It is not new to see filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt embroiled in a controversy, the man has been a crowned king of troubles with his past personal and professional equations. Right from his marriage with Kiran Bhatt (earlier known as Lorrain Bright), hitting the rocks due to his extra-marital affair with actress Parveen Babi to his many reported affairs, his controversial statements about Bollywood and his fiery nature has made Mahesh Bhatt infamous for controversies. Take a look at his vibrant yet controversial life…
With all of Mahesh Bhatt’s reported philandering ways, it has been established that Bhatt has never been a one-woman man. In fact, he is said to have had many affairs in his life, right from his first marriage with Kiran Bhatt (Pooja and Rahul Bhatt’s mother), Mahesh was in the news for his extra-marital affair with actress Parveen Babi. And while Bhatt moved in with his lady love, their love story had a tragic ending with Parveen succumbing to paranoid schizophrenia. After this rough patch, followed by his divorce with Kiran, Bhatt married Soni Razdan (Alia and Shaheen Bhatt’s mother), however, news about the filmmaker’s affair kept surfacing.
While in the ’80s Mahesh Bhatt came in the bad light for his lip-lock with daughter Pooja Bhatt on a magazine cover, his outlandish statement that if Pooja wasn’t his daughter, he would have loved to marry her, raised many eyebrows. And with times, Mahesh was linked with a couple of names, in fact, his video of touching late actress Jiah Khan inappropriately had once surfaced online taking the internet by storm.