Mahesh Bhatt needs no introduction. In fact the filmmaker is one of the few Bollywood personalities, who never shies away from calling a spade a spade. In a career spanning over four decades, Bhatt, who has given hits like Saaransh, Daddy, Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, Duplicate and Murder, has proven record of being an exceptional director; His work speaks volumes about his credentials as a director. While the veteran director turns a year older today on September 20, 2018, his daughter Pooja Bhatt had started the countdown to the special day with a series of adorable pictures of Bhatt (back in the days) from the family album. She captioned the first picture as, "Seven days to my father’s 70’TH birthday... seven pictures from the family album,one each day, leading upto the big day (Sept 20’TH)"

Also, in one of the captions, the actress mentioned Bhatt's meet with Raj Khosla (for a job). Alongside a picture of the two (Bhatt and Khosla), Pooja wrote, "What do you know about filmmaking on a scale of Zero to ten” Raj Khosla asked,when my father first went to him for a job. “Zero” replied my father. Raj Khosla smiled “Zero is a good place to begin from!” And that’s how Mahesh Bhatt got his first job as an assistant director. Today,when I show this picture to my father he smiles and says- '50 years later I have arrived at this understanding: Zero is a great figure to arrive at. I celebrate this profound sense of not knowing'."

Take a look at these throwback pictures of Mahesh Bhatt:

Interestingly, Mahesh Bhatt's wife Soni Razdan and both the daughters are planning for a grand celebration. We are sure, it will be a star-studded evening. Speaking of who all has been invited for Bhatt's birthday bash, there have been reports doing the rounds that the filmmaker has personally invited Alia Bhatt's boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor. Reports also suggest that Ranbir and Alia have wrapped the shoot of Brahmastra in Bulgaria a little early so as to not miss Bhatt's special day. If the reports are anything to go by, we are sure fans can't contain their excitement as this will be the first time Ranbir will be partying with the Bhatt family. Excited much?

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