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Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and legendary actor Parveen Babi were in a relationship for nearly three years. Counted among the most glamorous women in Bollywood in the ’70s and ’80s, Parveen Babi passed away at the age of 50 in 2005. In a recent interaction, Mahesh Bhatt revealed that he had begun shooting a film titled Ab Meri Baari with Parveen, but had to replace her with Rekha after she experienced a mental health episode. Unfortunately, the film never reached completion due to financial constraints.
Speaking to Radio Nasha Official, Bhatt shared, “I was in a relationship with her and when you are with someone you want to spend time with them. I wanted to make the film Ab Meri Baari. The movie was supposed to feature Dev Anand, Rishi Kapoor, Tina Ambani and also Praveen Babi. During the shooting of the film, she had a mental (health) episode, got sick and the film was stopped. Then we took Rekha ji and reshot it but because of lack of finance, it couldn’t be completed.”
In real life, Mahesh Bhatt and Parveen Babi’s love story is believed to have started in 1977, following her breakup with then-boyfriend Kabir Bedi. Heartbroken, Parveen found comfort in Bhatt and they eventually fell in love. Bhatt chose to leave his wife, Lorraine Bright (also known as Kiran Bhatt), and their daughter Pooja Bhatt, to be with Parveen. However, their relationship was eventually strained by Parveen’s mental health struggles.
In an interview with Filmfare, Bhatt revealed that top psychiatrists diagnosed the late actor with paranoid schizophrenia. While he tried to help her, Parveen’s delusions kept getting worse, and they grew apart. “Sometimes she’d say the air conditioner had a bug. We had to dismantle it and show it to her. At other times there was ‘a bug’ in the fan or in the perfume.”
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