MUMBAI: Indian actress Alia Bhatt says she is ready to experience all film industries and act in movies of different languages like Tamil, Urdu, and English.
In an interview, the 23-year-old said that she would love to work in Lollywood, Tollywood, and even Nollywood, referring to the Pakistani, South Indian and Nigerian film industries.
Alia says that she doesn’t care whether it’s Bollywood or Hollywood, Lollywood or Tollywood, all she want to do is ‘acting’. Besides, she says that she loves singing.
“You can say acting’s my husband and singing is my boyfriend. It’s a long-term commitment with my acting. Singing is something that I’m really, really fond of, but I don’t know how far I can take that in my life,” Bhatt said.
She further expressed her interest in experimenting with acting in Hollywood and a web series for a platform like Netflix after four meteoric years in Bollywood.
“Definitely Hollywood is something, a destination that you really reach after, maybe a couple of years after kind of finding your feet in Indian cinema, in Bollywood,” the actress said in the interview.
“I’m going to step into it maybe a little slower, but definitely, I have plans.”
Some film gurus admit that the actress is following a well-worn path, with Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan already making their mark in America.
‘Student of the year’ actress says that she admires the work of Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence.
“Jennifer Lawrence is somebody I really look up to because I really like the kind of choices she makes. She’ll do the ‘Hunger Games’ but then she’ll also do the ‘Silver Linings Playbook’,” she said “So I probably want to start with like a ‘Silver Linings Playbook’, something more where there’s more scope for performance, you know, because I feel like that’s where I’ll really learn.”
Alia Bhatt has only seven films under her belt. Her recent film was ‘Udta Punjab’ and upcoming films include “Dear Zindagi”, which stars Bollywood megastar Shahrukh Khan.