Pooja Bhatt

Pooja Bhatt
Occupation	Actress & Producer
Spouse	Manish Makhija
Parent	Mahesh Bhatt Kiran

Pooja Bhatt (Hindi: पूजा भट), is an Indian film actress, producer and director.

She is the daughter of Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt, and is related to the famous Bhatt family of Bollywood, that owns the film production company Vishesh Films.

Biography

Family

Born on February 24, 1972, Pooja Bhatt is of Gujarati Brahmin and Muslim descent on her father's side. She has Scottish, Armenian and Burmese ancestry on her mother's side. She is daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Kiran Bhatt (aka Loraine Bright) and step daughter of Soni Razdan, an actress. Her cousin Vikram Bhatt is a film screenwriter-director. Emraan Hashmi is another famous cousin who is a Bollywood actor.

She acted in many films which were produced and directed by her father.

On August 24, 2003, she married her long-time boyfriend and a former popular VJ of Indian music channel, Channel V, Munish Makhija aka Udham Singh. He now owns a restaurant-bar in Goa.

Career

She made her acting debut at age 17, in 1989 with Daddy, a TV film directed by her father Mahesh Bhatt. In the film she portrayed a soul-searching teenage girl in an estranged relationship with her alcoholic father, played by actor Anupam Kher.

Her biggest hit and her big screen debut came with a musical hit, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (1991) opposite Aamir Khan which was a remake of the Oscar-winning Hollywood classic "It Happened One Night." Pooja received the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for the film.

Her most well-known films in the 1990s included, Sadak (1991), Junoon (1992), Chaahat (1996), Tamanna (1996), a super-hit and multi-starrer Border(1997) and Zakhm (1998).

Her last film appearance was in Everybody Says I'm Fine! in 2001. She has since focused on producing and directing.

She made her directorial debut with Paap in 2004, starring John Abraham and Udita Goswami, since then she has made two more directorial ventures, Holiday (2006) and Dhokha (2007).

Awards and Nominations

Awards won

• 1991 - Filmfare Award for Lux Face of the Year

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Awards nominated

• 2005 - Popular Award for Best debuting Director for Paap (2003)

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1989	Daddy	Pooja
1991	Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin	Pooja Dharamchand
	Sadak	Pooja
1992	Prem Deewane	Radha
	Jaanam	Anjali
	Saatwan Aasman	Pooja Malhotra
	Junoon	Dr. Nita V. Chauhan
1993	Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee	Pooja
	Sir	Pooja
	Chor aur Chand	Reema D. Seth
	Pehla Nasha	Monica
	Tadipaar	Mohinidevi/Namkeen
1994	Kranti Kshetra	Pooja
1994	Kalluri Vasal Tamil	Pooja
	Naaraaz
1995	Gunehgar	Pooja Thakur
	Hum Dono	Priyanka Surendra Gupta/Priya
	Angrakshak	Priyanka Choudhary/Priya
1996	Chaahat	Pooja
1997	Tamanna	Tamanna Ali Sayed
	Border	Kanu
1998	Yeh Aashiqui Meri	Anju
	Kabhi Na Kabhi	Tina
	Angaaray	Pooja
	Zakhm	Mrs. Desai
2000	Yeh Pyar Hi To Hai
2001	Everybody Says I'm Fine!	Tanya

Producer

• Tamanna (1997)
• Dushman (1998)
• Zakhm (1998)
• Sur: The Melody of Life (2002)
• Jism (2003)
• Paap (2003)
• Vaada (2005)
• Rog (2005)
• Holiday (2006)

Director

• Paap (2003)
• Holiday (2006)
• Dhokha (2007)
• Kajraare (2009)

Production Designer

• Jism (2003)
• Paap (2003)
• Rog (2005)