India, June 8 -- Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt has opened up about a challenging phase from his early career, revealing that even while he was professionally active and dating former Miss Universe and actor Sushmita Sen, he was going through a severe financial crunch.

In a recent interview with Siddharth Kannan, Vikram reflected on the mid-1990s period when he was working as an assistant to director Mahesh Bhatt and gradually building his own space in Bollywood. It was around this time that he met Sushmita Sen on the sets of Dastak (1996), which marked her debut film. As their relationship developed alongside their work in the industry, he shared that his personal finances remained extremely unstable despite being surrounded by big film project...