Pooja Bhatt and her father Mahesh Bhatt landed into a major controversy after they kissed on the lips for a magazine cover in 1990. The two faced immense backlash for that cover as people thought it was wrong of an adult daughter to kiss her father on the lips. Now, after so many years, Pooja Bhatt has reacted to the backlash she and her father faced and it proves that she has moved on from this controversy and so should everyone else.
In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Pooja Bhatt talked about the magazine cover where she and her father Mahesh Bhatt kissed on the lips. Addressing the stir it caused, Pooja said that the moment between her and Mahesh was “absolutely innocent”. She also said that she did not regret the shot as it was ‘very simple’ and the drama it caused was quite unfortunate.
Pooja Bhatt also recalled something that Shah Rukh Khan told her which was about how innocently kids ask their parents for a kiss and how that magazine cover kiss means something along the same lines for her. Pooja also talked about the negative reactions to it and said people will perceive that kiss however they please. Elaborating more, the Bigg Boss OTT 2 star went on to say that people who want to see a father-daughter relationship in a different light, surely will.
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Mahesh Bhatt appeared on Bigg Boss OTT 2 to support Pooja Bhatt on the reality show but his inappropriate behaviour with Manisha Rani also sparked a controversy. While greeting her, he asked her to stare into his eyes and that they should converse with each other through the eyes. People thought he crossed a line with Manisha and called him out for it as well.
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