Mukesh Chhabra reveals Kriti Sanon was hurt when he ‘lied’ about her and it took him years to correct his mistake: ‘She’s like my sister’

Bollywood's leading casting director

Mukesh Chhabra

, who has done casting for films like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, ‘PK’ and ‘Jawan’, talked candidly about a dark period in his life. He revealed about the low phase of his life, which involved not handling his romantic relationship “nicely” and hurting actor

Kriti Sanon

, whom he regards as his sister.
Mukesh Chhabra was asked if he had any enduring

regrets

during an interview with Neelesh Misra.

The

casting director

talked about his "most beautiful relationship," which he lost because of arrogance. After losing his close friend, actor

Sushant Singh Rajput

, and his mother, he regarded this split as one of the most painful personal setbacks he has ever experienced.
He mentioned hurting Kriti Sanon because of a "lie" and shared, “Kriti is like my sister, I love her as much as I love my real sister. There was a situation, where I lied about her. When she learnt about it, she was quite hurt. It took me a lot of years to fix that.”
In the same interview, he talked about not giving his true love the respect she deserved. “It was my love, which lasted for six-seven years. But I lost that. There is the sadness of losing my mother, Sushant Singh Rajput, and also this. I tried hard, but I lost it. During my struggling days in Mumbai when I didn’t have money, she was with me, but I lost her, because of pride. That’s a lifelong regret. I tried to mend it, but it couldn’t happen,” he said.

The casting director said he doesn't want to "remember those six months" of his life when his arrogance caused everything to fall apart. Chhabra added that the woman in question got married in October of last year. “So, a friend said that now the chapter was over and the last sliver of hope was gone. It is an incomplete love story… My mother’s passing away will bother me for the rest of my life and this relationship, which I couldn’t complete, which I couldn’t handle nicely… It is my mistake. I know what I did. I am happy she is happily settled,” he added.

‘Dil Bechara’, starring Sushant Singh Rajput, marked Mukesh Chhabra's directorial debut. It was the actor's last film, and it was released after his death. In his most recent work, Chhabra did the casting of Imtiaz Ali's ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’, which debuted to overwhelmingly positive reviews.