Alia Bhatt’s father, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, talked highly of his daughter following her outstanding performance in Gangubai Kathiawadi in a recent interview with Barkha Dutt’s Mojo Story. Mahesh Bhatt, when asked about her profession, stated, “I think what is unique about Alia Bhatt is .. she has an unquenchable thirst to go higher and higher. She realises that the talent comes from a different part of herself. So she has been able to do this tightrope walking of keeping the locomotive of going ahead and fuelling that but also tremendous empathy and a heart as open as a child. She soaks in life.”
Alia Bhatt has given multiple outstanding performances, according to Mahesh Bhatt, but he wonders where she learned to nail each of her personalities. He went on to say that Alia has an insatiable desire to achieve greater heights, but she recognises that her skill stems from a different part of her. The director also stated that it is because of this capacity that she is able to manage her goal to succeed with her ability to stay empathic as a youngster. “What astounds me about her in Gangubai is that she is a Juhu girl who was hardly exposed to the film culture. Where did she pick all this up?” the filmmaker said. Alia’s portrayal as a tribal girl in Udta Punjab was another surprise.
Alia Bhatt, as a doting father, added, “Sooner or later you get power-drunk and so far we are very happy that she has her feet firmly rooted on the ground. She knows she has to yet go to the depths of her potential.”
When asked if there’s anything that worries him about Alia Bhatt, Mahesh confessed that he once asked Amitabh Bachchan a similar question.
“I asked this question to Mr Bachchan. He had written a very generous letter to her after he saw some film of hers. I was very moved by it. Even after Gangubai, he wrote a very generous letter. I think it is the kind of letter that only actors who would make it in the movies dream about. I asked him, “Sooner or later, we all peak and burn out. Don’t you think Alia will inevitably reach there someday at that crossroad?” Mahesh Bhatt said.
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