Filmmaker Hansal Mehta lost his mother Mrs Kishori Mehta on Friday 18 January (2013) after a brief illness, leaving the Mehta family, which had been assured that they would bring their beloved matriarch home in two weeks, stunned. Hansal, who has devoted his film career to directing themes of social injustice, is now poised for a long battle with a luxury hospital in Pune where the director’s mother allegedly died of gross medical negligence.