Alia Bhatt resumes shooting for Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi!

Young actress Alia Bhatt is on a roll! After giving back to back blockbusters and noteworthy performances, the lady has moved to yet another stellar role of her career. The latest update claims that Alia has started shooting for her upcoming film Raazi with filmmaker Meghna Gulzar from today. The movie also stars actor Vicky Kaushal as the male lead. Producer Karan Johar made the announcement on twitter and wrote: The journey of #RAAZI begins today!!! All the best to all of us!! @meghnagulzar @DharmaMovies @JungleePictures @aliaa08 @vickykaushal09."

Vicky Kaushal plays a Pakistani Army Officer and Alia essays his wife who turns out to be an Indian Spy. The film is based on the book Calling Sehmat by Harinder S Sikka. Raazi will be filmed in Punjab and Kashmir in an extended schedule. Later a small portion will be shot in Mumbai, as per the reports. The film is produced by Junglee Pictures and Dharma Productions. Alia and Vicky are excited to work on the film.

In a media statement, Alia expressed herself saying, "I had not read the book when Meghna came to me about a year-and-a-half ago. There was just a basic one-line story idea. I told her that this is something that I would love to do. Usually, we green light a script, but in my head, I had agreed to do Raazi even without the script. It’s a true story, and when I heard the turn of events, I had goosebumps. I couldn’t believe it. Then, they came back to me and I read the first 20 pages of the story and I knew that if I want to do that one film a year that challenges me, this is that film."

The actress added, “Actors want to do that one big Hindi film every year, but I want to do that one film that will completely challenge me and turn everything upside down. It happened with Highway, Udta Punjab, Dear Zindagi and now with Raazi. I am so scared and nervous to go on this journey, because of the kind of intensity of this character."

Along with Raazi , Alia has an interesting line up of films like Gully Boy, Dragon, and Aashiqui 3 among others.