Soni Razdan, sometimes known as Soni Bhatt, is a British actress and film director who works in Hindi films. She was born on October 25, 1956. She is married to director Mahesh Bhatt and the mother of Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt. Razdan began her theatrical career in English with John Fowles' The Collector and in Hindi with Satyadev Dubey's version of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, Bund Darvaze.