EXCLUSIVE: Pooja Bhatt on her family being targeted for nepotism: I would never wish this on somebody else

Pooja Bhatt, daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, is one of the most popular actors in Bollywood. She played her first leading role in her father’s film Daddy and later went on to star in many movies including Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, and Junoon among others. Pooja comes from a filmy background. The actress’ step-sister Alia Bhatt is one of the top actresses in Bollywood. During the lockdown, the Bhatt family faced a lot of nepotism allegations. Now, in an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble, Pooja Bhatt opened up about nepotism and her family being targeted because of it.

Pooja Bhatt said, “Well Mukesh Bhatt has made more money on Sadak 2 than he’s made on his last 20 movies and I can assure you that that’s all he cares about. I’m not saying we care about that but he’s a different kind of an animal and my father is a different person so that is not the point.”

She added, “The point is that yes for certain we get targeted but I’m saying is that I would never wish this on somebody else. We have the capacity to absorb it and I’m not going to say why me and why not you because then how am I different from the people who met out that anger or that kind of toxicity. Time is the greatest critic, it’s the healer. Time heals all wounds and time wounds all heals so it’s all good and eventually what you are resonates truth like water cannot be stopped.”

 

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Pooja admitted that it was a difficult time but ‘its those difficult times it’s when the world turns its back from you it’s when you realize who you are made of, it’s when you realize who your people really are and I think that our failures are humiliations when we’ve been targeted when we’ve been kind of, you know, unnecessarily kind of attacked. It’s that’s when you discover the invisible summer within you. It’s not good times that tell you what you’re about because some day the phone stops ringing and flowers stop coming. We’re going to have flops and we’re going to have failures, and we’re going to have attacks but it’s really about how you respond to things. So I’m not going to have a why me attitude. If you know who you are then you don’t say why me.’

On the other hand, Pooja Bhatt recently delivered a great performance in Chup: Revenge of the Artist. She shared screen space with Dulquer Salmaan, Shreya Dhanwanthary and Sunny Deol.

Check out the entire conversation here-

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