Alia Bhatt

At 31 years old, Alia Bhatt has this physical status:

Alia Bhatt (born 15 March 1993) is an actress and singer of Indian origins and British citizenship who works in Hindi films.

Bhatt is one of India's highest-paid actresses, recipient of several accolades, including three Filmfare Awards.

She has been on Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014 and was highlighted by Forbes Asia in their 2017 Top 30 Under 30 list. She is the niece of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan, who was born into the Bhatt family.

Bhatt made her acting debut as an infant in Sangharsh in 1999, she was the first leading role in Karan Johar's teen drama Student of the Year (2012).

She went on to make her acting debut in a number of films directed by Johar's Dharma Productions, including the romances 2 States (2014), Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (2014), Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017), and the coming-of-age drama Dear Zindagi (2016).

In the crime drama Udta Punjab (2016) and a spy in the thriller Raazi (2018), Bhatt received the Filmfare Critics Award for best actor in the road drama Highway (2014) and two Best Actress awards.

The former appeared in one of Hindi cinema's top-earning female-led films, and her highest-grossing debut was with the musical drama Gully Boy (2019). Bhatt has developed her own line of clothes and handbags in addition to being in film and is the cofounder of the environmentally conscious initiative CoExist.

She has appeared in six of her film recordings, including the single "Samjhawan Unplugged" in 2014, and she appears in stage shows and concert tours.

Early life

Alia Bhatt was born in 1993 into the Bhatt family, to Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan. Her father is of Gujarati descent, and her mother is of Kashmiri Pandit and British German descent. She holds British citizenship. Shaheen is her elder sister, and Pooja and Rahul Bhatt, two half-siblings. Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit Suri are her paternal cousins, while producer Mukesh Bhatt is her uncle. Bhatt was educated at the Jamnabai Narsee School but she dropped out from her 12th grade to pursue a career in acting.

"I had a rather grounded and modest upbringing," Bhatt wrote about her childhood. I didn't get the pleasures that people assume I would have had because I am Mahesh Bhatt's daughter. Growing up, she didn't have a close relationship with her father; Razdan has said that she raised her children mainly as a single parent because her husband did not have a lot of interest in their lives. Bhatt aspired to be an actress from a young age, but she first realized it when rehearsing for the school choir in kindergarten. She began dancing lessons at Shiamak Davar's academy right away. In her father's production venture Sangharsh (1999), she appeared in age five, in which she briefly appeared in a younger version of Preity Zinta's character. "I don't remember much of the shooting," Bhatt said after speaking about her experience. I would go to the restaurants only for the food."

Personal life and public image

In 2018, Bhatt began dating actor Ranbir Kapoor, her co-star in Brahm's (2022). In a private ceremony at their apartment in Mumbai, she married him on April 14-2022. The couple revealed their pregnancy in June 2022.

Bhatt was included on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list of 2017 and in their 100 Digital Stars list of 2020. She has been on Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014, with her debuting in ninth place in 2019. The magazine estimated her annual income to be 592 million (US$7.4 million) and named her as the country's highest-paid actress.

The Indian version of GQ featured her as one of the country's top young people in 2018 and 2019, and she was praised for "balancing a strike between big-budget, all-star blowouts, and more script-oriented films." In the Times of India's "50 Most Desirable Women" list of 2018, Bhatt was ranked first. YouGov, a market research company headquartered in India, named her ninth most popular celebrity in the same year. Femina is a magazine published in the United States. In both 2019 and 2021, the magazine Femina included her in a list of female achievers. In 2022, she ranked at 97th place in The Indian Express' list of the Most Influential Indians. Time magazine named her with the TIME 100 Impact Award in the same year.

Bhatt is also the celebrity endorser for a number of brands and products, including Coca-Cola, Garnier, and Maybelline. In 2019, Duff & Phelps estimated her brand value to be US$36.5 million, the eighth highest-selling Indian celebrity. She held the seventh and sixth positions in the next two years, respectively, and in 2022, she ranked fourth in the fourth position with a brand value of US$68.1 million.

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Acting career

Bhatt appeared in Karan Johar's student film Student of the Year in 2012, alongside Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan. After losing 16 kilograms, she auditioned with 500 girls and was rejected. She played a mature teenage girl involved in a love triangle. Anupama Chopra of Hindustan Times noted the similarities between her character and Kareena Kapoor's role in Johar's Kabhi Gham (2001), but also noted that her appearance was "without the killer attitude." Lisa Tsering of The Hollywood Reporter dismissed her as "a washout." Not only is she inelegant in the dance numbers, but her expressions are limited; and her digital retouching of her face throughout the film is a disconcert. The year's student of the Year brought in 960 million (US$12 million) at the box office, marking a commercial triumph.

Bhatt was keen to play a bigger part in the year's critical reaction to Student of the Year. She discovered it in Imtiaz Ali's road film Highway (2014), starring a lonely teenage girl who suffers Stockholm syndrome after being kidnapped after being arrested. She took diction lessons to enhance her Hindi, but was confronted with the part's emotional and physical demands. Ali shot the film sequencely, and several scenes were improvised on set based on Bhatt's reactions. Because this was the first time she encountered situations that were different from her own privileged upbringing, she has said that several aspects of her character's journey mirrored her own. Ronnie Scheib of Variety paid attention to her "endearingly cockeyed perf" and praised her for her role's "bringing an undercurrent sadness and wistful intelligence." The film disregarded at the box office, though Bhatt received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and also received a Best Actress nomination at the event. She appeared in Vikas Bahl's short film titled Going Home, which was the next step forward.

Bhatt starred in the romantic films 2 States and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, continuing her collaboration with Johar's company, Dharma Productions. (both 2014) The former was a recreation of Chetan Bhagat's book of the same name and it concerned two management students who had trouble convincing their parents of their marriage. She learned to speak Tamil with assistance from a tutor for her role as a headstrong Tamil girl. Bhatt's Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express applauded her appreciation, calling her a "surprise" and "easy and natural." In Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, directed by Shashank Khaitan, she played the titular Punjabi girl who has an affair before her wedding with a flirtatious Punjabi boy, Rakesh, who was described as a tribute to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) by Johar. Rohit Khilnani wrote for India Today that Bhatt had delivered "one of her best performances so far," although Nandini Ramnath Mint said she was "more comfortable venting out her emotions through dialogue and actions." Both films were commercially lucrative, with each grossing over 1 billion (US$13 million) worldwide. She began her career in 2014 and excelled in her achievements.

For the romantic comedy Shaandaar, Bhatt reunited with Bahl. The film, which was released in 2015, stars Shahid Kapoor and Bhatt as insomniacs who fell in love at a destination wedding. Kunal Guha of Mumbai Mirror slammed the film, saying that Bhatt "socks life into her character but that no one is invested in this film." Shaandaar did not do well commercially. She debuted in 2016 as a supporting actress in Shakun Batra's ensemble drama Kapoor & Sons, starring Malhotra and Fawad Khan, which was a critical and commercial success.

In Udta Punjab (2016), a crime drama about drug use by writer-director Abhishek Chaubey, Bhatt took on the role of a poor Bihari migrant. The intense role marked a departure from the mostly light-hearted roles she had performed before, and she watched documentaries on drug use and learned to speak a Bihari dialect. The film caused controversies when the Central Board of Film Certification determined that it represented Punjab in a pessimistic light and demanded extensive censorship before its release. With a single scene cut, the Bombay High Court later approved the film for display. Bhatt's appearance at the Theatre of Bhatt was highly praised. Raja Sen of Rediff.com wrote that she "commits to her accent and addresses the film's most unsavoury section," and is especially striking during an incendiary address that elevates the entire film to a whole different level. In Gauri Shinde's coming-of-age film Dear Zindagi (2016), Bhatt played a troubled young woman who consults with a therapist (played by Shah Rukh Khan). Anisha Jhaveri, a writer for IndieWire, praised her for "delivering millennial angst with "a three-dimensionality." Bhatt's recognition for Udta Punjab and Dear Zindagi, as the former actress and director of Filmfare received both the Screen Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress; for the latter, she received a separate Best Actress nomination at Filmfare.

Bhatt's new film, Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017), reunited her with Khaitan and Dhawan, continued with a string of hit films. It tells the tale of an independent young woman (Bhatt) who refuses to adhere to patriarchical ideals from her chauvinistic fiancée (Dhawan). "Without ever falling into the clichés of spunky Bollywood heroines, [Bhatt] seamlessly embodies the admirable thing: a modern woman," Rachel Saltz of The New York Times praised the film's gender equality. She was nominated for Best Actress by the Filmfare Awards in another year. Bhatt appeared in Meghna Gulzar's spy drama Raazi (2018), a Kashmiri spy married to a Pakistani army soldier. The film, which takes place during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, is an adaptation of Harinder Sikka's book Calling Sehmat. "Bhatt" in the role, Anna M. Vetticad of Firstpost found him to be "stupendous," she said, adding that "the young actor was already "showing the maturity and vigor of a veteran on camera." Raazi was one of the highest-grossing female-led Hindi films, and Box Office India recognized Bhatt as the country's most popular contemporary actress. At Filmfare, she received her second Best Actress award.

In early 2019, Bhatt founded Eternal Sunshine Productions, a Bhatt-owned production company. In Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy, she was opposite Ranveer Singh, a musical inspired by the lives of street rappers Divine and Naezy. To be able to improvise on set, she attended acting workshops to learn a ghetto dialect. At the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, the film premiered. Lee Marshall opined that "it's Bhatt's excellent work that carries the most convincing blend of wry humour, passion, and social comment that Gully Boy essays." The film debuted as Bhatt's highest-grossing debut to that point, with global earnings of over 2.3 billion (US$30 million). Gully Boy received a record 13 Filmfare Awards, and Bhatt received her third Best Actress award in her career.

Kalank (2019), Bhatt's highest-budget film to date, was the ensemble period drama. It was set in the 1940s, decades before India's partition, with Dhawan and her as star-crossed lovers. She watched the films Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and Umrao Jaan (1981) to learn the body language of women from the 1980s; to improve her Urdu-speaking skills, she watched the Pakistani television series Zindagi Gulzar Hai. Shubhra Gupta moaned that she was "watchable, if more familiar." At the box office, the film did not do well. Bhatt appeared in Sadak 2 (2020), a sequel to her father's crime film Sadak (1991), but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the film could not be broadcast live and instead streamed on Disney+ Hotstar. Sushant Singh Rajput's death sparked discussion about nepotism in Hindi cinema; his followers chastised Bhatt for being one of nepotism's beneficiaries and for briefly dismissing Rajput with Karan on Johar's chat show Koffee with Karan. On YouTube, where it became the second most disliked video, there was a vote for the film's trailer. Bhatt's results "by her own high standards" were dismissed by critics, and Pallabi Dey Purkayastha of The Times of India dismissed her film as "merely average."

In Sanjay Leela Bhansali's crime drama Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022), which premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, Bhatt appeared as the titular prostitute. She investigated the career of actress Meena Kumari and watched films about sex, such as Mandi (1983) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). "The actress puts all doubts to rest with a brilliant performance," Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV opined, commenting on media rumors that she had been miscast in such a vocal role. In addition, Stutee Ghosh of The Quint praised her for playing the role with a "rare combination of innocence and jaw clenching rage." It was her third release to gross over 2.2 billion (US$25 million) worldwide. In a list of the best big-screen performances of all time, The Guardian included her portrayal.

Bhatt appeared in a brief role in the Telugu-language period film RRR, starring N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan. It became India's fourth highest-grossing film. In the Netflix black comedy film Darlings, she starred as a victim of domestic violence for the first time, which was her first film venture under her company Eternal Sunshine Productions. Namrata Joshi found her to be "fully at home in the role of an ordinary Mumbai chawl girl." In its first weekend on Netflix, the film became the most watched Indian film globally. Bhatt starred opposite Ranbir Kapoor in Ayan Mukerji's fantasy film Brahma: Part One – Shiva in her final release of 2022. The film was shot for five years in the first half of a planned trilogy. The film, which was made on a budget of 4.1 billion (US$51 million), is one of India's most expensive films. In a poorly written portion, Simon Abrams of TheWrap bemoaned that Bhatt had been underused. It earned 4.25 billion (US$53 million) to be the highest-grossing Hindi film of 2022.

In his debut, Bhatt will reunite with Johar in the romantic comedy Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, co-starring Ranveer Singh. She will also appear in Farhan Akhtar's buddy film Jee Le Zaraa alongside Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan in her first Hollywood film release, as well as Priyanka Kaif and Katrina Kaif in Farhan Akhtar's Jee Le Zaraa.

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