Soni Razdan says marriage to Mahesh Bhatt affected her acting career

Indian actress Soni Razdan has opened up about the impact her marriage to filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt had on her acting career,

Indian actress Soni Razdan has opened up about the impact her marriage to filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt had on her acting career, revealing that she received significantly fewer work opportunities after getting married.

In a recent interview, the 69-year-old actress reflected on the early period of her marriage and recalled how her professional life changed after she tied the knot with the filmmaker.

Razdan said she was already an established working actress when she married Mahesh Bhatt. At the time of their marriage, she had several projects that were already underway, and she continued working on those commitments.

However, according to the actress, the situation changed after she completed those projects. She said that new acting opportunities became increasingly difficult to find and that offers for work almost stopped coming her way.

Speaking about the experience, Razdan recalled a conversation in which her husband told her that some people from the film industry had questioned whether she still needed to work after getting married.

According to Razdan, Bhatt told her that people associated with the industry had directly asked him, “Your wife needs to work? She is married, right?”

The actress said that she found the attitude particularly strange because she had never considered marriage to be a reason for giving up her professional career.

Razdan explained that she was already pursuing acting before her marriage and had established herself in the profession. She said that the idea that a married woman would no longer need or be expected to work was unfamiliar to her, although she acknowledged that such thinking was relatively common in the industry at the time.

The actress’s comments have highlighted the social and professional expectations faced by married women in the Indian entertainment industry, particularly during the period when she began her career.

Razdan has worked across films, television and digital productions during her career and has remained active in the entertainment industry over the years. Her career has included performances in a range of projects and collaborations with prominent figures in Indian cinema.

Her marriage to Mahesh Bhatt has also remained a subject of public interest. The couple have two daughters, actress Alia Bhatt and filmmaker Shaheen Bhatt. Razdan has continued to appear in films and other screen projects despite the challenges she described from the earlier phase of her career.

The actress is currently appearing in the recently released Netflix film “Shak: Trust No One,” continuing her work in the digital entertainment space.

Razdan’s remarks have once again drawn attention to the changing attitudes toward women’s careers after marriage. While the entertainment industry has evolved considerably, her recollection provides an insight into the expectations that female performers faced during an earlier period of Indian cinema.

By sharing her personal experience, Razdan also highlighted how assumptions about marriage and women’s professional lives could affect career opportunities. Her account reflects a period when female actors could face pressure to reduce or end their professional commitments after marriage, even when they had already established careers.

Her comments have since sparked interest among audiences and brought renewed attention to the challenges faced by women balancing marriage and professional ambitions in the entertainment industry.