When Mahesh Bhatt was so drunk that he forgot his own address, Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan dropped him home

Mahesh and Salim first worked together in the 1986 film Naam. This was Salim Khan’s first big hit after his separation from longtime writing partner Javed Akhtar. The film starred Sanjay Dutt and Kumar Gaurav in lead roles.

Arbaaz then applauded how Mahesh quit drinking a few years later. Mahesh shared the “miracle” of his daughter Shaheen’s birth led him to quit drinking altogether. “My first baby from Soni was born, Shaheen. And when I came to the hospital and they gave me the baby to hold. I was holding Shaheen in my arms and I went to kiss her and I got this feeling that… as if she moved away. She couldn’t bear the stench, the fumes of alcohol. She could not have done that, she was a baby but this is what I hallucinated, I projected, that did it. I said I can’t deal with this rejection,” he recalled. Bhatt concluded, “Since that day and now, I have not touched a drop of alcohol. 36 years, not one drop.”