Happy Birthday Mahesh Bhatt: Unapologetic Storyteller Who Was Way Ahead Of His Time
It was on September 20, 1948, that Mahesh Bhatt was born to a single Muslim mom Shirin Mohammad Ali.
Fifty years later, it impressed Bhatt to make ‘Zakhm’ — a narrative of an illegitimate baby rising up within the backdrop of communal tensions.
It was simply considered one of a number of private miseries, shortfalls and problems that he confronted in his life which Bhatt expressed by means of his movies.
He was at all times blunt about what life threw at him, and by no means made apologies or expressed remorse.
In 1982, Bhatt made ‘Arth’ starring Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi and Kulbhushan Kharbanda which took the Mumbai movie business by storm with an unconventional narrative coping with the problems of male chauvinism and ladies’s independence.
As Bhatt remembers, ‘Arth’ was a mirrored image of his extramarital affair with Parveen Babi when his first marriage with Kiran Bhatt was breaking up. The voids in life, Bhatt believed, could possibly be crammed with the magical realism of cinema. He was an exception in some ways, as few treaded the trail he selected for himself.
Believed to be one of the distinguished godfathers of Bollywood throughout the Nineties, when he helped launch the profession of many outsiders like Anupam Kher in ‘Saaransh’, Atul Agnihotri in ‘Sir’, Manoj Bajpayee in ‘Dastak’, Bipasha Basu in ‘Raaz’ and plenty of extra.
The star director’s picture noticed a pointy decline post-Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise in June 2020, with netizens and critics accusing him of being nepotistic to star children and inspiring the drug enterprise in Bollywood.
The person who created the breezy romance in movies like ‘Aashiqui’ (1990) was manner forward of his time. However many analysts imagine that his self-obsession snatched the magic wand of the auteur.
The person whose reflection was seen in lots of his movies, certainly wants a biography to apprise at present’s technology of the Mahesh Bhatt period.
