After playing a strong minded and ambitious, young girl in Badrinath Ki Dulhania opposite Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt will be seen in a completely different role in her next. She has been roped in to play a Kashmiri Muslim girl, who is married to a Pakistani army officer, in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi that is based on Harinder Sikka’s novel, Calling Sehmat.
After playing a strong minded and ambitious, young girl in Badrinath Ki Dulhania opposite Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt will be seen in a completely different role in her next. She has been roped in to play a Kashmiri Muslim girl, who is married to a Pakistani army officer, in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi that is based on Harinder Sikka’s novel, Calling Sehmat.
“I am trying to do something in a new space, recreating India and Pakistan of the ‘70s on sets and real locations,” the director Meghna Gulzar said in a recent interview. “A lot of research has gone into getting the period and dialect right. There are some action pieces too. The work is in progress with workshops and reading sessions. It’s only when you agree to something that you eventually end up doing it and live with the consequences. ‘Raazi’ is a synonym of ‘sehmat’ which also means agreeable.”
According to reports, the film stars Bhatt opposite Vicky Kaushal, a character who provides Indian intelligence with valuable inputs during 1971 Indo-Pak war and in turn, saves lives of many Indian soldiers.
Raazi will be mostly shot in Punjab and Kashmir while a small part of the film will be shot in Mumbai.
