Possessive dad doesn’t want me to marry: Alia

The Highway star is presently looking forward to her forthcoming film 2 States.

MUMBAI: Actor Alia Bhatt says her father and filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt is possessive about her, but adds that he has taken her on-screen intimacy with Arjun Kapoor in the forthcoming film 2 States practically.

“Like every father, who doesn’t want their daughters to get married, even my father is the same,” Alia said in a group interview.

“Recently, my father told us (Alia and her sister Shaheen) you all can’t go anywhere, I will lock you up in a room. He is honest and blunt about the fact that he doesn’t want us to get married.”

“He is not saying it just like that. He means it. He is very possessive and doesn’t want me to get married,” she added.

Currently, the Highway star is looking forward to her forthcoming film 2 States. Directed by Abhishek Verman, 2 States is an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller of the same name and Alia has read the book three times. She said: “I have to be as natural as possible. I read the book three times before we started shooting.”

Alia says that when she read the book for the first time, she felt it could be made into a good film. “I knew Arjun was on board… but I never thought I would be a part of the film. I got a call for a look test, which is basically figuring out if I look good with Arjun. I was hoping the role would come to me and it did. It’s a big achievement for me,” she said.

The actor, who garnered rave reviews for her performance in her last release Highway, says there was a reason behind doing 2 States. “After Highway I wanted people to say I am an actor and that I am not here to be a star. I would like to be considered a fine actor before getting five or six films old,” she concluded.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 10^th, 2014.

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