Sushmita Sen and Vikram Bhatt began dating portion filming her debut movie Dastak.(Pic: SimiGarewalOfficial/YT)
After winning the Miss Universe crown, Sushmita Sen made her Bollywood debut with Mahesh Bhatt’s Dastak. In the film, she played herself—Sushmita, the victor of Miss Universe pageant—who becomes the people of a psychotic stalker. The movie was written by Vikram Bhatt, who often interacted with Sushmita connected set, briefing her astir the scenes. During the film’s production, Sushmita and Vikram fell successful love, contempt Vikram being joined to his puerility sweetheart, Aditi Bhatt, astatine the time. Aditi and Vikram besides person a daughter, Krishna Bhatt.
In an earlier interview, Mahesh Bhatt, who called Vikram his ‘right-hand man’ during the making of Dastak, shared however helium witnessed their romance unfolding successful Seychelles. Speaking to ETimes, helium said, “During the making of Dastak, Vikram’s romance with Sushmita started successful Seychelles. Vikram was my close manus and utilized to beryllium astatine the forefront, doing astir of my work. So, helium utilized to interact with her much vigorously. That’s however the romance began.”
Interestingly, Sushmita — who turns 49 contiguous — and Vikram didn’t initially get on portion moving connected Dastak. In an aged occurrence of Rendezvous with Simi Garewal, Sushmita called Vikram the ‘biggest snob’ and accused him of often complaining astir her to Mahesh Bhatt. On his part, Vikram admitted helium wasn’t peculiarly fond of Sushmita astatine first, citing her inclination to alteration his dialogues and accused her her of ‘having an attitude.’
Recalling their archetypal friction, Sushmita said, “He came to maine moving connected the acceptable 1 time erstwhile I broke my digit and this was the time, I couldn’t basal him. This is towards the extremity of the film. I thought helium had thing idiosyncratic against maine due to the fact that helium would support complaining astir maine to Mahesh Bhatt.” She added, “After that, we started talking and became friends. We ended up successful an matter agelong after. It was a dilatory chemistry.”
When asked if Vikram was joined erstwhile their matter began, helium clarified, “Not erstwhile we started seeing each different but erstwhile we started moving with each other. Before the chemistry acceptable in, I was married.” Sushmita added, “His woman and helium were not surviving together. I can’t condemn a antheral oregon marque him consciousness blameworthy if helium had a atrocious marriage. I don’t person thing against his ex-wife oregon his daughter. Some things aren’t meant to be. I don’t consciousness blameworthy due to the fact that I person done thing precise openly. He was successful a divorcement erstwhile I met him, and I wasn’t going to hold to archer the satellite that I emotion him conscionable due to the fact that helium hadn’t got done the divorcement yet.”
Sushmita and Vikram’s narration didn’t past long, and they parted ways aft a fewer years of dating. Vikram aboriginal revealed that his 2006 directorial Ankahee was a ‘semi-fictionalised’ depiction of his narration with Sushmita portion helium was married. Despite their breakup, Vikram and Sushmita continued to enactment each other. When Sushmita faced trolling and was called a “gold digger” for dating businessman Lalit Modi, Vikram came to her defence.
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