Soni Razdan on Alia's injury

So now we know who the super-hero is. Alia Bhatt has injured herself while shooting for Ayan Mukerjee’s super-hero film Brahmastra. But she refuses to take sick leave. The show, as they say, must go on. And if it’s Alia the show doesn’t just go on — it hurls forward. In spite of her injury, the actress insists on continuing her shooting in Bulgaria.

Says Alia’s mother, actress-filmmaker, Soni Razdan, “She has injured her shoulder in an action sequence in Bulgaria. Alia being Alia is taking it ‘on the chin’ or ‘on the shoulder’ as it were in this case. The early reports suggest some ligament damage and a haematoma, so she must rest the shoulder for some time now and not do any more action. Apart from this she is her usual smiling self.”

The injury means no more action sequences for Alia for at least two years. Father figure and mentor Karan Johar was toying with the idea of doing an action film on the lines of Lara Croft with Alia, which will now have to wait.

Alia seems gung-ho about action. But there is another genre she is longing to explore. “Doing action is fun as long as I don’t get hurt. But what I really want to is a comedy — a full-on slapstick situational comedy.”

Her next release, Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi, is anything but comic. Looks like the laughs will also have to wait.