By: Entertainment DeskNew Delhi | October 1, 2025 04:22 PM IST 3 min readMahesh Bhatt praised his granddaughter Raha Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor's daughterDirector Mahesh Bhatt spoke about his granddaughter Raha, and recalled seeking advice about becoming a grandparent from Amitabh Bachchan. He said that he asked Bachchan when it first hit him that he’d become a grandparent, implying that it took him a while as well. The filmmaker has been vocal about his troubled past, and how it affected his relationship with his four children. Raha is his first grandchild, the daughter of Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor. In an interview, he said that he hadn’t yet come to terms with Alia’s achievements when she had a child of her own.Chatting with TV9 Bharatvarsh, Bhatt said that he is proud to be a father to three daughters. “Paying heed to what women have to say has been ingrained in me since childhood. I was raised by a single mother, my father wasn’t around,” he said, adding that he has always been impressed with the heightened intelligence and focus that women have in comparison to men.Also read – Alia Bhatt pointed dad Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘only contribution’ to Raha’s life was talking to her in Hindi: ‘She corrected herself…’Asked about his bond with Raha, he said, “I hadn’t even wrapped my head around Alia’s astounding success, and she went and got married and child. I tell her, ‘Your best creation is not your cinema work, it’s Raha’. She is a gift from nature, who has arrived her via Alia. I look into her eyes and I tell Ranbir, ‘You and Alia combined don’t have the magnificence of this child’. She has a vitality and an energy. Every generation is a superior generation to the previous generation. She’s very smart, she’s very bright, she’s very intelligent. I keep observing her. We have a unique relationship.”Bhatt continued, recalling the anecdote about Bachchan. “I’m not as close to her as Soni. They spend more time together. I once asked Mr Bachchan when he realised that he’s a grandfather, and he said, ‘It takes time. When you’re a father, you’re busy working. You can’t give your children enough time, and before you know it, they’re grown up. When you become a grandparent, it takes you a while to realise that life is giving you another chance. Then, you become one of the millions of other men who are grandfathers’. We are no different from the regular man who becomes a grandfather; our emotions are the same,” he said.Alia and Ranbir tied the knot in 2022, and welcomed Raha later that same year. In a recent Instagram live session, Ranbir spoke about Raha’s loving gesture on his 43rd birthday, and said, “I spent the entire day with Alia and Raha and just did nothing. Raha made me a promise that she will give me 43 kisses, so I got that and she made me a beautiful card. It really moved me. It was a perfect birthday.”Click here to follow Screen Digital on YouTube and stay updated with the latest from the world of cinema.© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd