Mahesh Bhatt, on whether he will return to direction once again, says: 'I am not going to be directing again’ - Exclusive

Mahesh Bhatt spoke about how after the debacle of Alai Bhatt starrer Sadak 2 he doesn't plan to return to directing ever.

Veteran director Mahesh Bhatt, who has returned to the big screen as the writer of thriller horror Bloody Ishq, spoke exclusively with MoneyControl about working with Vikram Bhatt again and whether he will be collaborating with his younger daughter Alia Bhatt or not.

When we asked him when we see him directing Alia Bhatt after Sadak 2, which had been released in 2020, he laughed and said their last collaboration was 'disastorous'.

"Well, we had a disastrous collaboration. So but, that was a very strangely easy time to put in mind, but as you just say that you are a part of the entertainment world, if you deal with the intoxicating hives and the aggravation, you deal with the vilification and the downside of it also. Well, as I said, I am not going to be directing. I will be doing what I do the best, which is mentoring," Mahesh Bhatt  told MoneyControl.

Talking further, Mahesh Bhatt said he wants people to realize their own potential, and that is a very gratifying task.

"I think making people realize their own potential is a far more challenging, gratifying task. And because movies have limited scope after a point. Only that much they can add to your sense of purpose. I think one looks as though this older one has faith in the younger people. And I have tremendous faith in the young people who are going on with this."

He added, I am 'happy to be born old'.

"I happen to be born old, and I feel that the younger generation is mostly the way it is. I think that's very rich. But then, in fact, he has now mentioned that we will first let me accept; we believe you, and that pays for my grandmother. I was a young boy. If you're born old. So I'm doing what I'm doing; I'm trying to run and mentor the young generation. And the other people in my phone were lost. That's what I do more than what I do after, which is doing the writing.

And I think, I hope that because whatever I have got, what I received, I need to," he ended.

Mahesh Bhatt, who has a long list of movies, including Arth, Sadak, and Saransh, also spoke about how today’s generation lacks attention span.

"Well, we are living in an attention deficit age and an age that is kind of in the stranglehold of the need for products with ventures and clarity. They have products that need to have a feel. So I would say that if you compare Arth and Saransh, which are austere-looking spaces in which or looking at movies and also the spaces where they were shot, the intimate spaces. We have an intimate drama and validation between a man and a woman. Essentially, it's an interpersonal relationship film," he said.

Talking about his new movie Bloody Ishq, he said, "It is stored within the luscious expanse of Scotland and Ireland, and it's stored in a villa. So we created that created, but we created by the augmented reality in a village through the state of the technology development reality of yeah. I think I'm brilliant. And I think state-of-the art technology management storytelling—that is, the quantum leap from the movies you mentioned. Yes."

He said that to capture the attention of the audience, you have to be a fast-paced writer.

"To answer your question, things change. They have changed, and yet they have not changed. As they say, the more things change, the more they're going to remain the same. But they are living in an attention deficit age and competitive attention deficit age that I don't know of the platform executive experience. If you don't grab the audience the first thing, then you're lost. They’ll take the remote and go somewhere else. So I feel that's the compulsion that we're on time. And I think this is the age of reverse mentoring, and he is my prodigy. But I have; I have a great great joy to learn from him," said Mahesh Bhatt.

Bloody Ishq stars Vardhaan Puri and Avika in the lead and is directed by Vikram Bhatt.

Watch the entire interview here: