And looks like netizens are in no mood to spare the two in recent times.
On Monday, Mahesh Bhatt released the first poster of his comeback directorial feature "Sadak 2", starring daughters Alia Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt, on social media, and was almost immediately fending against massive trolling and hatred.
Reacting to his tweet, netizens slammed the filmmaker, holding him responsible for demeaning Sushant''s mental condition and threatening to boycott "Sadak 2".
"Guy who declared 26/11 as RSS ki Sazish and his own son helped terrorists to identify the places, tried to declare Sushant as mentally unstable, having relationship with lady younger than her daughter''s daughter, lowest scum possible...Don''t know why this guy is not in jail," declared a social media user.
"When you put END to someone''s life intensionally, you''ll soon release your END," wrote another user.
"We are not interested... get lost," retorted another user.
A user responded by sharing the poster of Sushant Singh Rajput''s upcoming last film "Dil Bechara." Another user has started a poll asking people to choose between "Sadak 2" and "Dil Bechara".
While Alia also shared the poster on Instagram, she smartly ''limited'' the comments section. Only one comment is visible.
"Boycott Sadak 2. Boycott Alia Bhatt and Mahesh Bhatt," wrote a user.
"Sadak 2" is a follow-up of Mahesh Bhatt''s 1991 hit "Sadak" and is produced by his brother Mukesh Bhatt. The sequel reunites the original film''s lead pair of Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt, and also stars Alia Bhatt and Aditya Roy Kapur. "Sadak 2" marks Mahesh Bhatt''s return to filmmaking after 20 years.
On Monday afternoon, it was confirmed that the Bhatts have decided to bypass theatrical release for the film and take it directly to the streaming platform Disney+ Hotstar for an OTT premiere.