The Asian Age

‘ I WAS VERY NERVOUS FOR MY MOM'

- UMA RAMASUBRAM­ANIAN

Actress Alia Bhatt’s Raazi looks enormously promising and the actress has proved, yet again, that she is an actor to reckon with. This powerhouse of talent will be seen working with her mother, Soni Razdan, in the film. And Alia says she was very nervous for her mother.

“I was nervous not for myself but for her. I hoped my mother had memorised all the dialogues and thought I would get nervous if she forgot her dialogues,” Alia said. She added, “Obviously, she has worked for far longer than I have and she is a much better actor than I am and she was so chilled out. We were in Kashmir and we had a great time. It was a beautiful experience.” Raazi based on

“We were in Kashmir and we had a great time. It was a beau experience. — ALIA BHATT

The book Calling Sehmat, by exaval officer Harinder Sikka, nd will see Alia playing an andian spy married to a akistani officer during the ndo- Pakistan war of 1971. The actress, who is playing real life character for the first me, says, “It’s a true story and the first time I will be playing real- life character, so that omes with a sense of responsili­ty. I hope there is the right mount of representa­tion, the ght amount of hope so that eople understand what this haracter went through.” The actress then digressed a ttle, straying to the topic of the athua rape victim. “It is a disgracefu­l, shameful and terrible incident. As a girl, as a woman, as an individual, as a citizen of this country, I feel very hurt that something like this has happened.” She added, “I was reading about the case for many days, but I stopped reading updates for the past two days because I think the more I read the more upset, angry and hurt I become. I fervently hope hat justice is served. We should o out there and condemn this because this cannot be done to us again and again.”

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Soni Razdan and Alia Bhatt

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