Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt with his wife Soni Razdan, daughters Shaheen Bhatt, Alia Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt, during the launch of Shaheen's debut book "I've never been (un)happ...
Indian film maker Mukesh Bhatt stands for photographs during the 20th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards ceremony in Mumbai.
Bollywood film director Mahesh Bhatt, actress Pooja Bhatt, Soni Razdan and Alia Bhatt attended the screening of the film ‘No Fathers in Kashmir’, in Mumbai.
Bollywood actors Manisha Koirala, Anupam Kher, Rekha and director Mahesh Bhatt during the launch of a book titled 'Healed', written by Neelam Kumar, in Mumbai.
Former cricketer, S Sreesanth with Director Mahesh Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt during the promotion for their upcoming Hindi film ‘Cabaret’ in Mumbai.
Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee, center, acknowledges the crowd Bollywood personalities, front left to right, Mahesh Bhatt, Kamal Hasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah ...
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt with Udta Punjab film actors Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt speaks at a press conference organized by Indian Film and Television Directors Association (IFTDA) ...
“I read two magazines and they are my favourites: The Literary Review and Parabola. TLR gives me an in-depth view of the books landscape, in a lyrical language which is great to ...
Alia with filmmaker father Mahesh Bhatt. Where would she fit in the lineage?
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and actors Emraan Hashmi and Amyra Dastur during an interaction with journalists at PTI in New Delhi.
Mahesh Bhatt's son Vishesh Bhatt and his wife during their wedding reception in Mumbai.
Actors Akshay Kumar, Rani Mukhereei, Anil Kapoor and filmmaker Karan Johar at the wedding reception of Mahesh Bhatt's son Vishesh Bhatt in Mumbai.
Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan at the wedding reception of Mahesh Bhatt's son Vishesh Bhatt in Mumbai.
They Won’t Copy His Hair Praise the lord—after decades of manhandling a guitar, the evolved Bollywood actor, Aditya Roy Kapur in this case, gets his fingers right. Shraddh...
Bollywood producer and director Mahesh Bhatt at actor Sanjay Dutt's residence in Mumbai. The Supreme Court had upheld the conviction of Sanjay Dutt under Arms Act in 1993 blasts ca...
Singer Kailash Kher and Film Director Mahesh Bhat during a candle light rally to pay tribute to Delhi gang rape victim, in Mumbai.
Mellow Drama The middle of August 64 years ago bore witness to a momentous change and left open wounds that’ve been festering ever since. The midnight anniversary of that head...
Film director Mahesh Bhatt, with Sarabjit Singh's new Pakistani lawyer Owais Shah, his sister Dalbir Kaur and daughter Poonam, addresses a press conference in Amritsar.
Actor Emraan Hashmi and film-director Mahesh Bhatt speaking at a press conference. Emraan Hashmi accused a housing society in the posh Bandra area of “religious discriminationâ€...
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Shiv Visvanathan in the Asian Age on l'affaire Rahul Bhatt:
When a person is connected even inadvertently with a terrorist, a pall of suspicion envelopes the individual and his friends. A barrage of accusations and questions hammer the family. It turns defensive explaining events, ideas and conversations, one would have not thought of. Freedom after all is the Freedom from suspicion. But as you watch a family run a gauntlet of question marks, you begin to reflect on certain things.
Terror at a collective level is anonymous. You do not know who it is going to hit. But terror creates an ambience of suspicion around people. Many innocent people get marked as suspects. They are haunted by the stigma of question marks. It is a symbolic branding which can destroy friendships or even the taken for granted world you have lived so happily in.
Terror dissolves the everydayness of the world. It destroys it twice: once for the suspect and also more poignantly for his family and friends.
Read the full piece: Stigma of the question mark haunts and hurts
Meanwhile, in Gujarat, it is business as usual as Mahesh Bhatt films are getting disrupted and cancelled.
