Mahesh left his wife and daughter Pooja Bhatt to live with Parveen. It was a period when Parveen was a top star and Mahesh a flop filmmaker. Along with this relationship, Parveen was surrounded by a mental illness, which Mahesh described as paranoid schizophrenia in many of his interviews. Myself, the author still remember when she visited Chor Bazar searching to buy old staff on my chhabdi - but don't even has enough fund to buy those lamps - she was wearing a tore dupatta and old used clothes - terrible!!
The disease caught Parveen in such a way that she could never get out of it. She was rumored to have had an affair with Amitabh Bachchan, with whom she later developed irrational fears as she accused him of trying to kill her. Once when Mahesh left her behind, she ran stark naked towards him to stop him from going.
She was found dead on 22 January 2005 after her residential society secretary alerted the police that she had not collected milk and newspapers from her doorstep for three days. #yusufbhandarkar