Alia Bhatt has truly carved a niche for herself in the Hindi film industry ever since she made her debut with Karan Johar’s Student of the Year in 2012. However, her father and veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt thinks otherwise, but also has wonderful things to say about her next few choices of films. In an interview with India Today, Bhatt said, “I didn’t understand when did this girl, this Juhu girl exposed to our home, where we live like a normal family.
.. How did this Juhu girl get the accent right of an Adivasi from Chhattisgarh.
It was amazing. I was astounded by that.” He continued, “Her raw power, and her ability to get into such a vulnerable space, and bare her heart.
Highway and Udta Punjab...
It was a departure from that girl who was just a mannequin in Student of the Year. You see the evolution in your child also.” Mahesh Bhatt has always been known speaking his heart out and sharing his progressive thoughts without mincing his words.
In one of the old interviews, he shared how he got the best of both worlds from his parents and his mother got worried after he gave Muslim names to daughters Alia Bhatt and Shaheen. “I had the best of both worlds. My mother was a Shia Muslim, while my father was a janoi-clad man.
He never pretended to be secular. What’s very interesting, both (father and mother) retained their individual faiths. They were madly in love but neither indulged in the farce of wanting to do things the other way,” said Bhatt in an old interview as per HT.
The filmmaker recalled during the 1992 communal riots and added, “My mother always wore this big tika, and saree – she liked that kind of thing. But, at the same time, I could see that there was something she was hiding. She felt that her minority status would perhaps interfere with our day-to-day lives.
She was a little embarrassed when I flaunted my Muslim roots...
when I came to know about it. Yes, she was a little embarrassed about it. She was worried about me during the communal riots in 1992.
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