Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt recently became emotional while speaking with his elder daughter, Pooja Bhatt, on her podcast, The Pooja Bhatt Show. During the conversation, Mahesh recalled a moment when he felt his daughter had judged him. An emotional Mahesh told Pooja that he can never get that face out of his mind and said, “The innocence, the largeness of a child…” Pooja consoled him and said, “I couldn’t judge you because somewhere I feel a lot of children use this, being from a broken home. I remember one time in my life, you told me not to get involved with a particular person, and I threw this line at you, ‘Well, you shouldn’t have left us in that case.’ You were like, really? And I paused, thinking that it’s a very manipulative thing to do.” Also Read: Mahesh Bhatt recalls being assaulted as a kid by 4 boys who tried to ‘pull down my pants’: ‘They let me go after I confessed my father doesn’t live with us’ Pooja Bhatt also recounted an incident in which her mother, Kiran Bhatt, once locked Mahesh Bhatt out on the balcony after he came home drunk. Elaborating on that incident, she shared, “The time when we were in Silversands, you came back home drunk and fumbling one night, and you went into the balcony. That must have been a recurring nightmare for my mother, so she had gotten up and locked you in there with the ocean roaring outside. Then you were knocking, saying, ‘Let me in, Kiran, Pooja,‘ I could hear your voice echoing with the ocean roaring behind you. It’s still stuck in my head.” Pooja added, “I tried to get up and open the door, and she told me, ‘You cannot go and open the door, this is not good, he drinks every night, it’s not good for him. He has to learn.’ I said, ‘What if he falls over?’ and she said, ‘You are always on your father’s side.’ I think the truth is that I came on your side and never left it ever after that, even though I was traumatized when I had a fight with her and left home. You called me and shouted at me and said that she would always be the first choice for you. I was heartbroken. I went back home with my six plastic bags and all my clothes in them. That time was the first time I saw you as a human being.” “And then when I saw you sitting at the edge of my bed, telling me about a woman you met, Soni, and the fact that you would be marrying her and moving out. I was just privileged to be treated as an equal, where you told me this even before you told my mother. I could have made it all about me and thrown a tantrum. I feel it’s very important for children to also give their parents a break and look at them as human beings,” the Sadak actor concluded.
