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Alia Bhatt has cemented her position as one of the strongest actors in the country thanks to her performance in films like Raazi, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Kapoor & Sons, Highway and many more. But there was a point in time when she had to convince a director to cast her in her film when he was in two minds about her and that film was Udta Punjab by Abhishek Chaubey.
As per a report in News 18, it was Shahid Kapoor who first introduced her to the film. “Shahid and I were shooting for ‘Shaandaar’ at the time. He told me about the script and that it is such a good script and he wants me to read it. Maybe he wanted my advice on it or maybe he was going to suggest me for this part, I don’t know. Shahid and I had become very good friends and he had asked me to just read the script. I read the script and I was like ‘Wow, what a part’. I was like, ‘listen I want to do this part’. He was like, ‘Okay, I also think it will be quite cool and you should meet Chaubey’. So then I met Chaubey and I had to convince him that I will do it.”
“Abhishek Chaubey was like I am still realigning because he had a certain image of me in his mind where she is this young girl, heroine because I had done those kinds of films, although I had done a film like ‘Highway’. For Chaubey to reimagine me as that character was a big thing. He had to sleep on it,” Alia recalled.Determined to land the part, Alia went through multiple look tests and assured the filmmaker of her commitment. “So we did a look test or something like that and he was still not sure. I said I will work very hard and I will really prove myself but I really want to play this part. I wanted to prove that I can be really the opposite also. Like I really wanted to prove myself and the world that I am a chameleon. I can get into any shape and size. I just wanted to prove it somehow,” she said.The TOI Entertainment Desk is a dynamic and dedicated team of jou...
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