In the late 70s and 80s, she became a household name in the Hindi film industry with films like Amar Akbar Anthony, Namak Halal, Shaan, Kala Pathar, Kranti and The Burning Train to her name.

In the film Razia Sultan, she kissed her co-star Hema Malini. It also featured the late icon Dharmendra.

She was posthumously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Unfortunately, her mental health condition went largely unrecognised during her lifetime.

At the centre of the discussion was her love life. The actress, although unmarried, had a string of failed relationships with Kiran Bedi and Danny Denzongpa. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was also one of them.

Do you know Parveen Babi once ran after Mahesh Bhatt in the streets naked? The Aashiqui director shared the lesser-known anecdote in an old interview.

Mahesh Bhatt revealed that once he was trying to reassure Parveen since she was afraid that someone was following her with the intention to kill. The actress, however, refused to listen and went to the bathroom.

The filmmaker lost his cool and walked out of the house. That’s when Parveen Babi came running after him without wearing any clothes.

“Seeing this, I immediately took her inside the house,” shared Mahesh Bhatt. This year, in an interview with BBC Hindi, the filmmaker admitted that he watched Parveen Babi “go through her collapse.”

Before Mahesh Bhatt, Parveen Babi was in a relationship with actor Kabir Bedi. They separated in the mid-1970s.

During an interview, Kabir Bedi’s daughter Pooja had said that Praveen Babi used to eat eggs.

“Suddenly, she said, ‘I am sorry that I can’t offer you food because I only eat eggs.’ I asked her why she ate only eggs, and she replied, ‘This is the one thing they can’t tamper with.’ I asked her, ‘Who?’ She said, ‘The Secret Service, or the FBI,” Pooja said in a podcast.