Ranvir Shorey Makes SHOCKING Claims: 'Pooja Bhatt's Brother Assaulted Me, Mahesh Bhatt Planted Lies'

Ranvir Shorey has finally opened up about his fallout with Pooja Bhatt. The two, who were close friends before being involved in a romantic relationship, had an ugly breakup following which Pooja had also accused Ranvir of being abusive. However, in a recent interview, Ranvir addressed the allegations for the first time and claimed that it was Pooja Bhatt’s brother who ‘assaulted’ him. He even blamed Mahesh Bhatt for planting “false” stories 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,” Ranvir told Siddharth Kannan.

“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,” the actor added.

Ranvir, who was recently seen in Bigg Boss OTT 3, had also made an indirect mention of his past relationship with Pooja in one of the episodes. The actor recalled that while he was shooting for his film, Lakshya, in Ladakh in 2002, he received a call from home informing him that his mother was not well. However, he couldn’t leave the set until the shoot ended. Speaking along the same lines, Ranvir recalled that he was also involved in “the biggest scandal” of his life with an actress during that time.

“During the same time, I also encountered the biggest scandal of my life with another actress. Unable to cope, my brother asked me to come to the US with him for a while. I pursued a six-month acting course in the States and borrowed money from my brother. After returning from the US, I started shooting for ‘The Great Indian Comedy Show’ in 2005. At that time, two of my long-shelved films were greenlit for release and hit theatres back-to-back within a week and my work was loved by audiences. After those films, I finally felt my life was steady as an actor and that I had arrived,” he said.