Days after Mahesh Bhatt and Rhea Chakraborty's WhatsApp chats went viral on the Internet, the veteran filmmaker’s wife Soni Razdan and daughter Pooja Bhatt have now defended him.

Soni and Pooja have said that the forwards Mahesh sent Rhea had also been sent to them, and several other people in the filmmaker’s contact list.

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Sharing a screengrab of the same message on her phone, Pooja wrote that the message being referred to as ‘most explosive revelation’ by a news channel “is a message that my father also sent me & countless other people on his phone list on the same day(June 9) & subsequently posted on Twitter as well (26-6-2020) get your facts right.”


Mahesh Bhatt’s wife Soni Razdan, sharing a screengrab of her own chat window, wrote, “Yes true. Here is mine. We get them everyday. When will news channels actually give us real news and not fabricated spin-offs. Most seem to have turned into uglier more salacious versions of Stardust and Cine Blitz.”


Earlier, India Today had shared the messages, which span from June 8, the day Rhea left boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput’s house, to June 15, the day after Sushant died. The leak also revealed that Rhea and Mahesh had been in touch on June 14, the day of Sushant’s death.

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Mahesh Bhatt's name has been surfacing for a few months in Sushant Singh Rajput death case. The filmmaker has been questioned by the Mumbai Police too.