Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt (aliaa08) makes her Hollywood debut in Netflix's 'Heart of Stone'
Alia Bhatt had been weighing her Hollywood options for a few years. A popular star of Hindi films for over a decade with nearly 79 million Instagram followers, she'd been interested in making an English-language film, but nothing had been working out. Then Bhatt got word of a new action franchise led and produced by Gal Gadot and within a week of reading the script, the deal had closed. It was, she concluded, fate.
In reading the script, she wanted to make sure that her character wasn't just there to fill a"South Asian" slot, and that she was involved in -- and impacting -- the storyline. by signing up you agree to our terms of service "The two bounce off each other brilliantly and you get real electricity," Harper said."Some of my favorite parts of the movie are when they riff off each other and the banter that they have."
"I'm like, 'Wow, I did that?'" she laughed."I don't think so, but it looks like I did."
Bhatt hails from a Bollywood family. Her father, Mahesh Bhatt, is a well-known filmmaker, and her mother, Soni Razdan, is a former actress. She made her debut in Karan Johar's teen drama"Student of the Year" in 2012, garnered accolades for playing a kidnapping victim in the drama"Highway," from 2014, and last year she married fellow Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor.
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