Pooja Bhatt Biography: The new season of reality show Bigg Boss OTT is back again with new faces, new host, more drama, fun and romance. Superstar Salman Khan also made his digital debut as the host of the second season of the reality show Bigg Boss OTT.
Several social media personalities, actors and influencers participate in this reality show to make a comeback on OTT and television. The first season of this show was hosted by Karan Johar, which aired in 2021. It is also said that only those whose career is almost over come in Bigg Boss.
This season of Bigg Boss OTT has 13 contestants participating, some of them are newbies while others are giving a new shape to their career by participating in Bigg Boss OTT. This season’s contestants also include actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ex-wife Alia, actress Jia Shankar, Chhoti Bahu fame Avinash Sachdev, Lebanese actor Jad Hadid and social media influencers like Abhishek Malhan, Manisha Rani, among many others.
Much to the surprise of the audience this season, the entry was filmmaker and actress Pooja Bhatt. Pooja Bhatt is the daughter of famous filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. Although many of us know about him, but some people of the new generation are not familiar with him. Pooja Bhatt has had a very successful acting career and has made headlines at times, but not for good reasons at all.
Pooja Bhatt Biography
Who is Pooja Bhatt?
Pooja Bhatt is an Indian film director, model, actress, voice-over artist and film producer. She is the first child of the Bhatt family and the elder daughter of Indian film director and producer Mahesh Bhatt.
In 1989, Pooja Bhatt played her first leading role in Mahesh Bhatt’s film Daddy. He also received the Lux New Face of the Year Award for Best Debut for this film. In this film, she made quite an impression as a young girl. After this Pooja Bhatt started modeling and her first television advertisement was for Pearce soap.
In the year 1991, when she acted in the film “Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi” with Aamir Khan, she became a well-known face of the film industry.
Pooja Bhatt Family and Early Life
Pooja Bhatt was born on 24 February 1972 to Kiran Bhatt (Loraine Bright) and Mahesh Bhatt. She did her schooling from AF Petit Girls High School in Mumbai. Pooja’s father Mahesh Bhatt is half Gujarati and half Muslim while her mother is of an English, Scottish, Armenian and Burmese ancestry.
His mother’s real name is Lorraine Bright, who changed her name to Kiran Bhatt after marrying Mahesh Bhatt. Rahul Bhatt is her biological brother who is an actor and fitness trainer.
Let us know, what is Pooja Bhatt’s connection with famous actress Alia Bhatt. Mahesh Bhatt married British actress and film director Soni Razdan after divorcing Pooja’s mother. Pooja Bhatt is the step daughter of Soni Razdan. Alia Bhatt and Shaheen Bhatt are half-sisters of Pooja and daughters of Soni Razdan and Mahesh Bhatt. Hitarth Bhatt and Emraan Hashmi are cousins of Pooja. The mother of famous film director Mohit Suri is the real sister of Mahesh Bhatt.
Pooja Bhatt’s acting career
At the age of 17, Pooja Bhatt started her acting career with the film ‘Daddy’ which was directed by her father Mahesh Bhatt. In the film, she played the role of a troubled teenager who is separated from her alcoholic father, played by actor Anupam Kher. His biggest solo success and big screen debut came with the 1991 blockbuster musical Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi, a Hindi remake of the Academy Award-winning film It Happened One Night.
Her most famous films of the 1990s include Sadak, in which she starred opposite Sanjay Dutt. She worked with Rahul Roy in Junoon, Jaanam and Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee. She worked with Atul Agnihotri in Sir and Gunahgaar, with Mithun Chakraborty in Tadipar and Naraz, with Rishi Kapoor in Hum Botho, with Sunny Deol in Bodyguard, with Shah Rukh Khan in Chahat Aur Tamanna, Ajay Worked with Devgan in the super-hit and multi-starrer films Border and Zakhm.
After achieving success as an actress, she also tried her luck in film direction and film production. His last film as a director was the 2001 English-language release Everybody Says I’m Fine!. He focused on film production and direction from 2003 to 2012. He made his directorial debut with the 2004 film “Paap” starring John Abraham and Udita Goswami. He has since directed four other films, including Jism 2, Holiday, Dhoka and Kajrare.
Pooja Bhatt returned to acting in 2020 with the release of Sadak 2, the sequel to the 1991 blockbuster film Sadak. Mahesh Bhatt returned as a director after 20 years with the film Sadak 2. Pooja Bhatt also made her web series acting debut in the year 2021 with the Netflix series Bombay Begums, which also featured Plabita Borthakur, Amrita Subhash, Shahana Goswami, Adhya Anand and Rahul Bose in key roles.
Relationship Status of Pooja Bhatt
Pooja Bhatt’s name was previously linked with several famous Indian actors, including Aamir Khan, Sohail Khan, Fardeen Khan, Bobby Deol, Sunil Darshan, Deepak Malhotra and Aditya Pancholi. In 1995, Pooja also disclosed her relationship with Sohail Khan and said that they were planning to get married.
Later, there were speculations that she got engaged to Indian actor Ranvir Shorey, with whom she had a live-in relationship. The couple eventually split due to an abusive relationship.
In 2003, she married her long-time partner, VJ and businessman Munish Makhija. The couple filed for divorce after almost 11 years of their marriage. Currently Pooja Bhatt is single and there is no news of her dating anyone.
Controversies related to Pooja Bhatt
Pooja Bhatt has been associated with many controversies. Let us now know in detail about the controversy related to him. Pooja Bhatt was associated with many controversies in her film career, but her most famous controversy was with her father Mahesh Bhatt. Her picture with her father was published in a magazine, which was severely criticized at the time. In the front picture of the magazine, both of them were seen lip-kissing.
A few days after the lip kiss photo controversy, Mahesh Bhatt made a very scandalous statement that if Pooja Bhatt was not his daughter, he would have liked to marry her, due to which a huge controversy was created at that time.
Pooja Bhatt once came into controversy and headlines when she posed nude for a fashion magazine at the age of 24 with only paint on her body. At that time his photo shoot created a lot of uproar among the public and the media.
Pooja Bhatt’s Performance in Bigg Boss OTT Season 2
Pooja Bhatt has been a controversial and talked about contestant in the OTT season 2 of Bigg Boss. Pooja Bhatt has also played the card of seniority in the show as most of the contestants of the show are half of Pooja Bhatt’s age. In one episode, Pooja Bhatt threw mud at another contestant named Fukra Insan. In another episode, Pooja Bhatt was seen playing dirty to win a task.
In the 13th episode of the show, there was a deep discussion between Pooja Bhatt and another contestant named Abhishek Malhan. Overall, Pooja Bhatt has been involved in many memorable moments in the show and her performance has been a talking point among the audience.
