Alia Bhatt (born 15 March 1993) is an Indian actress and model who appears in Bollywood films. Born into a family where her parents, Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, and elder sister Pooja Bhatt were actors and filmmakers, Bhatt made her acting debut at the age of 19 withKaran Johar's Student Of The Year (2012), which was a box-office success.
Alia was born in Mumbai to Bollywood personalities Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan. Her father Mahesh Bhatt is a director, producer, and screenwriter while her mother Soni Razdan is 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 IBDP in May 2011.
Bhatt's first movie role was as a child artist when with Sangharsh (1999), starring Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta where she played the younger Zinta.
In 2012, Bhatt made her debut in Karan Johar's Student Of The Year along with Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan. Her performance in this film was much appreciated by film critics.
The gorgeous filmy family girl Alia Bhatt is born in the famous Bhatt family of Bollywood. The girl though too early to start her career as a lead actress has struck a chord at both Abhinav Kashyap and Karan Johar’s heart with the innocent spark in her face and dusky eyes.
The girl already touched the world with her debut movie SANGHARSH (1999) as a child artist which had Akshay Kumar and Priety Zinta as leads. Just as it is said that big things come in small packages, the child artist could wait no longer and has decided to start her career at a tender age of just 17. That also reminds us of our Bengali beauty Rani Mukherjee who also started her career at 17.
The powerhouse of talent that she imbibes in her genes, she is rumoured to have bagged her first offer from Abhinav Kashyap to play