When Sushmita Sen reacted to her affair with Vikram Bhatt: ‘I wasn’t going to wait to tell the world I love him’

Sushmita Sen made her debut with ‘Dastak’ in 1996 after she won the ‘Miss Universe’ crown. The actress celebrates her birthday today and ever since she started out, she’s always proven to be an inspiration for being very honest and unapologetic. Infact, the actress has also had no qualms about admitting to her mistakes. Her life has been an open book and she’s always spoken about her personal life. This even includes the time when she was dating Vikram Bhatt who was married.
It all began on the sets of ‘Dastak’, which was directed by Mahesh Bhatt and Vikram was his right hand on the film. Earlier, during an interview with ETimes, Mahesh Bhatt had recalled how Sushmita and Vikram’s love affair started. He had said, “During the making of Dastak, Vikram’s romance with Sushmita started in Seychelles. Vikram was my right hand and used to be at the forefront, doing most of my work. So, he used to interact with her more vigorously. That’s how the romance began.”
Earlier, during an interview with Simi Garewal, Sushmita had spoken about her relationship with Vikram and his marriage. She said, “He came to me running on the set one day when I broke my finger and this was the time, I couldn’t stand him. This is towards the end of the film. I thought he had something personal against me because he would keep complaining about me to Mahesh Bhatt. After that, we started talking and became friends. We ended up in an affair long after. It was a slow chemistry.”
Vikram was married to his childhood sweetheart Aditi and they have a daughter together, Krishna Bhatt. Sushmita had reflected on being in a relationship with a married man and said, “His wife and he were not living together. I can’t condemn a man or make him feel guilty if he had a bad marriage. I don’t have anything against his ex-wife or his daughter. Some things aren’t meant to be. I don’t feel guilty because I have done something very openly. He was in a divorce when I met him, and I wasn’t going to wait to tell the world that I love him just because he hadn’t got through the divorce yet.”