Alia Bhatt: People would probably not watch my movies after watching a show on my life
In the time I’ve known Alia Bhatt, she’s come across keenly aware and as sharp, confident of herself. And the girl is all of 23. It’s surprising rankles her. And this Diwali, she doesn’t just make a fervent supplication for her four-legged friends, who don’t find this season so festive, she describes her Kardashian fixation, too…
Why is it important to have a noise-free Diwali?
Diwali is the festival of lights. It’s about being joyful from in and about spreading love and light from within, with your loved ones and your family. Light a candle or a diya, spread colour by wearing bright clothes and rangoli, do a puja, be grateful and thankful for all the great things, but apart from that when you’re lighting these noisy crackers, you might be taking a very simple and fundamental right of a living being that doesn’t desire to hear these sounds.
Diwali goes on for a week to 10 days and crackers are lit during weddings, also. It’s non stop. Forget what it does to our atmosphere, that toh is horrendous, but bursting crackers is something these poor creatures can’t conquer.
They have nowhere to go and ca shut their ears like we can. I have put cotton wool in my own cat’s ears and it’s truly depressed because they get ill. The noise is deafening and I can close the windows although at least my pets are at home! What about animals traveling? And it’s not that I haven’t lit crackers as a youngster, but I’d use the sound-free ones like the phooljharis and anaars. As it adds to pollution crackers aren’t good and it’s like burning cash.
You keep saying you love Kim Kardashian and that you would like to do a show like Keeping Up With The Kardashians…
Sometimes, I just speak frivolously and don’t really mean it. People would probably not watch my movies after watching a show on my life! (Laughs) We were chatting one day and I was guessing how much money it would make if we did a show on our lives because the Bhatts are crazy in a sweet way. We are not normal people, we don’t have normal conversations and we don’t lead normal lives.
Kim was recently robbed in Paris. Did that encounter scare you about how unsafe the lives of celebs are?
I felt unnerved when I read about it. We tend to take some things for granted and then reality strikes. It’s scary that something like that can happen. The lesson here is that you never know what can happen when and to who. But luckily, everybody came out unharmed.
