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Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, greatest recognized for his thrillers, usually made headlines within the late 90s and early 2000s for his relationships. In a latest interview with Siddharth Kannan, Vikram Bhatt was requested whether or not his 2006 movie Ankahee was primarily based on his personal life. To this, the director stated, “Quite a bit. I would say semi-fictionalised.” When requested if the movie was primarily based on his relationship with former Miss Universe and Bollywood star Sushmita Sen, Vikram Bhatt stated, “I think [it was based] on my situation with Sushmita and my wife. It was not incident-based. Sometimes you take the emotion and fictionalise it. So it was a real emotion in a fictionalised world.” 

When requested if his ex-wife Aditi Bhatt was not upset with their lives getting used as inspiration for cinema, Vikram Bhatt stated in Hindi: “I only blamed myself in the movie. Not Sushmita or my ex-wife’s character. So why be upset? I have the right to blame myself.” About Sushmita being upset with him over the movie, Vikram Bhatt stated, “I don’t know. I have never asked her. But I have all the rights over my own life and my own story – not on anyone else’s life.”

When requested if his tumultuous relationships –  together with the much-publicised ones with Sushmita Sen and Ameesha Patel – had left him exhausted, Vikram Bhatt stated, “All my relationships have taught me something. The pain has brought me to where I am today. My spiritual journey would not 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. And I say it with 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 to me has happened without my permission.”

Explaining that he doesn’t remorse his relationship with Sushmita Sen, Vikram Bhatt stated, “I don’t regret anything in my life. Not one thing. Not one mistake. I have made a lot of mistakes… This is my journey.”

Vikram Bhatt married artwork connoisseur Shwetambari Soni in 2020.