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Known for speaking his mind on cinema, the film industry, and his personal life, Mahesh Bhatt recently shared a traumatic incident from his childhood during an appearance on The Pooja Bhatt Show, hosted by his daughter Pooja Bhatt. The filmmaker revealed how four young men assaulted him while verbally attacking his mother, leaving a lasting scar on his psyche.

When Mahesh Bhatt fell in love with actor Soni Razdan in the 1980s, he was already married to Kiran Bhatt and a father to two children, Pooja and Rahul. It was a turbulent time, yet Pooja’s maturity and compassion at a very young age stood out. On her podcast, The Pooja Bhatt Show, the filmmaker recently broke down as he revisited that chapter and recalled how his daughter handled the truth about his second marriage.

There was a time when Rajesh Khanna was not just a star but a national obsession. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he reigned with a hysteria never witnessed before in Hindi cinema. But like all meteoric rises, his too came with an inevitable fall. Mahesh Bhatt recently revealed how he witnessed both shades of the legend, the untouchable superstar and the man coming to terms with fading glory.

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, facing early career struggles, was advised by a tantrik to feed human flesh to a potential investor. He and a friend tricked a zamindar in Gaya by concealing the supposed flesh in a paan. Despite this bizarre attempt to secure funding, they ultimately failed to obtain the film financing.