In a recent chat with Sonali Bendre for Mid-Day's The Bombay Film Story, host Mayank Shekhar asked the actress if she was aware of a fan's death in Bhopal? A guy in the 1990s died jumping off one of the city’s lakes, because Sonali Bendre was once visiting town, and he couldn’t see her. Sonali was shocked to hear and could not believe that someone could go to this extent for an onscreen personality,

“Yeh sach hai? [Is it true?]. How can someone…,” Bendre sighs. Although the ’90s were a decade, defined by such Bollywood fan-culture, this is only among several crazy things she’s heard/experienced?