and tell her about his star-gazing, and how Koi Mil Gaya got his hopes up about extraterrestrial presence. The only other friend she ever made was that Sardar boy at summer camp. (For real this time, the servant didn’t mess up.) Her sexy Dadi was her constant companion, and now there’s a ‘chandan haar’ hanging on her photo. You know, because she claims she can see her mother’s ghost chilling in her room, telling her to spy on her father and her new mother because Tina can’t deal with the FOMO of her college BFFs hanging out without inviting her.Īnjali doesn’t have any friends. Once chirpy, determined and brimming with possibilities, she’s now sad, depressed and spends quite a few evenings on the shrink’s couch. Today, 21 years later, Anjali Khanna is 29 years old, and a maladjusted adult.

And when that happens, when you have to grow up in a dysfunctional family with skewered views about love, your adult life is pretty much damaged. You could say Anjali had to grow up a little too soon. And we all know how those two things can mess you up. Remember when we were eight and all we cared about was watching cartoons on TV? She was already watching late night show hosts (The Neelam Show, Yo) and thinking about her career. Eight-year-olds back then had beginner-level Hindi proficiency, so it is totally possible that her late mother Tina’s (R.I.P) final wishes were lost in translation. It has been 21 years since the fateful day when little Anjali Khanna turned eight, opened her ‘Maa Ki Chitthi’, and decided to play God with her daddy Rahul’s love life in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
