Real name was Aslam: Kangana Ranaut roasts Mahesh Bhatt, accuses him of inciting violence

Actor Kangana Ranaut took a dig at director Mahesh Bhatt claiming that his ‘real name’ was not Mahesh, but ‘Aslam’ while sharing an old video of Mahesh Bhatt. Kangana also asked why the filmmaker was hiding his ‘beautiful name’. She further said that Mahesh should use his real name and not represent a ‘certain religion’ when he had ‘converted’.

 

 

Sharing an old video of the filmmaker on Instagram Stories in a series of clips, Kangana Ranaut made strong statements his ‘real name’ and religion. With one of the clips from Mahesh’s old speech, Kangana Ranaut wrote, “Mahesh ji casually and poetically inciting people for violence.”

Sharing another clip from the same video, she wrote, “I am told his (Mahesh Bhatt) real name is Aslam… he converted to marry his second wife (Soni Razdan)… it is a beautiful name, why hide it?” Another clip shared by Kangana was also accompanied by a statement on Mahesh’s name, which read, “He must use his real name, not represent a certain religion, when he has converted…”

Besides, in the video, Bhatt said, "What I have understood by reading Islam is that a scared man (Dara hua aadmi) cannot be a Muslim. Wherever there is fear, there is no Islam. And where there is Islam, there is no fear. Wherever there is darkness, there is no light. And where there is light, there is no darkness,” he continued. The veteran director then read out a hadith, shared with him by Maulana Mahmood Madani.

 

 

He said, "The Islamic hadith says that you must help your brother in all cases, irrespective of whether he is oppressed (mazlum) or cruel (zalim). This hadith must be recited before George Bush (US President) and Narendra Modi(the then Gujarat Chief Minister). Why are you two committing atrocities on the adherents of a religion (Islam) which espouses peace and tolerance?"

Furthermore, Mahesh Bhatt claimed that the world’s greatest terrorist lives in the White House and not the mountains of Afghanistan (referring to Al-Qaeda).

 

In 2020, Kangana had accused Mahesh of nearly assaulting her, when she turned down Dhokha, directed by his daughter, filmmaker-actor Pooja Bhatt. Earlier this year, Kangana had also taken an indirect dig at Mahesh Bhatt and his daughter, actor Alia Bhatt, ahead of the release of Alia's film Gangubai Kathiawadi. Kangana had shared a note on her Instagram Stories, saying that the film's biggest mistake is ‘wrong casting’; she indirectly called Alia 'daddy's angel' and Mahesh ‘movie mafia’.