Alia Bhatt, Early Life, Age, Family, Boyfriend, Personal Life, Affairs, Facts, Wiki, Career, Filmography, Biography

Birthday: March 15, 1993

Nationality: Indian, British

Famous: Actresses Indian Women

Sun Sign: Pisces

Age: 25 Years

Born Country: India

Born In: Mumbai

Famous As: Actress

Height: 1.55 M

Father: Mahesh Bhatt

Mother: Soni Razdan

Siblings: Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Bhatt

City, States, Provinces & Districts: Mumbai

Early life

Bhatt was born on 15 March 1993 in Mumbai to Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan. Her father is of Gujarati descent and her mother is of Kashmiri and German ancestry. Director Nanabhai Bhatt is her paternal grandfather. She has an elder sister, Shaheen (born 1988) and two half-siblings, Pooja Bhattand Rahul Bhatt. Actor Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit Suri are her maternal cousins, while producer Mukesh Bhatt is her uncle. Bhatt was educated at the Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai. She holds British citizenship.

Bhatt's first acting role was as a child artist in Sangharsh (1999), starring Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta where she played the younger version of Zinta's character.

Upcoming projects

As of August 2018, Bhatt has five upcoming projects. She has filmed opposite Ranveer Singh for Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy, a musical based on the life of rappers living in Mumbai's ghettos. She has also committed to star with Ranbir Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan in Ayan Mukerji's fantasy film trilogy, the first of which is named Brahmastra, and will collaborate once again with Abhishek Varman in the ensemble period drama Kalank, co-starring Madhuri Dixit, Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur, and Sanjay Dutt. In addition, Bhatt will star in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s as-yet untitled comedy-drama, and will feature in Johar's next directorial venture, a historical drama named Takht, which has an ensemble cast including Ranveer Singh and Kareena Kapoor.

Established actress (2016–present)

In 2016, Bhatt featured in three critically and commercially successful films. In her first release of the year, Bhatt played the supporting role of a lively young girl with a buried past in Kapoor & Sons, a drama about a dysfunctional family starring Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan. The film proved to be a critical and commercial success. Bhatt then took on the part of a poverty-stricken Bihari migrant in the Indian state of Punjab in Udta Punjab (2016), a crime drama about substance abuse from the director Abhishek Chaubey. The intense role marked a significant departure from the mostly light-hearted parts she had previously played, and in preparation, she watched documentaries on drug abuse and learned to speak a Bihari dialect. The film, co-starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, and Diljit Dosanjh, generated controversy when the Central Board of Film Certification deemed that the film represented Punjab in a negative light and demanded extensive censorship before its theatrical release. The Bombay High Court later cleared the film for exhibition with one scene cut. Bhatt's performance in the film was critically acclaimed, with several commentators believing that it was her best performance to that point. Raja Sen of Rediff.com wrote that Bhatt "commits to her accent and deals with the film's most unsavoury section, and is stunning during an incendiary speech that elevates the entire film to a whole other level."

In her final release, Bhatt continued to gain critical praise as she took on the role of an aspiring cinematographer whose life undergoes a series of changes after she consults a free-spirited psychologist (played by Shah Rukh Khan) in the coming-of-age film Dear Zindagi (2016). Writing for IndieWire, Anisha Jhaveri noted that Bhatt provides her character with "a three-dimensionality in which the somewhat annoying nature of millennial angst is balanced with an innocence that’s impossible not to recognize". The film proved a box office success as well, earning a total of ₹1.39 billion (US$20 million) worldwide. Udta Punjab and Dear Zindagi earned Bhatt several awards and nominations; for the former, she won the Screen Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, and for the latter, she received an a

dditional Best Actress nomination at Filmfare.

Other work

Bhatt has performed playback singing for the song "Sooha Saaha" in Highway (2014). A. R. Rahman, the composer of the film, invited her to his music school to undergo training. In 2014, she sang the unplugged version of the song "Samjhawan", for the composers Sharib-Toshi, in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. In 2016, she sang an alternate version of the song "Ikk Kudi", for the soundtrack of Udta Punjab, with her co-star Dosanjh.

In addition to acting in films, Bhatt has performed at the Filmfare, Screen and Stardust award ceremonies, and has also participated in a stage show in Hong Kong alongside Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra. In 2013, she performed at a charity event with Dhawan, Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor and Huma Qureshi to raise funds for the flood-affected victims of Uttarakhand. In August 2016, she performed in various cities of the United States as a part of the "Dream Team 2016" tour, alongside actors Dhawan, Malhotra, Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Parineeti Chopra, filmmaker Karan Johar, and singer Badshah.

In 2013, Bhatt took part in a campaign for PETA to raise awareness about homeless animals. In 2017, Bhatt launched an ecological initiative named CoExist to raise awareness about the welfare of street animals. The following year, she collaborated with Facebook Live for a campaign named Find Your Green, to campaign for environmentalism.

Bhatt designed her own women's clothing brand in 2014 for the online fashion portal Jabong.com and in 2018, she launched her own line of handbags for VIP Industries. She is also the celebrity endorser for a number of brands and products, including Coca-Cola, Garnier and Maybelline.

In the media

Bhatt has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014, peaking at the 21st position in 2017. That year, the magazine estimated her annual income to be ₹398.8 million (US$5.8 million) and listed her as one of the highest-paid celebrities in the country. Also in 2017, Bhatt was featured by Forbes Asia in their 30 Under 30 list.

Filmography

 List of awards and nominations received by Alia Bhatt

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1999	Sangharsh	Young Reet Oberoi	Special appearance
2012	Student of the Year	Shanaya Singhania	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
2014	Highway	Veera Tripathi	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2014	2 States	Ananya Swaminathan
2014	Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania	Kavya Pratap Singh
2014	Going Home	Herself	Short film
2014	Ugly	Young Shalini	Cameo appearance
2015	Shaandaar	Alia Arora
2016	Kapoor & Sons	Tia Malik
2016	Udta Punjab	Bauria/Mary Jane	Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2016	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil	DJ	Cameo appearance
2016	Dear Zindagi	Kaira	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2017	Badrinath Ki Dulhania	Vaidehi Trivedi	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2018	Welcome to New York	Herself	Cameo appearance
2018	Raazi	Sehmat Syed (born Khan)
2018	Zero	Herself	Special appearance
2019	Gully Boy	Zoya Ali	Post-production
2019	Kalank	TBA	Filming
2019	Brahmastra	TBA	Filming

Discography

Track	Year	Album	Ref(s)
"Sooha Saha"	2014	Highway
"Samjhawan Unplugged"	2014	Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
"Ikk Kudi (Club Mix)"	2016	Udta Punjab
"Love You Zindagi (Club Mix)"	2016	Dear Zindagi
"Ae Zindagi Gale Laga Le – 2"	2016	Dear Zindagi
"Humsafar (Alia's version)"	2017	Badrinath Ki Dulhania