Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt has married for the second time, tying the knot with art curator Shwetambari Soni.
Though the marriage took place in September last year, it was only on Wednesday that the world came to know about it when Bhatt shared a birthday post for Soni on Instagram.
Sharing a picture with her, he wrote, “You turned me inside out. And you showed me what life was about only you. The only one that stole my heart away. I wanna do all I can just to show you. Make you understand. Only you. The only one that stole my heart away. Happy birthday my love Shwetambari Soni.”
Speaking about his marriage, Bhatt told the Mid-Day newspaper, “It was a private ceremony at my home, with her three sisters and my family in attendance. Even my friends couldn’t come. We had initially thought of having a [grand] wedding, but the pandemic [played spoilsport].”
Bhatt said he met Soni when they were to work together on an art exhibition. The event eventually did not take place, but they found love in each other.
“What I love about Shweta is that she is intelligent and more frank than me," the filmmaker said. "She doesn’t belong to the world of films, so I love coming home to someone who has been in a completely different world. I bounce my ideas off her as Shweta is astute with stories. She is honest with her feedback, especially if the story is crap.”
This is also a second marriage for Soni. The filmmaker said he didn’t want to reveal his second marriage until everyone in the family had come to terms with it. “There’s my daughter Krishna; Shweta has [two sons], so I could not speak about it till they were okay with it," he said. "Now, they are. At 52, what I have with Shweta is not a crazy love affair, but a content, happy relationship.”
Bhatt and his first wife Aditi were divorced in 1998.