Alia Bhatt, who turns a year older on March 15, has a lot to celebrate this year. Her performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi is being lauded to the skies, and beyond.

Alia has received  congratulatory calls  from  practically the who’s- who of the film industry including Vidya Balan,  who many felt was the  right fit for Gangubai’s role, and told  Sanjay Leela Bhansali as much . But, even Vidya Balan thinks no one could have played Gangubai like Alia did.

“What can I say? It’s very humbling, very encouraging.  It gives me the strength to keep doing what I am doing,” says Alia during an interview.

She now confesses to being totally exhausted after the process of performing in and promoting Gangubai Kathiawadi. “I need a break. And there is my birthday coming up. So I will be vacationing somewhere…I can’t tell you where right now. But I see a lot of blue water,” she reveals with a laugh.

Do we also see someone whose name begins with the letter ‘R’ with her in this watery paradise?

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