Overview
- Pooja Bhatt gave a long interview that was widely published on Thursday, May 28, 2026, in which she revisited the family’s past and offered personal recollections about the breakup and later reconciliation.
- She says Soni Razdan told her in a private conversation that she had long felt guilty about the role her relationship with Mahesh Bhatt played in ending his first marriage.
- Pooja recalled that Mahesh told her directly about meeting Soni before anyone else and that he informed her he would be moving out rather than letting her learn the news from the press.
- Pooja repeated that Mahesh converted to Islam before marrying Soni in 1986 as a way to remarry without formally divorcing Kiran Bhatt and that the family thereafter maintained decorum and ongoing support between members.
- The accounts locate the relationship’s origin on the 1984 Saaransh set and describe how private honesty and later coexistence shaped a blended family in which Pooja now describes Soni, Alia and Shaheen as close and mutually supportive.