Born 15 March 1993) is a British-Indian actress and singer who has worked mainly in Bollywood films. Since 2016, she has been included in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list and in 2016, Forbes Asia's Thirty Under Thirty list.
Born into the Bhatt family, Alia is the daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Rajdan. She made her film debut in 1999 as a child artiste in Tanuja Chandra's Sangharsh. Later, as an adult actress, she started acting regularly in the romantic comedy Student of the Year (2012) directed by Karan Johar opposite Siddharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan; Which was a box office success that year. She has established herself in the Bollywood film industry as an actress by starring in a number of films produced by Johar's production company Dharma Productions, including Two States (2014), Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (2014), Dear Zindagi (2016) and Badrinath Ki Dulhania (including). In 2014, Bhatt's role as a teenager with Stockholm Syndrome in the Imtiaz Ali-directed highway street film received positive reviews from critics. She won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for the film and was nominated for Best Actress at the same event. In 2016, Bhatt won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role as a poverty-stricken immigrant in the flying Punjabi crime drama, and in 2016 for her role in the film Razi. She later starred in the highest grossing female-dominated Hindi films. In 2019, his highest grossing musical drama film Gali Boy was released. The film was selected from India in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 92nd Academy Awards.
In addition to starring in films, Bhatt has evolved his own style of clothing and handbags and founded an organization called Coexist as part of his ecological initiative. He has performed as a vocalist for six of his films, including the 2014 single "Samjhaon Unplugged", which he often performed on stage shows and concert tours. He also regularly participates in solo and group performances on stage.
Early life
Alia Bhatt was born on 15 March 1993 in Bombay, India (now Mumbai). [2] [3] [4] Her father was Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt and mother was actress Soni Rajdan. [2] Alia's parents were both Hindus, but their Both were converted to Islam at the time of their marriage. [5] According to their parents, Bhat and his sister Shaheen grew up as atheists. [6] From his father's side, he is of Gujarati descent. [10] [11] His nickname is Alu. [12] Indian director Nanavai Bhatt is his grandfather. Her elder sister, Shaheen (born 1986) is a writer; [13] and film actress and producer Pooja Bhatt is her half-sister and half-brother film actor Rahul Bhatt. [2] Actor Imran Hashmi and film director Mohit Suri are her cousins and producer Mukesh Bhatt is her Uncle. [5]
Bhatt graduated from the Jamabai Nursery School (IBDP) in Mumbai in 2011. [2] [14] Bhat is a British citizen by birth. [1] [15]
Early work and gaining fame
Alia Bhatt made her acting debut on the silver screen at the age of six, playing the role of a child artiste in 1999, starring in the Tanuja Chandra-directed drama Sangharsh. Bhatt co-starred in the film with Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta, where Bhatt played the childhood role of Zinta. [17] In 2012, Bhatt made his film debut in the lead role opposite Siddharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan in the Karan Johar-directed film Student of the Year. [18] In the film, Shanaya is a sophisticated teenager who falls in love with Dhawan's character and at one stage also falls in love with another character Malhotra. Bollywood star Taran Adarsh mentions Bhatt's performance, "Alia's character Kavi Khushi Kavi Gham ... (2001) is reminiscent of Kareena Kapoor's performance in the film. Aishwarya loves to show off and show love. Extremely scatterbrained, Alia has made her debut in a super-confident character. "[18] [19] Student of the Year was a commercially successful film, grossing about ₹ 600 million (US $ 9.45 million) at the box office in 2012. [20]
He made a name for himself in Bollywood with the release of three of Bhatt's films in 2014. [21] [22] Bhatt's performance as a teenager with Stockholm Syndrome after the abduction received positive reviews from film critics. [23] She has grown up with that character. She is truly one of the most promising newcomers in Hindi cinema. "[24] The film manages to impress you. "[25] Although the film failed to do well at the box office, [26] Bhatt won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and was nominated for Best Actress at the same event. [26]
In 2014, Bhatt starred opposite Abhishek Varman in the 2 States film co-produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala opposite Arjun Kapoor. Released in April 2014, the film is a film version of Chetan Bhagat's novel of the same name. Where the story is told of two students from IIM Ahmedabad who had trouble persuading their parents to approve of their relationship. Here, Bhatt learned the Tamil language to play the role of Ananya Swaminatham, a Tamil girl. [29] Critics thanked Ali for her performance and told Rediff.com that Bhatt "really grew up in her character." [30] Shuvra Gupta of the Indian Express said, Bhatt was "wonderful" and "simple and lively and normal". [31]
Bhatt's latest film released in 2014 was the romantic comedy Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, directed by Shashank Khaitan, in which he played the role of Kavya Pratap Singh, a Punjabi girl who fell in love with a stranger shortly before her marriage. The film is a tribute to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and was produced by Karan Johar. Bhatt co-starred Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Shukla. [32] Although Mint's Nandini found indifference in the character played by Ramnath Bhatt. [33] [34] She won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for Best Actress. [27] [26]
Also in 2014, Bhatt starred in a short film about women's safety called Going Home, directed by Bikash Bhalla. [36]
In 2015, Bhatt starred opposite Shahid Kapoor in Bikash Bhal's Shandar, in which he played the role of an insomniac. [36] [36] Failed to do that in the film ". [39] Shandar made little money at the box office. [40]
Established Actress (present)
In the first of Bhatt's three released films in 2016, Bhatt played the role of a lively young woman opposite Siddharth Malhotra in Fawad Khan in Shakun Batra's Kapoor & Sons, a drama about an immobile family. The film garnered critical acclaim as well as commercial success. [41] [42] In the same year, Bhatt played the role of a poor Bihari immigrant from the Indian state of Punjab in the film Urta Punjab. It is a crime drama film directed by Abhishek Chaubey about drug abuse. Some of the notable parts of the character were previously performed by Bhatt in his various films, and in preparation he learned to watch various documentaries on drugs and speak in Bihari dialect. [43] The board noted that the film negatively represented Punjab and demanded widespread censorship of the film against its release in theaters. [44] Commentators believe it was his best performance. [46] Raja Sen of Rediff.com wrote that Bhatt was "determined by his accent and able to adapt to the most unpleasant chapters of the film". [46]
Despite receiving critical acclaim, Bhatt played the role of an aspiring photographer in Gauri Sindh's Dear Zindagi (2016) drama, in which she starred opposite Shah Rukh Khan. [46] Has developed into a situation where "a three-dimensional form has been given that has become so consistent that it is hard to identify." [49] Flying Punjab and Dear Zindagi helped Bhatt win multiple awards and nominations; She previously won a Screen Award and a Filmfare Award for Best Actress, and was later nominated for a Filmfare Best Actress Award. [51] [52] [53]
In 2016, Bhatt reappeared on the screen in a romantic comedy starring Badrinath Ki Dulhania opposite Varun Dhawan, directed by Khaitan. [54] . Rachel Saltz of the New York Times notes the film's statement on gender equality and writes, "[Vat] effortlessly reflects that admirable thing without falling into the clutches of strong heroines: she's a modern woman." [55] Bhatt was nominated for another Filmfare Best Actress Award. In Meghna Gulzar's spy thriller Razi (2016), Bhat Sehmat plays the lead role of a Kashmiri spy who married a Pakistani army officer (played by Vicky Kaushal). The film, set against the backdrop of the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, was adapted into a novel by Harinder Sikkar Calling Sehmat. [56] [56] Bhatt won another Filmfare Best Actress Award for the film. [59]
Bhatt launched his own production company, Eternal Sunshine Productions, in 2019. [60] His first film appearance that year was opposite Ranbir Singh in Zoya Akhtar's Gali Boy, a musical film inspired by the life of Indian street rapper Divine and Nayez. To improve his background, he took part in an acting workshop to learn a ghetto dialect. [72] The film premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. [63] Lee Marshall of Screen International commented that "this is Bhatt's sharp acting, which carries a mixture of the most successfully distorted humor, romance and social commentary in the Gali Boy story". [75] Became Bhatt's next highest grossing film. [6] The film, set in the 1940s before the partition of India, features Dhawan and Bhatt as a couple, and in preparation she learned the body language of women of that era from the films Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and Umrao Jaan (1971) and mastered Urdu. To achieve this, he watched the Pakistani television series Zindegi Gulzar Hai. [6] The Hindu's humility Joshi lamented that the film focused on the seemingly flamboyant glory of the story but did not realize how well Bhatt matched the character. [69] Fails to earn. [60]
Upcoming projects
As of December 2019, Bhat has six upcoming projects. The first is Ayan Mukherjee's fantasy film Trilogy Brahmastra, in which he will star alongside Ranbir Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan. [71] [72] [63] [64] [75] And Telugu language RRR period film NT Rama Rao Jr., along with Ram Charan and Ajay Devgn will be seen on screen; [6] Both films will be released in July 2020. Alia will play the role of Gangubai, a gangster from Kamathipura brothel, in Gangubai Kathiawari, a biopic directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, based on S Hussain Zaidi's Mafia Queens of Mumbai. He will be seen on screen with Vicky Kaushal, Ranbir Singh and Kareena Kapoor. [71]
Other actions
Bhatt has sung the song "Soha Soha" in the movie Highway (2014) as a playback artist. The film's music director AR Rahman invited him to train at his music school. [63] In 2014, he also sang the unplugged version of the song "Samjhawa" for composer Shahrib-Toshi in the film Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. [64] In 2016, he co-starred. Flying with Dosandhi sang an alternate version of the song "Ik Kuri" for the soundtrack of the Punjab film. [65]
After making his film debut, Bhatt performed at various awards ceremonies such as Filmfare, Screen, Stardust, etc., and participated in international events in Hong Kong with Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra. [6] Along with Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor and Huma Qureshi, she performed at a special event. [6] Served on the "Dream Team 2017" tour. [6]
In 2013, Bhat served as a Pita campaign model for homeless animals. [69] In 2016, she launched an environmental initiative called Coexist to raise awareness about the welfare of path animals. [90] He collaborated on a campaign called Find Your Green. [91]
In 2014, Bhatt launched her own style of women's clothing with online fashion portal Jabong.com; He described the collection as "very simple" and "very mine". [92] [93] In 2016, he launched his own line of handbags for VIP Industries. [94] He was also involved in promoting various brands, including Coca-Cola, Garnier and Maybelline. [95] [96]
He was ranked 21st in the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list in 2016, 12th in 2016 and 8th in 2019. [96] He was included in the Forbes Asia Thirty Under Thirty list in 2016. [98] [99] [100] [101] That year, according to Forbes, Bhatt's annual income was estimated at 56.3 million (US $ 6.94 million), making her the second highest-earning actress in India. [99] 102] In the same year, in the Indian edition of GQ, he was listed among the 50 most influential young people in the country and was credited with "maintaining a balance between big-budget, all-star blues and more script-based films". [103] Top of the Times of India's list of "50 Most Wanted Women". [104]
Filmfare Editor Redita Tandon writes about Bhatt, "After meeting Alia Bhatt, I came across an unexpected feeling. Interviewing her was like a conversation with a girl friend. Of course there is no minimalist or diplomatic attitude. Maybe it is because he is in his twenties. Or maybe he learned it from his father, Mahesh Bhatt. However, he is lively. Definitely one of them. This was proved by his debut film, Student of the Year. He knows there is a long way to go and he is passionate about work. "[105]
Despite frequent romance with co-stars, Bhatt denies it. [107] He mentions Malhotra, Dhawan, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor and Karan Johar as his friends in Bollywood.
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