After making her debut with a hit but frivolous film Student Of The Year, Alia Bhatt has proved her mettle in films like Highway, Udta Punjab, Dear Zindagi. We all loved her in the role of a Bihari migrant worker who had played hockey at district level and dreams to play at national level. With her hard work and dedication, she nailed the character and her diction was perfect to the T.
Now, she is all set to play the madam of a brothel in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next titled Gangubai Kathiawadi. And to give her best, the actress will be taking one month special classes to learn the diction of Kathiawadi language which is a dialect of Gujarati.
Film business analyst Atul Mohan took to his social media account to share the information. He wrote, “#Exclusive #AliaBhatt will be taking up one month special classes to learn the diction of #Kathiyawadi language for #SanjayLeelaBhansali’s #GangubaiKathiawadi. The shoot of the film begins soon in #FilmCity. For those who don’t know, Kathiyawadi is dialect of #Gujarati.”
#Exclusive #AliaBhatt will be taking up one month special classes to learn the diction of #Kathiyawadi language for #SanjayLeelaBhansali's #GangubaiKathiawadi. The shoot of the film begins soon in #FilmCity. For those who don't know, Kathiyawadi is dialect of #Gujarati. pic.twitter.com/Sg7f1KcnpO
— Atul Mohan (@atulmohanhere) November 3, 2019
Gangubai Kathiawadi hailed from the underworld and was a brothel owner in Kamthipura. Sold into prostitution by her husband, Gangubai refused to bow down and became a force to reckon with. The story of the film is said to be loosely adapted from one of the chapters of Hussain Zaidi’s “Mafia Queens Of Mumbai”. The film is slated to release in September next year.
On the work front, Alia Bhatt will next be seen in Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra, Mahesh Bhatt’s Sadak 2 and Karan Johar’s Takht. Reports are also doing the rounds that she will be starring in Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s next film based on Infosys co-founder NR Narayan Murthy and his wife Sudha Murthy. She was last seen in Kalank and Gully Boy both of which were released in 2019. The latter was a commercial and critical success and earned Bhatt a huge appreciation from the critics and masses alike.