Bollywood diva Alia Bhatt’s next movie after Kapoor & Sons would be Udta Punjab directed by Abhishek Chaubey. Featuring Shahid Kapoor in the male lead and Kareena Kapoor in a pivotal role, there are news regarding the characterisation of Alia.
She will be seen as an aspiring hockey player hailing from Bihar and has even learnt to speak the Bhojpuri language like Shahid for it. In order to give a real touch to her role, she has been given with a dark makeup with an orange tinge for her hair.
There is no other news that we could obtain from the team as her onscreen look is kept well under wraps. However people are speaking that it would be a never seen before Alia Bhatt in this neo-noir thriller.
The movie’s costume designer Payal Saluja has also agreed regarding Alia’s makeover but have not given much details about it. We have already known that the movie’s plot runs around drug abuse issue and it is Alia’s character who fall prey to it.
Alia will be a Bihari Nanda, a daily wage worker from Bihar who gets involved in drug trafficking in the Punjab local region. Kareena will play a doctor, Dr.Shivani from Amritsar and Diljit Dosanjh as a tough cop.
The shooting was done at places of Punjab like Tarn Taran, Amritsar and presently the post production works are at full swing. The trailer is likely to be released by April 10 and the movie will hit the screens on June 17.
Alia Bhatt role in Udta Punjab revealed