‘It helped me to connect with the person within me. My father always said the day an actor finds oneness with the person within is the day he or she becomes a true actor. I think I found that person during Highway. I don’t know how much it helped me to grow as an actor, but the film got me to know things about myself that I didn’t know,’ said Alia.
Having played a fashionable airhead in her debut film Student Of The Year, Alia has now completed a gruelling, gut-wrenching physically and emotionally exhausting film with Ali. ‘It was very difficult,’ she said and added: ‘I realise other actors probably come to something like Imtiaz Ali’s Highway after maybe six to seven films behind them.’
‘When Imtiaz offered me the role, I was surprised. I’ve had no training in acting at all, and that in a way proved an advantage. Imtiaz was able to mould my personality in the way he wanted.
Having played a fashionable airhead in her debut film Student Of The Year, Alia has now completed a gruelling, gut-wrenching physically and emotionally exhausting film with Ali. ‘It was very difficult,’ she said and added: ‘I realise other actors probably come to something like Imtiaz Ali’s Highway after maybe six to seven films behind them.’
‘When Imtiaz offered me the role, I was surprised. I’ve had no training in acting at all, and that in a way proved an advantage. Imtiaz was able to mould my personality in the way he wanted.