Alia Bhatt’s Raazi has been making quite a noise with her role as a spy, Sehmat, becoming the talking point. The trailer released today and has opened to a good review.
Helmed by Meghna Gulzar, the movie also stars Vicky Kaushal in the lead role.
Given that Raazi is a story of an Indian girl marrying a Pakistani man and still working as a spy for India, a meme compared it to the life of Indian sportsperson Sania Mirza who is married to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik.
Reacting to it, Sania wrote, “Ummm.. I think not.”
Check out the post here:
Ummm.. I think not 🙄 https://t.co/6gSfMHTHVd
— Sania Mirza (@MirzaSania) April 10, 2018
Meanwhile, Alia in an interview to a leading daily revealed how her parents, Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, reacted to the trailer.
She said, “My parents have been very involved with Raazi. My mother (Soni Razdan) has even acted in the film. They’ve both seen the trailer. The first time my dad (Mahesh Bhatt) saw the trailer, he was sitting a little away from our dining area and watching it intently on his laptop. Suddenly, we heard a whistle. That’s how we knew he’s liked it. Though my mother has acted in the film, she had tears in her eyes when she saw the trailer. She said, ‘It’s very moving and gritty.’’
She also spoke about her character in detail and said:
“For me, the best part is that this character is not a Lara Croft. She’s a young, naive girl, who decides to risk her life for her country. This was the most beautiful aspect, because I didn’t have to enact anything. Being brave doesn’t mean that you don’t get scared. The sequences were overwhelming, but I wasn’t afraid of holding on and going all the way. A lot of technical preparation went into playing Sehmat. I had to improve my Urdu and then unlearn what I had picked up, because I play a Kashmiri and I wasn’t required to speak chaste Urdu or Hindi. I even learnt the Morse Code by heart. It was something Meghna believed that I should do authentically, and I feel that it helped me get perfectly into the character.”
Raazi releases on May 11, 2018.