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In the show, Tahir plays a character inspired by Mahesh Bhatt whereas Amala Paul plays a character inspired by Parvin Babi. The show also features a character based on Vinod Khanna, who was Mahesh’s close friend.
Ranjish Hi Sahi is yet another adaptation of Mahesh Bhatt’s life.
The veteran filmmaker has often created films and shows that take an aspect of his life. In fact, some of his most loved films are in fact, inspired by his own life.
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Before Ranjish Hi Sahi, Mahesh Bhatt first adapted his extramarital affair with Parvin Babi in the 1982 classic Arth starring Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Raj Kiran.
Three years later in 1985, he made a TV movie called Janam starring Kumar Gaurav. The film was about an aspiring filmmaker who was the illegitimate son of a popular filmmaker.
For the unversed, Mahesh Bhatt was the illegitimate son of filmmaker Nanabhai Bhatt.
Talking about his father, he had told TOI in 2003, “I was a love child: My parents were very much in love, but not married. I was born on September 20, 1948, to Nanabhai Bhatt, a Hindu, and Shirin Mohammed Ali, a Muslim. I was born after three daughters and followed by a daughter and son. My father did not live with us. When he came home, he never took off his shoes - he wouldn't be staying.”
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In 1989, Mahesh Bhatt tackled another aspect of his life in Daddy starring Anupam Kher. The film marked the acting debut of his daughter and was about his struggle with parenthood and alcoholism.
In 2018, Daddy was adapted into a play and at the occasion, Mahesh Bhatt had told Hindustan Times, “I changed the climax of the film a night before we shot it. Since I quit alcohol owing to my conscience, I tweaked the climax to show my protagonist doing the same.”
In 1990, Mahesh Bhatt once again took inspiration from his own life and made a romantic musical titled Aashiqui, one of the biggest hits of his career. The film was based on Mahesh’s romance with his first wife Lorraine Bright.
In 2012, Mahesh had tweeted, “The best-kept secret about Aashiqui is that it is also an autobiographical film, as it deals with the story of my very first love.”
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Later in 2017, he had further elaborated on the same. He had told Hindustan Times, “The narrative of the guy falling in love with an orphan girl was kind of cannibalised from my relationship with the first love of my life... my wife Lorraine Bright. It was the heartbeat of this love tale... I approached Pooja to play the role of her mother because I could see the story of Lorraine highly expressive and more submissive if Pooja had agreed to do it.”
Mahesh Bhatt then revisited his affair with Parvin Babi once again after Arth from a different perspective this time with the TV film Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee released in 1993.
In 1998, the filmmaker adapted his relationship with his mother and the ordeal she faced while raising illegitimate children. Titled Zakhm, the film starred Ajay Devgn in the lead role. The film also had Pooja Bhatt playing a role inspired by the life of Mahesh Bhatt’s mother and Nagarjuna playing a role inspired by his father Nanabhai Bhatt.
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A year later, in 1999, Mahesh gave up film direction but the urge to adapt his life on celluloid continued.
In 2006, the filmmaker wrote and backed Woh Lamhe directed by his nephew Mohit Suri and starring Shiney Ahuja and Kangana Ranaut. Like Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee, Woh Lamhe was also about Bhatt’s affair with Parvin Babi and focused on the actress’ battle with schizophrenia.
Around the release of the film, Mahesh Bhatt had stated, “I was watching the last scene of Woh Lamhe in my editing room when it dawned on me why human beings have always tried to keep their dead alive – we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. Woh Lamhe is my last goodbye to the memories of Parveen Babi. A woman whom I loved and lost.”
Well, clearly, it wasn’t his last goodbye to the actress’ memories as he claimed in 2006. Ranjish Hi Sahi in 2022 is proof of it.
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In between, Mahesh Bhatt backed Hamari Adhuri Kahani which was released in 2015. Directed by Mohit Suri and starring Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan and Rajkummar Rao, Hamari Adhuri Kahani was his tribute to his mother.
He had told India Today, “Yes, Hamari Adhuri Kahani is sourced from my own lived life. It has the heartbeat of my mother, who lived a difficult, solitary life as her husband, whom she loved so intensely, was conspicuous by his absence. He was simply unavailable for her.”
However, he mentioned that even though Zakhm was also based on similar lines, Hamari Adhuri Kahani was also about his stepmother, “Of course, this film, like Zakhm, is about my mother. But the main reason why I wrote this film was not her, but my stepmother. For the most part of my life, I saw my stepmother as a demon, but when I got closer to her I discovered that she was a magnificent woman whose life too was as tragic as my mother's.”
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In 2016, Mahesh Bhatt turned towards TV and directed a few episodes of daily soap titled Naamkaran which was based on the 1998 film Zakhm.
Now after the release of Ranjish Hi Sahi, here’s wondering how many more of his life story reboots Mahesh Bhatt’s going to present to the audience in future.
If they are more like Zakhm, Daddy and Arth, I am not complaining.
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