Bollywood actors Ranvir Shorey and Pooja Bhatt dated in the early 2000s but had a bitter public fallout, with Pooja accusing Ranvir of physically attacking her after drinking. Ranvir denied the allegations and claimed that Pooja’s brother, Rahul Bhatt , had physically assaulted him. Now, Rahul has spoken about his altercation with Ranvir and admitted that he regrets his actions.
They had an argument, after which Ranvir hit her or something like that. I had to step in and, when I did, my response was a bit exaggerated. I broke his car’s glass. I broke one of his ribs. I did a wrong thing by taking the law into my own hands. Subsequently, I paid the price for it. I was arrested. Charged. He admitted to regretting his actions and praised Ranvir for handling the situation well. I shouldn’t have overreacted. But in the case of Ranvir Shorey, I shouldn’t have. He was very decent. Nobody does something like that. People usually use such situations to extract money, but he didn’t. He came and compounded the case, and the FIR was quashed. Until then, I had a criminal case pending. He was very decent in that. I respect him for that. Nobody else would have done it without holding a grudge.”
In a chat with Siddharth Kannan on his podcast, Rahul said, “There was an altercation between Ranvir Shorey and Pooja Bhatt. He said, “I regret it. Back in those days, I said I would do it again. During the compounding of the offence, he came forward and said, ‘Let bygones be bygones.
The breakup continued to be a sensitive subject for Ranvir years later. Both marriages eventually ended in separation. In a subsequent interview, he alleged that Mahesh Bhatt had planted false stories about him in the media, while stressing that the events had taken place around 25 years earlier. Pooja later married VJ-turned-restaurateur Manish Makhija in 2003, while Ranvir married actor Konkona Sen Sharma in 2010.
During Bigg Boss OTT 3 in 2024, he referred to the episode as the “biggest scandal” of his life.
