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When Alia Bhatt auditioned for Student Of The Year by enacting scene from Ranbir Kapoor’s Wake Up Sid, watch

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Alia Bhatt has spent just a bit over 9 years in Bollywood, and has now emerged as one of the crucial bankable stars. From taking part in the over-the-top Shanaya in her debut movie Student Of The Year in 2012, Alia has carried hard-hitting movies on her shoulders, together with Dear Zindagi and Raazi.
It has a journey filled with ups and downs, and all of it started when Alia auditioned for the Student Of The Year audition, by studying traces from her now-boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor’s movie, Wake Up Sid. She re-enacted the scene the place Konkona Sen Sharma and Ranbir meet for the primary time at a university occasion.

Apart from this, Alia additionally danced to the track Bahara, from Sonam Kapoor’s movie, I hate Luv Stories, one thing that later caught producer-filmmaker Karan Johar’s eye. In an outdated interview, he recalled, “There was this young girl, straight out of school in Mumbai, and she just danced to Bahara, danced away. I knew there was something about this girl that would just connect with India.” In truth, Karan Johar later known as Alia his ‘new Kareena’.

In considered one of her first interviews to Zoom, Alia recalled that she didn’t wish to have it really easy, simply due to her filmi background. “Out of 500 girls, I was the lucky one to make it.” Asked what she had that Karan Johar appreciated, she answered that it was her ‘filminess’. “I was a big round ball when I auditioned, and I did all the jhatkas and matkas, so I gave all the expressions. I am happy that he saw that in me.”
Karan Johar, in an interview with PTI in 2012, revealed that there have been 400 different actors who auditioned for her function. “We screen tested over 400 girls from across Mumbai and other cities. This is when Niranjan Iyengar told me that Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter Alia was raring to go and she could just be the right fit for the film. I did her test and was convinced that she had this X factor that could work for the film,” he stated.
Alia Bhatt has a protracted record of initiatives lined up for 2022, together with Darlings, Gangubai Kathiawadi and RRR.