Mahesh Bhatt, has quite often come under the spotlight for speaking candidly about his personal life. In a few incidents he was captured talking about his parents’ religions, telling about his father’s Gujarati Brahim identity and Mother’s Muslim identity.
In an interview that dates back to 1988, he recounted how his mother was ‘little embarrassed when he flaunted his Muslim roots.’ Bhutt further revealed that she was a little “worried” when he gave his daughters Muslim names. He was also found in an old interview that he had “the best of both worlds,” highlighting his cordial relationship with his parents.
“My mother was a Shia Muslim, while my father was a janoi-clad man. He never pretended to be secular. What’s very interesting, both (father and mother) retained their individual faiths. They were madly in love but neither indulged in the farce of wanting to do things the other way.” he stated
My mother always wore this big tika, and saree – she liked that kind of thing. But, at the same time, I could see that there was something she was hiding. She felt that her minority status would perhaps interfere with our day-to-day lives. She was a little embarrassed when I flaunted my Muslim roots… when I came to know about it. Yes, she was a little embarrassed about it. She was worried about me during the communal riots in 1992. She was worried when we named my little girls — because my second wife (Soni Razdan) liked those names – Shaheen and Alia. Both are Muslim names. Everybody was worried in 1992. What was going to happen?” he added as reported by glamsham since 1999.
Mahesh Bhatt is a prominent Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Hindi cinema. He gained fame in the 1980s and 1990s for directing emotionally intense and often controversial films that dealt with complex human relationships and social issues.
