Alia Bhatt made her Bollywood debut with typical Bollywood fare - Student of the Year. Her second film, Highway, however, was quite a brave choice for a newcomer. The film is based on the Stockholm syndrome.
It tells the story of a young woman who discovers freedom after being kidnapped. ADVERTISEMENT As a guest on Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist , Alia had spoken at length about how she pursued Imtiaz Ali as she was keen to work with the director. However, Imtiaz insists that’s not exactly how it happened.
In fact, he wanted to cast an older woman in Highway, but changed his mind after meeting Alia Bhatt. Describing his first meeting with Alia, Imtiaz told Mid-day he met her when she had come with her mother Soni Razdan to the screening of Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana. “It was a very good film.
It was the screening of that film where I had seen her mum. I went to meet her, and there was this girl standing, wearing a skirt and she was looking like a young woman..
. her film Student of the Year had been released. I had not seen it.
” “Then I started talking to her and I realized there was some warmth in her, her emotional quotient was very high. I was very drawn to talk to her and she was talking very nicely. In fact, I steered the conversation towards Highway without actually telling her.
I started to talk to her about deeper things, like home and society, just to draw her out into that kind of...
and I started to hear her true voice. This is the kind of voice that doesn�.