Happy Birthday Alia Bhatt, Bollywood's Favourite Dulhania@24
Alia Bhatt, now, is amongst the most in-demand actresses in Bollywood. Alia has featured in diverse set of roles ranging from making her debut with a fashionista college student in Student Of The Year to playing a Bihari migrant in Udta Punjab. On her 24th birthday, let's take a look at her life and career so far
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Alia Bhatt, now, is amongst the most in-demand actresses in Bollywood. Alia has featured in diverse set of roles ranging from making her debut with a fashionista college student in Student Of The Year to playing a Bihari migrant in Udta Punjab. On her 24th birthday, let's take a look at her life and career so far.
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Alia was born on March 15, 1993 to producer-director Mahesh Bhatt and his second wife, actress Soni Razdan. She is the half-sister of actors Pooja Bhatt and Rahul Bhatt and the niece of producer Mukesh Bhatt. Actor Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit Suri are her cousins.
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Unlike her sister Pooja, there was no readymade launch pad in the form of a Mahesh Bhatt film for Alia. Instead, she made her debut as a lead actress in Karan Johar's 2012 hit Student Of The Year opposite fellow Bollywood rookies Siddharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan.
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Alia also began forging a parallel career as a playback singer in 2015. She made her debut as a singer with the song Sooha Saha in Highway. Composer A R Rahman was so impressed with her rendition that he insisted that she should continue her vocal training at his institute.
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On the same the day Highway released, the first look of Alia's next film 2 States was released on Twitter. The movie, produced by Karan Johar, is based on a bestselling novel written by Chetan Bhagat. Alia won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for her stellar performance in Highway.
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Alia was next seen opposite Varun Dhawan in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, where she played a bride-to-be from Ambala who decides to go to Delhi to arrange cash to buy for buying herself an expensive bridal designer lehenga. Alia sang the unplugged version of Main Tenu Samjhawan Ki in the film.
