When Alia Bhatt opened up on her relationship with stepsister Pooja Bhatt: ‘No fakeness in our relationship’

Alia, in an interview, in 2014, spoke about her relationship with Pooja and said that there is no “fakeness” in their relationship. “Actually recently it’s become much better. We have gotten close as a family. People would always say that you have a step sister, step mother and all that but it never bothered me,” she shared on the Anupam Kher Show.

She continued, “Because our family is so real and honest with each other. There is no façade or fakeness. So when we spend time with each other, we genuinely like to spend time with each other.”

Alia and Pooja have previously spoken about the circumstances of Mahesh and Kiran’s marriage falling apart. Alia told Asian Age, “My father met my mother because he had an extramarital affair. I am not as black and white about life; sometimes in life, things happen for a reason. Of course, you would not want to propagate infidelity and I don’t propagate it, but I understand the nature of human — it’s not always that easy and it is something that’s prevalent.”

Pooja, however, told India Today, that her parents’ marriage was “long dead” before Mahesh and Soni got together. “I grew up with a father who supposedly went on to marry somebody else and have another family. I do not feel that way. In fact, I was very moved one day. Soni and I were on a recce to Conoor and she was sitting outside and she said, ‘Pooja I want to tell you I felt so guilty’ and I said, ‘Soni why do you need to feel guilty? You never broke any marriage up.’ That marriage was long dead.”