Pooja Bhatt & Deepak Tijori Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Pooja Bhatt acted in every film; Deepak Tijori acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Pooja Bhatt personally recommended Deepak Tijori for the role of her love interest in 'Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin' (1991). Her father Mahesh Bhatt was directing, and she pushed for Tijori over more established names.
• In 'Sadak' (1991), Pooja played a traumatized sex worker while Deepak played her protective lover. Their scenes together had a raw, improvisational feel — Mahesh Bhatt let them rehearse without a script for two days before filming their first emotional confrontation.
• Their third film 'Pehla Nasha' (1993) was a direct remake of the Hollywood thriller 'Body Double' — and it marked the only time in Hindi cinema that a mainstream actress (Pooja) played a dual role opposite the same actor (Deepak) in a single film.
• Deepak Tijori has said that Pooja Bhatt was the only co-star who ever called him by his nickname 'Tijori' on set — and she still does. They remained close friends long after the films ended, with Pooja even directing him in a cameo for her 2003 film 'Paap'.
• Deepak Tijori once said: 'Pooja and I never had a single ego clash. She treated me like a friend, not a co-star. That's rare in this industry.' — from a 2021 interview about their three-film run.