In a wonderful display of the power of the pack, actress Alia Bhatt called “friends” Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, and Deepika Padukone her “huge sources of inspiration.” Speaking at the Forbes 3050 event, she said that she admires them “deeply.”
Alia said, "Actresses from the Indian film industry have done that, and have been huge sources of inspiration to me. Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika (Padukone), these are actors who are also friends of mine, but I also admire deeply. So I have to give them a lot of credit because they paved the way in a sense. You know, made it a normal thing.”
She also added, "I also feel like we are living in a time where inclusivity, diversity is the need of the hour where you want to see different faces from different parts of the world, speaking in different accents. But all part of the same, telling the same language of a story. At the end of the day, the story is what should be at the forefront. Not where you come from, or what accent you speak, or what your ethnicity is.”
This is not the first time Alia has spoken to support her female colleagues. Last year, on an episode of ‘Koffee with Karan,’ when host Karan Johar had asked Kareena Kapoor if she thought Deepika Padukone was her competition, she said the question applied to Alia. When Karan asked Alia the same question, she said, “Please. Not at all. Why would she be? She’s my senior. There’s no competition.”
On the work front, we will see Alia in a YRF spy universe film, shooting for which is set to begin later this year. She will team up with Sharvari Wagh in the yet-to-be-titled film. They will play super agents in the action entertainer according to YRF CEO Akshaye Widhani. Alia also has Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love & War’ alongside Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, and Vasan Bala’s ‘Jigra’ in the pipeline.