‘He never parted ways with my mom’
Pooja Bhatt is the eldest child of a blended family, where her father Mahesh Bhatt has two daughters — Shaheen Bhatt and Alia Bhatt — from his second marriage with Soni Razdan, after raising two kids — Pooja and Rahul Bhatt — from his first marriage with Kiran Bhatt. She’s maintained that she respects her father for walking out of his marriage with her mother when he felt that the relationship had run its course. “Would I rather have a father who acknowledges he’s human, that there’s been a shift in his affection, who moves out of the house to stand by the woman he’s met? Or would I prefer a father who stays under the same roof as my mother for society’s sake, has 200 affairs outside, but there’s an air of normalcy and conspiracy of silence maintained by everybody?,” asked Pooja in a recent interview. “Because they are mard, so they can do it. That never happened at my home. They both thought the relationship was over,” Pooja told Vickey Lalwani, recalling the …
