A recent newspaper report has indicated that Vishesh Films’ next outing JASHN sees the ‘comeback’ of Mahesh Bhatt as a director. Even though Raksha Mistry and Hasnain Hyderabadwala get credited as the co-directors of the film, it has been stated that Mahesh Bhatt took over the realms of direction after being disappointed with the results that were shown to him. Worse, the article seemingly also gets Mahesh Bhatt going on record to agree that he has indeed directed a few key scenes.
When questioned if this indeed was true, Mahesh Bhatt categorically denied either directing the film or even making a statement to this regard.
”It’s extremely brutal for the newspaper and the journalist to write something like this inspite of me being specific in my reply about my contribution to JASHN”, says Mahesh Bhatt, ”Yes, I was present on the sets in the capacity of a creative contributor but that’s something that I would do for any other film of mine as well.”
”I am skilled enough to aid in whatever way it is possible on the sets but contribution in that manner is completely different from calling the shots”, he adds, ”Otherwise as far as being a director is concerned, I took a ‘sanyas’ from it long time back.”