Mahesh Bhatt isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade and makes no bones about expressing his unabashed opinion, even if they seem to rub some people the wrong way. However, when it comes to clapping back at trolls, who comment negatively about him and his family, the director has remained silent, a reflection of his indifference towards people who talk ill about him on the internet and the negativity on social media at large. Speaking about this silence, he stressed that he chooses not to react because he is unfazed by ‘manufactured narrative’. “There is a line by Lord Krishna, ‘Inaction is action.’ When I chose not to act, that was action. So, the trolls out there or my adversaries knew that I came from strength, did not come from cowardice. I was not a petrified man. I just chose not to be sucked into a manufactured narrative,” he told Zoom TV.
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While the producer-director who has helmed films like Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain, Arth, Saaransh, Naam, Daddy, Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin, Hum Hain Raahi Pyar Ke, and Zakhm, is a caring, doting father to his children Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Bhatt, Shaheen Bhatt and Alia Bhatt, he doesn’t necessarily feel the need to “protect” his children. “I have nothing to protect. What is there to protect? My children will take care of themselves like I took care of myself. And if there is a need, I am a firewall. You have to get to me first,” said Mahesh, who married to actor Soni Razdan, stressing that his “silence is out of choice” as he doesn’t believe in how social media works. “It is not some kind of fear of consequences. The virtual world seems to become more valuable than the real world. I don’t subscribe to that. I think the real relationship is to cry openly in front of the camera, and that is living life there at the arena,” he urged.
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Mahesh, during the promotion of Bloody Ishq, starring Avika Gor, spoke about not returning to direction after the failure of Sadak 2, featuring Alia, Aditya Roy Kapur and Sanjay Dutt in leading roles. He told Indianexpress.com, “This is a new age, a new vibrant dawn. This the most gratifying phase of my life.” He stressed that now is open to the idea of mentoring filmmakers to make their art, rather than create one himself. He called himself an ‘extinct volcano.’ “I don’t have the thirst to leave my footprints on the sands of time, which is paramount in the entertainment world. Those who make it, have an insatiable thirst to leave their footprints on the sands of time. Vikram (Bhatt) has it, Avika (Gor) has it, I am outdated, a has-been,” the filmmaker said.
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