Alia Bhatt, who made her acting debut with Karan Johar’s directorial Student of the Year alongside Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra, has come a long way to emerge as one of the biggest stars in the country.

In the last decade, the actress has delivered several performances in films like Highway, Raazi, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Gully Boy and others.

Ram Kapoor, who played a key role in SOTY, recalled his experience of working with Alia and said that since she was the youngest, people dismissed her and felt Varun Dhawan and Siddarth Malhotra had a better potential to succeed.

“She is Alia Bhatt today, married to a Kapoor. If she goes the way she is going now, she will be Deepika. She is not a bloody star child. She is more professional than anyone, I have seen it. In today’s time, if you are not like that, the industry says bye,” said Ram Kapoor while talking to Siddharth Kannan.

“She is so professional. I know ad filmmakers who have done ads with her. Do you know that on sets, she calls every single director ‘Sir’, even if he is younger than her,” he said.

“Everyone was so young. The industry is so hard that everybody was looking at her with doubt. Alia was the youngest. At that point, if you told anyone that Alia would achieve what she has achieved today, nobody would believe,” recalled Ram while remembering the shooting days of SOTY.

“She was a small little baby, literally. She still had baby cheeks. She is not the Alia of today. For Varun and Siddharth, people thought that maybe they have a chance, but Alia was such a baby. Looking at what she has achieved today, hats off!” mentioned the prominent TV star.

On the professional front, Alia Bhatt has two biggies under her kitty in the form of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Love And War alongside Ranbir Kapoor and Vicky Kaushal and Alpha, which is directed by Shiv Rawail of The Railway Men fame.