1. Alia Bhatt is a British actress of Indian descent who predominantly works in Hindi films.
68 Facts About Alia Bhatt
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Alia Bhatt won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for playing a kidnapping victim in the road drama Highway and went on to establish herself with starring roles in several romantic films produced by Johar's studio Dharma Productions.
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Alia Bhatt won Filmfare Awards for Best Actress for playing a victim of drug abuse in the crime drama Udta Punjab, an undercover spy in the thriller Raazi, a possessive girlfriend in the musical drama Gully Boy, and the title role of a prostitute in the biopic Gangubai Kathiawadi.
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Alia Bhatt founded an ecological initiative, CoExist, in 2017, a production company, Eternal Sunshine Productions, in 2019, and a sustainable clothing brand, Ed-a-Mamma, in 2022.
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Alia Bhatt has sung eight of her film songs, including the single "Samjhawan Unplugged" in 2014.
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Alia Bhatt is married to actor Ranbir Kapoor, with whom she has a daughter.
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Alia Bhatt was born into the Alia Bhatt family on 15 March 1993 in Bombay, India.
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Alia Bhatt is a daughter of Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and British actress Soni Razdan.
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Alia Bhatt's father is of Gujarati descent, and her mother is of Kashmiri-Pandit and German-British ancestry.
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Alia Bhatt has an elder sister, Shaheen, and two half-siblings, Pooja and Rahul Bhatt.
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Actor Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit Suri are her paternal cousins, while producer Mukesh Alia Bhatt is her uncle.
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Alia Bhatt said that as a child, she "didn't miss him as such because I did not really have him", adding that they developed a closer bond only when she became an actress.
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Alia Bhatt aspired to act from a young age, saying that she first realised her interest while rehearsing for the school choir in kindergarten.
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Alia Bhatt soon began dance lessons at Shiamak Davar's institute.
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Alia Bhatt's first acting role was at age five in her father's production venture Sangharsh, in which she briefly played the younger version of Preity Zinta's character.
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Alia Bhatt had her first leading role in 2012 with Karan Johar's teen film Student of the Year, alongside newcomers Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan.
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Alia Bhatt played a sophisticated teenage girl involved in a love triangle.
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Alia Bhatt found it in Imtiaz Ali's coming-of-age film Highway, in which she starred as a young woman from a wealthy family who, after being abducted, develops Stockholm syndrome towards her captor.
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Alia Bhatt took diction lessons to improve her Hindi, and was challenged by the emotional and physical requirements of the part.
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Alia Bhatt said that several aspects of her character's journey mirrored her own, as it was the first time she experienced situations that were different from her own privileged upbringing.
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The film underperformed at the box office, though Alia Bhatt won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and gained a Best Actress nomination at the ceremony.
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Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express was appreciative of Alia Bhatt, labelling her "easy and fresh and natural".
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Alia Bhatt played a girl who has an affair before her wedding, in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, directed by Shashank Khaitan.
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Alia Bhatt next took on the part of a poor Bihari migrant in Udta Punjab, a crime drama about substance abuse from writer-director Abhishek Chaubey.
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The film was shot entirely in a span of 48 days and Alia Bhatt found herself emotionally drained by the experience.
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Alia Bhatt launched her own production company named Eternal Sunshine Productions in early 2019.
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Alia Bhatt attended acting workshops to learn Bambaiya Hindi to enable her to improvise on set.
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Gully Boy won a record 13 Filmfare Awards, and Alia Bhatt was awarded with her career's third Best Actress trophy.
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Alia Bhatt watched the films Mughal-e-Azam and Umrao Jaan to learn the body language of women from the era; to better her Urdu-speaking skills, she watched the Pakistani television series Zindagi Gulzar Hai.
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Alia Bhatt next starred in Sadak 2, a sequel to her father's crime film Sadak, which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India, could not be released theatrically and instead streamed on Disney+ Hotstar.
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The death of Sushant Singh Rajput sparked a debate on nepotism in the Hindi film industry; his fans blamed Alia Bhatt for being one of the beneficiaries of nepotism and for once speaking dismissively of Rajput on Johar's chat show Koffee with Karan.
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Alia Bhatt portrayed the title role of a prostitute in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's biopic Gangubai Kathiawadi, which premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Cultural professor Rachel Dwyer noted, "Meena Kumari was a heroine of the post-Independence cinema [just as] Alia Bhatt is of today's post-Bollywood".
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Alia Bhatt next starred as a victim of domestic abuse in the Netflix black comedy film Darlings, which marked her first production venture under her company Eternal Sunshine Productions.
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Simon Abrams of the TheWrap bemoaned that Alia Bhatt had been underused in a poorly written part, and disliked her chemistry with Kapoor.
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Alia Bhatt reunited with Johar for his directorial, the romantic comedy Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, co-starring Ranveer Singh.
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Alia Bhatt won her fifth Best Actress award at Filmfare, tying the record for most wins in the category with Nutan and Kajol.
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Alia Bhatt expanded to American cinema in the same year with Heart of Stone, a Netflix spy film co-starring Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan.
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Critics panned the film; IndieWire's Kate Erbland wrote that Alia Bhatt "sells a role that is thinly written to the point of insult".
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Alia Bhatt attached herself as an executive producer on the crime drama series Poacher for its streaming release on Amazon Prime Video in 2024, after it premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
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Alia Bhatt said that she was drawn to the protective character due to the recent birth of her daughter.
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Alia Bhatt has performed playback singing for the song "Sooha Saaha" in Highway.
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Alia Bhatt reunited with Dosanjh in 2024 for the song "Chal Kudiye" from the soundtrack of Jigra.
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Alia Bhatt has performed on stage at the Filmfare, Screen and Stardust award ceremonies, and has participated in a stage show in Hong Kong alongside Dhawan and Malhotra.
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Alia Bhatt participated in a charity event with Dhawan, Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor and Huma Qureshi to raise funds for the victims of the 2013 North India floods.
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Alia Bhatt performed in various cities of America for the "Dream Team 2016" tour, alongside Johar, the actors Dhawan, Malhotra, Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, and Parineeti Chopra, and the singer Badshah.
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Alia Bhatt took part in a campaign for PETA in 2013 to raise awareness on homeless animals.
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Alia Bhatt joined a charity fundraiser in 2015 organised by Cuddles Foundation for cancer-stricken children, and in 2017, she performed in a fashion show to support the cause.
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Alia Bhatt collaborated with Facebook for a campaign named Find Your Green, to campaign for environmentalism.
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In 2018, Alia Bhatt joined Aamir Khan's Paani Foundation; she visited Latur, a village in Maharashtra, and helped Khan with on-ground watershed management work.
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Alia Bhatt launched an initiative named Mi Wardrobe is Su Wardrobe, through which she auctioned clothes from her personal wardrobe to provide electricity to a village in Karnataka.
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Alia Bhatt collaborated with the Indian arm of the NGO ActionAid in 2021 to provide essentials to underprivileged communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Under MiSu, Alia Bhatt sold the saris she wore in her film Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani to raise funds for women's healthcare.
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Alia Bhatt designed her own clothing line for women in 2014 for the online fashion portal Jabong.
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Alia Bhatt is an investor in the beauty company Nykaa and in India's first biomaterial startup Phool.
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Alia Bhatt has frequently combated negative attention, including online trolling, for benefiting from nepotism within the Hindi film industry.
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Johar defended his admiration of Alia Bhatt by saying that he feels parental towards her.
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Journalist Malavika Sangghvi noted that by making fun of herself, Alia Bhatt had "managed to counter all her critics and, in fact, endear herself to them".
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Early in her career, Alia Bhatt was reluctant to discuss her personal life, stating that she would never publicly talk about her relationships.
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Alia Bhatt took note of how she had to portray herself as subscribing to existing social mores of domestic servitude to not alienate a largely patriarchal audience.
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In 2024, Alia Bhatt revealed that she was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Alia Bhatt said that she does not deconstruct her craft, believing that "I'd become a machine rather than a human being", adding that she chooses contrasting projects to "satisfy my extremely impatient, monotony-abhorring kind of brain".
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Alia Bhatt has appeared in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list since 2014, peaking at the eighth position in 2019.
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Alia Bhatt was listed in first place in The Times of Indias "50 Most Desirable Women" list of 2018, and she was named the "Sexiest Asian Woman" by the UK magazine Eastern Eye in 2019.
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In 2020, Alia Bhatt was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Alia Bhatt won the National Film Award for Best Actress for Gangubai Kathiawadi.
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Alia Bhatt received the Filmfare Award for Best Actress a record-tying five times for her roles in Udta Punjab, Raazi, Gully Boy, Gangubai Kathiawadi and Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, in addition to the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for Highway.
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Alia Bhatt won the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Actress in a Web Original Film for Darlings.