From Mahesh Bhatt's extra-marital affair to feud with Kangana Ranaut - Filmmaker's top 5 controversies!

Mahesh Bhatt's first wife was Lorraine Bright who he met when he was a teenager. As per reports, Lorraine adopted the name Kiran Bhatt after marrying Mahesh. The couple had a daughter when they were only 21. However, their love story was strained after Mahesh began to fancy late film actress Parveen Babi. 

 

In an old interview, speaking about his relationship with Parveen, he told Filmfare, "My relationship with Parveen began around 1977. She had returned to India from Italy (after she broke up with Kabir Bedi subsequent to his becoming a sensation in Italy with the TV show Sandokan). She was a top star and was filming for Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) and Kala Pathar (1979) those days, while I was a flop filmmaker. I left my wife Lorraine Bright and my daughter Pooja, who was a kid then, to live in with Parveen."

 

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Director Mahesh Bhatt and his daughter Pooja were heavily criticised for kissing on the cover of Stardust magazine in the 1980s. The controversial pictures led to people speculating of an unconventional relationship between director Mahesh Bhatt and his daughter Pooja.

 

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Last year, when Mahesh Bhatt and Rhea Chakraborty got embroiled in the late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, an unseen video emerged of the director. 

 

The video featured late actress Jiah Khan and Mahesh Bhatt sitting closely with their hands intertwined. In the video, shared by a fan account, the two can be seen talking and smiling. After the video surfaced, fans criticised Bhatt for his closeness with Jiah as people believed her to be 16 years old in the video. 

 

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After Rhea Chakraborty and Mahesh Bhatt's WhatsApp chats were leaked during the investigation in late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, many speculated a romantic bond between them. 

 

She had clarified these rumours to Aaj Tak in an interview, she said, "This conversation was misconstrued, I was made into his girlfriend when he has a daughter my age." People also questioned their bond after Rhea had shared a few of the duo's pictures on Instagram.

 

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Last year, after Mahesh Bhatt was dragged into the Sushant Singh Rajput death investigation, Kangana Ranaut had alleged that the director had once hurled chappals at the actress. She claimed that he called her 'mad' and insulted her.

 

She told Republic TV in an interview, "Well, I am grateful, but that does not give them the right to call me mad and psychotic and throw chappals at me. Mahesh Bhatt threw a chappal at me."

 

As per her statement, the incident had allegedly taken place during the trial of their film 'Woh Lamhe'. She claimed that the director did not allow her to attend the screening of her own film.

 

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