Alia Bhatt spoke about her relationship with her father, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and said that she didn’t miss her dad as a child as much because he wasn’t really there most of the times owing to his busy schedule, a leading website reports. During her interview on chat show Starry Nights 2.OH, Alia said that her father was “like a celebrity” and kept himself occupied with work most of the times.
"For me, he was always like a celebrity who would walk in to the house. I didn’t miss him as such because I did not really have him,” Alia said on the show. However, Alia, 25, did add that after a few years, Mr Bhatt did spend time with her and played board games.
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Mahesh Bhatt and Alia Bhatt photographed in Mumbai[/caption]
The real friendship, in Alia’s words, began after she made her debut in Bollywood and understood her father’s “consuming job” in the film industry. “But after a couple of years, he made sure he spent some time with us, played board games. The real friendship started when I entered the Bollywood industry and I understand how it must have been for him. It is such a consuming job," Alia said on the show.
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Alia is Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter with wife, actress Soni Razdan. Alia also has a sister, Shaheen. Mahesh Bhatt is an established filmmaker and has directed iconic films such as Naya Daur, Arth, Saaransh, Daddy, Aashiqui and Sadak. Raaz, Murder and Kalyug are some of the films that he has produced under the banner Vishesh Films.
Alia Bhatt made her debut in Bollywood with Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year in 2012 and is the star of films Highway, Badrinath Ki Dulhania, 2 States and Raazi. Her new film Gully Boy, co-starring Ranveer Singh, released on February 14.
