Alia Bhatt

Alia Bhatt is the daughter of director Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, a film actress and director. She has one sister Shaheen Bhatt, a half sister Pooja Bhatt, and a half brother Rahul Bhatt. Actor Emraan Hashmi and director Mohit Suri are her cousins and producer Mukesh Bhatt is her uncle. Alia has completed high-school from Jamnabai Narsee School IB in May 2011 .

Bhatt has acted as a child artist in the film Sangharsh (1999), starring Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. She played the younger Zinta in the film.

She started her career in Bollywood as a lead role in the upcoming film Student of the Year where she stars opposite newcomers Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan (David Dhawan's son). The film is directed and produced by Karan Johar and co-produced by Shahrukh Khan. The film is expected to release on October 19th, 2012.

Birthday

15 Mar 1993

Unknown Facts

1) Alia's favourite cartoon show is Tom and Jerry.

2) Chocolate is Alia's favourite flavour of ice-cream.

3) Alia's current favourite TV show is Girls, starring Lena Dunham.

4) Alia's favourite dessert is moong daal halwa.

5) Alia loves peanuts with green tea.

6) Three people who Alia admires most are her mother Soni Razdan, her mentor Karan Johar and her sister Shaheen Bhatt.