Actor Ranvir Shorey.
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Ranvir Shorey who was close friends with Pooja Bhatt before entering into a romantic relationship has levelled some allegations against Pooja Bhatt's brother and Mahesh Bhatt in a recent interview, according to a report in News 18.
Shorey claimed that it was actually Bhatt's brother who assaulted him. He also alleged that Mahesh Bhatt, spurned false narratives against him in the media.
“At the time we had a conflict, I felt that the respect I had for him, he used that manipulatively. When the fight happened, he told my father, ‘Ok, we will rest the matter here, whatever the fight happened between the kids.’ The next day, he proceeded to print utter lies about me, and planted false stories in the media against me, painting me as an alcoholic abusive person. All lies,” Shorey told Siddharth Kannan in an interview.
“Her brother was the one, who assaulted me. He (Mahesh Bhatt) could have told these guys not to talk like that…In that sense, I felt he was manipulative towards me. These are all 25-year-old stories, I don’t want to get into them now,” he added.
Ranvir Shorey was last seen participating in Big Boss OTT3 where he addressed the allegations against him and stated that they are false.
An NDTV article states that Pooja Bhatt had previously claimed that Ranvir would become "violent" while in an inebriated state and was physically abusive.
After his break-up with Bhatt, Shorey went on to marry actress Konkona Sen Sharma, the duo has a son but the couple split up in 2015. Pooja Bhatt too married Manish Makhija later on but the couple parted ways a year later.