Alia Bhatt bagged the role of Shanaya in Student Of The Year after auditioning alongside 400 potential candidates.
For the role of a rather stylist Shanaya in Student Of The Year, Alia Bhatt had to lose as much as 16 kgs in three months.
Alia Bhatt was the first choice to play the lead role in Bhoomi, however, the role eventually went to Aditi Rao Hydari.
As part of her preparation for the role of Sehmat, Alia Bhatt was made watched certain movies and short films recommended by Meghna Gulzar to help her work on her Hindi diction and to get the Hindustani dialect right.
Alia Bhatt was the first and only choice for the role of Sehmat in Raazi.
Alia Bhatt was on-board just after a brief narration of the movie, even before a single word was put on paper. Raazi is the first movie that Alia agreed to do that didn't have its script ready.
Playing the role of a spy in Raazi, Alia Bhatt, as part of her preparation for the role, learnt the Morse code.
For the first time in her career, Alia Bhatt will be seen doing action scenes in Raazi.
Apart from being an actress, Alia Bhatt is quite an artist and spends her free time making charcoal paintings.
Asin was the initial choice to play the lead role in Raabta, however, she turned the role down since she did not want to work after being married. The role was then offered to Alia Bhatt, who opted out of the movie due to delays and date issues. It was then that Kriti Sanon was approached to play the lead role.
Alia Bhatt has partnered with the Mumbai-based fashion startup StyleCracker.
Alia Bhatt founded her own ecological initiative calling it CoExist, which works towards and highlights the issues of animal and ecological welfare.
If the gossip mills are to be believed, Alia Bhatt is in a relationship with her Student of the Year co-star, Siddharth Malhotra. Both have neither confirmed or denied the relationship.
She was also rumored to be in a relationship with Varun Dhawan during the filming of Student of the Year.
It was rumored that Arjun Kapoor was in a relationship with his 2 States co-star Alia Bhatt and his Tevar co-star Sonakshi Sinha.