{"id":701545,"date":"2026-05-29T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701545\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:39:09","slug":"pooja-bhatt-opens-up-on-mahesh-bhatt-converting-to-islam-to-marry-soni-razdan-hed-never-part-ways-with-my-mother-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701545\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooja Bhatt opens up on Mahesh Bhatt converting to Islam to marry Soni Razdan: ‘He\u2019d never part ways with my mother’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pooja Pooja Bhatt<\/a> has often spoken candidly about her unconventional family dynamics and the bond she shares with every member of her blended family. As the eldest daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt<\/a> and Kiran Bhatt, Pooja grew up alongside brother Rahul Bhatt<\/a> before Mahesh later married actor Soni Razdan, with whom he has daughters Shaheen Bhatt and Alia Bhatt.Pooja reflected on her father\u2019s decision to leave his marriage with her mother once he realised the relationship had changed. She explained that she respects his honesty rather than living a double life for appearances.\u201cWould I rather have a father who acknowledges he\u2019s human, that there\u2019s been a shift in his affection, who moves out of the house to stand by the woman he\u2019s met? Or would I prefer a father who stays under the same roof as my mother for society\u2019s sake, has 200 affairs outside, but there\u2019s an air of normalcy and conspiracy of silence maintained by everybody?\u201d asked Pooja during a chat with Vickey Lalwani.Speaking about the phase when Mahesh Bhatt fell in love with late actor Parveen Babi during the late 1970s, Pooja said, \u201cBecause they are mard, so they can do it. That never happened at my home. They both thought the relationship was over.\u201d She also recalled how her parents briefly tried to reconcile after \u201cthe tragedy played out with Parveen\u201d, referring to the actor\u2019s struggles with mental health, but eventually realised the marriage could not be revived.Pooja also opened up about a memorable conversation she once shared with Soni Razdan during the filming of Love Affair, a project inspired by the 1959 Nanavati murder case. Though the film was never completed, Pooja remembered Soni confessing under the stars in Ooty that she carried guilt over her relationship with Mahesh Bhatt.\u201cSo, I told her from my heart, \u2018Soni, you couldn\u2019t have broken up a relationship that was together. There\u2019s no space for anybody in a relationship that\u2019s solid. Something was lacking, so somebody else could come and find that space,’\u201d recalled Pooja.Reflecting on how relationships evolve over time, she added, \u201cWhen I look at my parents today, the nature of love has changed. But they\u2019re one unit. When people ask me, \u2018What about love?\u2019, so I say if love can be like that, when two people can be there for each other morally through thick and thin\u2026 Even if the world is on one side, and you\u2019re wrong but you can still stand by my side nonetheless.\u201dPooja also maintained that she does not believe there are \u201cvillains\u201d in her family\u2019s story. \u201cShe forgave him years ago otherwise they wouldn\u2019t have reached where they are. Who\u2019s the villain? Is Soni the villain? Is Parveen Babi the villain? Is Mahesh Bhatt the villain? Is Kiran the villain, or Lorraine Bright rather?\u201d she said, referring to her mother\u2019s maiden name, before adding, \u201cIs life the villain? Or circumstances? Is being wretchedly human the villain?\u201dRecalling the early days of Mahesh Bhatt\u2019s relationship with Soni Razdan, Pooja shared that Soni was already a regular presence at their home while working on Saaransh in 1984. She revealed that her father eventually decided to openly acknowledge the relationship instead of hiding it.\u201cWhen the relationship bloomed, my father decided to give it a name, and not keep it hidden. That\u2019s when one night, he woke me up and told me he\u2019s involved with Soni and he\u2019d be setting up a new home with her, and that shouldn\u2019t make me feel abandoned as a child because he\u2019d never abandon me,\u201d said Pooja.She also addressed Mahesh Bhatt\u2019s decision to convert to Islam before marrying Soni in 1986, which allowed him to avoid divorcing Kiran Bhatt. \u201cHe\u2019d never part ways with my mother. I know one thing about my father that once he holds your hands, whoever you are, he doesn\u2019t let go. That\u2019s applicable to the women in his life, people he\u2019s worked with, and people whom he\u2019s groomed and launched. He\u2019s there. He\u2019s reliable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, Pooja admitted that the separation deeply affected her mother. \u201cRelationships don\u2019t end well. I did see my mother\u2019s pain that it\u2019s happening again,\u201d she confessed. However, she praised Kiran Bhatt for maintaining dignity throughout the situation and never allowing the children to be caught in the middle.\u201cThey\u2019ve always maintained a decorum and grace with each other. They never pitted the children against each other. In fact, there have been times I\u2019ve fought my mother and my father has taken her side. He\u2019s told me, \u2018Listen, please don\u2019t ever think where my priorities lie\u2019 (laughs). So, they\u2019ve always been very solid when it came to me. My father moved out, but that\u2019s truly a matter of geography,\u201d she shared.Pooja also revealed that her relationship with Soni Razdan has grown much stronger over the years and that she shares a close bond with sisters Shaheen and Alia Bhatt, whom she considers her extended family.\u201cWhen Shaheen was born, the first person my father called was my mother. And I\u2019ll never forget the moment when my mother came to me and said, \u2018Hey, you have a sister now.\u2019 So, it just naturally became what\u2019s become now,\u201d Pooja concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pooja Bhatt has often spoken candidly about her unconventional family dynamics and the bond she shares with every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10248,158517,49,48,255351,75,254464,26734,337,255349,107126,16886,255350,23155],"class_list":["post-701545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alia-bhatt","tag-blended-family","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conversion-to-islam","tag-entertainment","tag-kiran-bhatt","tag-mahesh-bhatt","tag-movies","tag-murder-case","tag-parveen-babi","tag-pooja-bhatt","tag-rahul-bhatt","tag-soni-razdan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}