Pooja
Bhatt
Alia
Bhatt:
Actor-filmmaker
Pooja
Bhatt
recently
made
headlines
with
her
appearance
on
Salman
Khan's
hosted
reality
show
Bigg
Boss
OTT
2.
During
her
stint
on
the
show,
she
opened
up
about
various
aspects
of
her
personal
life.
And
now,
Pooja
has
addressed
the
rumours
that
had
left
many
baffled
in
the
past.
Several
media
reports
in
the
past
stated
that
Alia
Bhatt
is
Pooja's
daughter.
Reacting
to
it,
the
actress
dismissed
them
and
called
it
'absurd.'
Pooja
Bhatt
reacts
to
rumours
claiming
Alia
Bhatt
is
her
daughter
For
the
first
time,
Pooja
Bhatt
addressed
the
wild
rumour
that
claimed
Alia
Bhatt
is
her
daughter.
In
an
interview
with
Siddharth
Kanan,
Pooja
was
informed
that
Alia
Bhatt
had
earlier
laughed
off
these
rumours.
When
asked
to
weigh
in,
Pooja
Bhatt
called
the
rumours
'idiotic'
and
said,
"Ye
toh
humare
desh
mein
bahut
purani
cheez
hai
(This
is
not
new
in
our
country).
Start
talking
about
somebody's
relationship
with
their
daughter
or
with
their
bhabhi
or
with
their
sister
or
with
their
whatever."
"Now,
how
do
you
counteract
that?
Ke
aap
iss
cheez
ko
dignity
bhi
de
sakte
hai
respond
kar
ke?
It
is
absurd," she
said.
For
the
unversed,
Pooja
Bhatt
is
veteran
filmmaker
Mahesh
Bhatt's
daughter
from
his
first
marriage
with
Lorraine
Bright,
aka
Kiran
Bhatt.
They
both
welcomed
Pooja
in
1972.
However,
they
got
divorced,
Mahesh
met
Soni
Razdan,
and
they
tied
the
knot
in
1986.
Mahesh
and
Soni
welcomed
their
older
daughter
Shaheen
Bhatt
and
had
Alia
Bhatt
in
1993.
Therefore,
Alia
and
Pooja
are
half-sisters
and
have
an
age
gap
of
21
years.
Alia
and
Pooja
share
a
very
good
bond,
and
Pooja
also
attended
Alia's
wedding
with
Ranbir
Kapoor
in
2021.
Earlier,
Alia
also
extended
her
support
to
Pooja's
participation
in
Bigg
Boss
OTT
2.
Talking
about
her
relationship
with
Pooja
in
2014,
Alia
said,
"Actually
recently
it's
become
much
better.
We
have
gotten
close
as
a
family.
People
would
always
say
that
you
have
a
step-sister,
stepmother,
and
all
that
but
it
never
bothered
me."
She
added,
"Because
our
family
is
so
real
and
honest
with
each
other.
There
is
no
façade
or
fakeness.
So
when
we
spend
time
with
each
other,
we
genuinely
like
to
spend
time
with
each
other."