When it comes to Mahesh Bhatt, you believe the oddest rumours because the man is actually capable of anything. ANYTHING! Unabashed confessions, shocking revelations and a mind that thinks beyond social diktats, Mahesh Bhatt might admit that he has never had ‘any thought I can call my own, not one thought, not one word, not one experience…’ However, the gamut of knowledge that he possesses makes him a mind everyone aspires to know a little bit better!
It has been over a decade that he has made a film – “I pitched my films for my mother, once she died I stopped making them,” he says sharing how his proudest moment was when “My mother told me that I gave her the joy that no son could give her and made her proud….” That was when he made ARTH, the film that was inspired by his own affair with Parveen Babi. ARTH was the first of the many he dug up his life to script. This repeated seeking of inspiration from his own life does leave people uneasy but Mahesh Bhatt thrives on scandalising people and enjoys every shocked expression that trails behind him, everywhere he goes.
His nephew Emraan Hashmi might often be heard lamenting, without malice, that here’s a man who does help you but doesn’t miss a single chance to take all the credit that’s due, what’s more also demands gifts reminding you that you owe it to him… But he also adds that Mahesh Bhatt is a man you would like to have backing you up.
So amidst all these eccentricities what is it that makes Mahesh Bhatt a man we admire? It is undoubtedly his mind along with his eccentricities! Anyone who is within 20 metres of Mahesh Bhatt gets convinced that Bhatt’s advice, his ideas and he are the only truth and everyone else can remain the hypocrites that they are comfortable being… Isn’t that an achievement in itself? After all, these are things God-men are made up of and Pooja Bhatt and Alia Bhatt’s father gives his expert advice without any impetus!
