News India Live, Digital Desk: Bollywood Director: Are you also crazy about Mahesh Bhatt’s films and his bold style? Things to his life are often discussed, but do you know that there was an incident in his childhood which left a deep impression on his heart? This incident was not just a playful incident, but it shows a picture of some deep social discrimination, which forced Mahesh Bhatt to think about how different he is from others. Mahesh Bhatt’s childhood and that scary moment! This is from his childhood. Mahesh Bhatt himself says that he never realized that he was different from the rest. His family was a strange environment, where there was a mixture of both Hindu and Muslim cultures. His mother was Muslim and father Hindu, due to which there was an atmosphere of Ganga-Jamuni culture in his house. But many times in childhood, children’s questions or their views are more pointed and painful than those of adults. Once some boys surrounded Mahesh Bhatt. He had doubts about Mahesh whether he was a ‘Parsi’. Now you might be wondering, what’s the big deal in this? It was not just about being a Parsi, but there was a kind of division of “identity” between the communities in the minds of the children. These boys wanted to know whether Mahesh Bhatt was a part of their group or not. And their way of finding out was very cruel. Those boys asked Mahesh Bhatt to pull down his pants! His intention was to check whether Mahesh Bhatt had been circumcised or not. If circumcision had taken place, they would have believed that Mahesh was not like them, perhaps from a ‘Parsi’ or some other community. What a scary and embarrassing experience it must have been for an innocent child to face such questions, and to be asked to check his physical appearance. Mahesh Bhatt says that this incident shook him from within. Before this incident, he had never felt ‘different’, but this incident forced him to look at his identity differently. This was the moment when he got his first bitter taste of social identity and the concept of ‘being different’. It shows how childhood experiences play a very important role in shaping our thinking and personality, and how even small incidents leave deep scars. This incident shows how deeply rooted religion and identity are in our society and how sometimes it engulfs even innocent childhood.