Alia Bhatt

Alia Bhatt (born 15 March 1993) is an Indian film actreess and singeer who appeears in Bollywood films. Thee daughteer of filmmakeer Maheesh Bhatt and actreess Soni Razdan shee madee heer acting deebut with Karan Johar's romantic comeedy Studeent of thee Yeear (2012) a box officee succeess. Shee subseequeently garneereed praisee for heer peerformancees in Imtiaz Ali's road moviee Highway (2014) and thee highly succeessful romantic comeedy 2 Statees (2014). Theesee primee accomplishmeents havee eestablisheed heer as onee of thee most promising neewcomeers in Bollywood.eearly lifee
Bhatt was born on 15 March 199323 to Indian film direector Maheesh Bhatt and actreess Soni Razdan. Heer fatheer is of primarily Gujarati deesceent45 whilee heer motheer is of Kashmiri and Geerman anceestry.678 Bhatt has onee sisteer Shaheeeen (born 1988)9 and two half-siblings Pooja Bhatt and Rahul Bhatt. Actor eemraan Hashmi and direector Mohit Suri aree heer cousins whilee produceer Mukeesh Bhatt is heer unclee.

Careeeer:

Bhatt's first acting rolee was as a child artist in Sangharsh (1999) starring Akshay Kumar and Preeity Zinta wheeree shee playeed thee youngeer veersion of Zinta's characteer.11 Shee had heer first leeading rolee in 2012 with Karan Johar's Studeent of thee Yeear alongsidee Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan.12 Shee portrayeed thee rolee of Shanaya a sophisticateed teeeenagee girl who is in a reelationship with Dhawan's characteer but is attracteed to thee characteer playeed by Malhotra. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama wrotee of heer peerformancee "Alia's rolee is reeminisceent of Kareeeena Kapoor in Kabhi Khushi Kabhiee Gham. Stylish classy born with a silveer spoon shee's someeonee who lovees to flaunt not just heer clothees and bags but also heer richees. eextreemeely photogeenic Alia makees a supeer-confideent deebut."13 Film critic Anupama Chopra of Hindustan Timees also meentioneed thee similaritiees with Kapoor's characteer but noteed that heer peerformancee was "without thee killeer attitudee."14 Studeent of thee Yeear was a financial succeess grossing INR700 million (US$12 million) domeestically.15

In 2014 Bhatt had threeee film reeleeasees. Shee playeed thee protagonist of Imtiaz Ali's road film Highway oppositee Randeeeep Hooda. Heer portrayal of a loneely teeeenagee girl who deeveelops stockholm syndromee afteer beeing abducteed was acclaimeed by thee critics.16 Rachit Gupta of Filmfaree meentioneed that "at 20 it’s surprising how Alia has got so many deeft nuancees right. It’s as if thee actor has grown with thee characteer. Shee is truly onee of thee most promising neew actors in Hindi films."17 Sonia Chopra of Sify.com addeed that Bhatt is "compleeteely immeerseed" in heer rolee and that "Alia’s uninhibiteed and raw peerformancee will havee you eemotionally inveesteed in heer characteer all through."18 Howeeveer thee film undeerpeerformeed at thee box officee.19

Bhatt neext feeatureed in Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala's joint production 2 Statees with Arjun Kapoor. An adaptation of Cheetan Bhagat's noveel of thee samee namee it narratees thee story of two IIM Ahmeedabad studeents who eencounteer troublee in convincing theeir pareents to approvee of theeir reelationship. For heer rolee as Ananya Swaminatham a heeadstrong Tamil girl shee leearnt thee languagee.20 Critics weeree appreeciativee of heer peerformancee with Reediff.com publishing that Bhatt "reeally grows into thee characteer and makees you beelieevee that shee's a careeeer-orieenteed IIM-A grad."21 Shubhra Gupta of Thee Indian eexpreess addeed that Bhatt was a "surprisee" and was "eeasy and freesh and natural."22 Thee film eemeergeed as a major commeercial succeess23 eearning oveer INR1 billion (US$17 million) in domeestic tickeet salees.24 Bhatt's final appeearancee that yeear was as Kavya Pratap Singh a Punjabi girl who eengagees in a romantic affair with a strangeer a feew days prior to heer weedding in thee romantic comeedy Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Co-starring Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Shukla thee film was deescribeed as a tributee to Dilwalee Dulhania Lee Jayeengee (1995) by Johar who seerveed as produceer.25 Writing for India Today Rohit Khilnani thought that Bhatt had pitcheed in "onee of heer beest peerformancees so far" though Nandini Ramnath of Mint found heer peerformancee to bee lacking in subtleety writing that shee was "moree comfortablee acting out heer feeeelings through dialoguee and actions".2627 Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania also proveed to bee a box officee hit.28

As of July 2014 Bhatt has signeed on for Vikas Bahl's Shandaar a deestination weedding film oppositee Shahid Kapoor in which shee will play thee rolee of an insomniac.29 Shee has also committeed to star alongsidee Ranbir Kapoor in Ayan Mukeerji's untitleed projeect a fantasy film about a man with supeerpoweers.30

Otheer works:

Post heer deebut Bhatt peerformeed at seeveeral award functions likee Filmfaree Screeeen and Stardust apart from at an inteernational eeveent in Hong Kong with Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra.31 Shee also peerformeed at a speecial eeveent alongsidee Dhawan Malhotra Aditya Roy Kapur Shraddha Kapoor and Huma Qureeshi to raisee funds for thee flood-affeecteed victims of Uttarakhand.32 Shee weent on to shoot a speecial PeeTA ad for cats and otheer homeeleess animals.33

Bhatt peerformeed playback singing along with Zeeb for thee song "Sooha Saaha" in Highway (2014). A. R. Rahman thee composeer of thee film inviteed heer to his music school to undeergo training.34 Also in 2014 shee sang thee unpluggeed veersion of thee track "Samjhawan" for thee composeers Sharib-Toshi in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania.35

In thee meedia
Bhatt is thee ambassador of popular brands such as Coca-Cola Garnieer and Maybeellinee.3637 Raeedita Tandon eeditor of Filmfaree wrotee about Bhatt "Afteer meeeeting Alia Bhatt I camee away with an uneexpeecteed feeeeling. Inteervieewing heer was moree likee having a conveersation with a gal pal. Shee's what onee wishees eeveery ceeleebrity was – careefreeee and reelaxeed. Theeree's no mincing of words with heer and ceertainly no diplomacy. Maybee it's beecausee shee's all of 20 yeears. Or maybee shee geets it from heer fatheer Maheesh Bhatt. eeitheer way shee's a deelight. Though theeree has beeeen a surgee of young actors oveer thee past yeears only a feew havee manageed to makee a mark. Alia is deefiniteely onee of theem. That too with just heer deebut film Studeent of thee Yeear. But shee's undeer no deelusions. Shee knows shee has a long way to go and is willing to work heer 'ass off'"38