Mahesh Bhatt says he was stigmatised as ‘illegitimate child’: ‘When my father came to our house, I felt an outsider had come’

Mahesh Bhatt discussed the harsh realities of his childhood and how his father never accepted him and his mother. He said vicious men interrogated him about his father.

Mahesh Bhatt appeared on the show The Invincibles. (Photo: Shaheen Bhatt/Instagram)

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Veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who is known for speaking his mind, has opened up about his childhood and how he was stigmatized as an ‘illegitimate child’ because of the circumstances. In an new episode of The Invincibles, Bhatt revealed how his mother had to conceal her identity and had to live like a Hindu, despite being a Muslim.

The director, who was born out of wedlock to a Muslim mother and a Hindu father, spoke about the times when he was stigmatised as an ‘illegitimate child’. He said, “I was born in 1948, it was post-independent India and my mother was a Shia Muslim, but we lived in Shivaji Park where majority of the people were Hindus and she concealed her identity and wore a saree, adorned a tika.”

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Bhatt said that their house was called the ‘illegitimate house’ and only the leftovers came to them. Opening about his father, a filmmaker who lived with his other family in Andheri, Bhatt said, “When he came to our house, I felt as if an outsider has come. I would have encounters with vicious men who would put me in a corner and ask me about my father.”

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He also spoke that he had to face such attacks till he lied about his birth and his father. Once he embraced it and started saying the truth that his father doesn’t live with me, bullies left him alone. He also recounted the story where he was called a ‘bast*rd’ in a news article. “The journalist said ‘you’re a…’ and left it hanging. I said you mean a ‘bast*rd’ and she had a smile on her face, she had got her headline”.

Talking about his first income at the age of 15 or 16-years-old, which was Rs 53, Mahesh said, “I remember bringing it to my mother and I walked to her with pride and I said ‘money.’ She looked at it and she kept it in her blouse and said ‘isko mai apne kaleje ke paas rakhungi.’ (I will keep it close to my heart)

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