By
RUBY ZAIDI
One of the finest actors of the Indian Film Industry Alia Bhatt shares a unique relationship with her father, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. While other fathers want to protect their daughters from failure, Mahesh wants Alia to face failure so she doesn’t see it as a bad thing. So much so that when Alia had a panic attack one day before her first time on a film set for Karan Johar’s Student of the Year, Mahesh made her stand in front of a room full of people and talk about her feelings so she could process them.
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In an earlier chat with Karan Thapar for India Today, when the interviewer asked Alia about her panic attack, she recalled it as the “strangest” experience. When she called her father “crying and shaking,” he asked her to come to the office. “I thought he would hug me, there would be silence in the room, but I walked into a room with eight people. He made me stand up in front of everybody in the middle of the room and said ‘Now talk about the way you are feeling’,” she recalled.
