Alia Bhatt is a beautiful British actress and singer who has Indian origin. She is among one of the highest-earning actresses in Indian in 2019. she got listed in the Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list in 2014 and in the 30 Under 30 list of Forbes Asia in 2017. She also has achieved many Filmfare Awards during her career.
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Alia Bhatt's debut movie: Student of the Year
Alia Bhatt's debut movie was the teen drama Student of the Year (2012) and has been playing in many movies of different genes until now.
The Student of the Year movie was directed by Karan Johar, based on a story by Joha rand produced by Hiroo Yash Johar. Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, and Varun Dhawan had their debut in this movie as the leading roles. The movie mostly revolves around 3 teenagers who are in their final years at St. Theresa's College and their love life.
The movie got mixed reviews from critics and got around $13 million at the box office, which is a commercial success. Most agree that it is a movie that worth a watch but not a must-watch due to its lack-of-a-story.
Alia Bhatt Bio
Alia Bhatt was born on 15 March 1993 in Mumbai. She is the daughter of Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan. She has an elder sister named Shaheen.
Alia Bhatt went to the Jamnabai Narsee School. Alia Bhatt thinks that she had a quite casual upbringing. She wasn't very close to her father and her mother Razdan basically raise her alone. Bhatt wanted to be an actress when she was a child, rehearing for the school choir in kindergarten.
She started taking dance lessons after that. She first played in the 1999 movie, Sangharsh, produced by her father. Played for a brief moment as the younger version of the main character.
"I don’t remember much of the shoot. I would go to the sets only for the food"
Alia Bhatt Career
Alia Bhatt's first movie with the leading is the movie Student of the Year in 2012. The performance of Alia Bhatt in the movie wasn't very well-received.
In 2014, Alia Bhatt starred in the road drama movie Highway as a teenager who develops Stockholm syndrome after being kidnaped. While the film didn't perform well at the box office, it earned her the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and Best Actress nomination.
Later that year, she starred in the romantic films 2 States and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Both films were a commercial success, which established her as a successful Bollywood actress.
Alia Bhatt got continuous success from 2016 to 2018. In 2016, she won Screen Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role in Udta Punjab and an additional Best Actress nomination at Filmfare for her role in Dear Zindagi. In 2018, she starred in Raazi, one of the highest-grossing Hindi movies with a female lead. It won her another Best Actress award at Filmfare.
In 2019, Alia Bhatt founded her own production company named Eternal Sunshine Production. Her first movie of the year is Gully Boy, a movie based on the life of 2 street rappers Divine and Naezy. The film got $33 million globally and it is the highest-grossing movie of Alia Bhatt. Gully Boy got 13 Filmfare Awards and Alia Bhatt was awarded the Best Actress trophy.
In 2020, Alia Bhatt starred in Sadak 2. Because of the COVID-19, the movie was released on Disney+ Hotstar. The movie got bad reviews and Alia Bhatt's performance was described as "average".
Alia Bhatt Interesting Facts
- Alia Bhatt was the girlfriend of Sidharth Malhotra and Ranbir Kapoor. She had a crush on Ranbir Kapoor when she was 11 years old.
- Alia Bhatt never wanted to debut in a movie produced by her father.
- She was actually overweight and she had to lose 16 kg over 3 months for the movie Student of the Year. She beat 400 other girls in the audition.
- She sang the Sooha Saaha, the soundtrack of the movie Highway in 2014.
- She is scared of the darkness so she always sleeps with the light on.
- She prefers to use man's perfume.
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