‘I’ve very high expectations from myself’

Alia Bhatt says that after doing backtoback challenging parts, she would like to take up a stressfree role

Last year, she completed a glorious five years in Bollywood, and the sixth year started off on a “super busy note” for Alia Bhatt. We caught up with her about her next, Raazi, her working style, link-up rumours and more.

This year you have worked on Raazi, Gully Boy, Brahmastra, and now you are working on Kalank in a backtoback manner. How are you managing time?

It is a crazy time for me. This is the most that I have worked continuously. I have worked every day since January without even a single day off. But I am not complaining. I am learning a lot about myself, my work, and I am understanding new things as well as meeting new people too. We are just in the fifth month of 2018 but it feels I have already gone through the whole year (laughs).

Are you nervous about carrying a film on your shoulders?

I feel a film is made up of many characters, so it is not just me. But yes, one can say that Raazi is my solo film of sorts after some time. I would not say that it’s completely my film. It is very difficult without your coactors to bring a character to life. The nervousness is there, regardless of a film being big, difficult or small. I will always be nervous but it’s a different

kind of nervousness.

Be it Highway (2014), Udta Punjab (2016) or Raazi, do such intense roles take a toll on you?

I don’t know for sure but I think it does. I am feeling very tired, but not because of the physical aspects [of a character] but because every character that I am playing is quite layered. After this year is over, I just want to have fun and maybe do a nonsensical part with no hectic, stressful and layered work (laughs).

Does the burden of expectations ever weigh you down?

More than others, I have very high expectations from myself. So, it never weighs me down. I won’t use the word ‘critical’, but I am quite objective about my work.