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When she finally tied the knot, actress and film-maker Pooja Bhatt did it with none of the fanfare that surrounded her staged wedding in father Mahesh Bhatt’s Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin.
Pooja wed hotelier and Channel V’s former veejay Munish Makhija at a temple in Goa on Saturday. Her mother was present but father Mahesh Bhatt begged off.
‘‘I have always supported her. But I didn’t attend the function because I feel uncomfortable with anything related to religion,’’ Bhatt said. He added that he was the first person Pooja consulted through an SMS when Makhija proposed.
Makhija, famous as Channel V’s Udham Singh armed with a lathi buffalo and his deadpan jokes, now runs a restaurant in Goa and dabbles in music.
The two are said to have begun their four-month courtship on the sets of Pooja’s directorial debut Paap, starring John Abraham and Udita Goswami, being shot in Sikkim.
