Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt recently opened up about his troubled relationship with his ex-wife Aditi Bhatt and his affairs with actresses Sushmita Sen and Ameesha Patel. He also revealed that his 2006 directorial Ankahee, starring Urmila Matondkar, was a “semi-fictionalised” version of his relationship with the Aarya actor while he was married.
In a conversation with Siddharth Kanan, when the filmmaker was asked if Ankahee is based on his life, he said, “Yes, quite a bit. I’d say semi- fictionalised… I think my situation with Sushmita and my wife.”
He added, “It was not incident based, ki aapki zindagi mein aisa hua tha kya (if something like this happened in your life), no, it didn’t happen like that. Sometimes you take the emotion and fictionalise it. So it was a real emotion in a fictionalised story.”
When asked if his wife was not upset with him for making a film on the subject, Vikram said, “If I have blamed anyone then it was me, I neither blamed Sushmita’s character, nor my ex-wife. Then why would anyone be upset? I have the right to beat myself up.”
He, however, confessed that he is not sure if Sushmita was upset with him or not. “I don’t know, I never asked her. See, I have a right over my life but not on anybody else’s life. So even when I write on (Twitter) threads, I write what’s my truth, what has happened with me.”
When asked if his relationships have taken a toll on him, whether it was with Sushmita and his ex-wife or Gadar 2 actress Ameesha Patel, Vikram said, “That pain itself has taught me a lot. Today where I am, it is because of that pain. I think my spiritual journey wouldn’t have been the same had I not gone through those events. I believe that we all choose our lessons before we are born and I think I chose these. I say this with all honesty that you have to own every part of your life. Everything that has happened is my decision, I let it happen. Nothing that has happened in my life has happened without my permission.”
The director was in relationships with Sushmita Sen and Ameesha Patel in the early 2000s. However, it was apparently his relationship with Sushmita that ended his marriage with childhood sweetheart Aditi.
Vikram was then asked whether he regrets his relationship with Sushmita. “I don’t regret anything in my life, not one thing, not one mistake,” he said. He added, “I have made mistakes, a lot of mistakes, but I have learnt from them, maybe there’s a lot more learning left to do, but this is my sole journey.”
Vikram then also opened about how he made phone calls to both Sushmita and Ameesha to apologise to them. He said, “I made these phone calls very early on. That’s why I had gone to Bhatt sahab (Mahesh Bhatt) that was a part of the phone calls. But Sushmita, Ameesha… See, these are the relationships that were spoken about in the press but these are not the only relationships. I have more relationships, there were others as well who came into my life and nothing is incomplete in my mind today. I feel complete. That’s what I am saying, if you look at it as your sole journey then you don’t need a closure.”
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Vikram Bhatt confesses his affair with Sushmita Sen, its impact on his marriage inspired his film Ankahee: ‘I blamed myself’ – The Indian Express
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