MUMBAI: Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali recently revealed that Alia Bhatt is his favorite actor in the current times.

SLB asks Alia what happened with her as an actor through the process of filming Gangubai Kathiawadi, and what she has discovered new in herself. To this, Alia quickly replied without an iota of hesitation that Gangubai has become her alter-ego. She also expressed that she took up this film for the sole reason of getting to fulfill her childhood dream of working with him.

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“I discovered that Gangubai is my alter ego. Or, I don’t know whether I have lived with the character so deeply, that now she comes out in moments which I can’t control and people are like, ‘okay, this is not Alia, this is Gangubai.’ So, that’s never happened to me with any character,” said the actress.

“It was like, I want to work with you, and I wanted to work with you since I was nine. So, I was fulfilling that childhood dream. So, for me. no matter what, I would have expected…that experience- I don't think I can put the gratitude of the experience in words. Of course, I'll change as an actor, of course it's my in my opinion my best performance, but for me as a little girl, and as an actor, it's the most grateful I've ever felt to be directed by it,” Alia concluded.

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Towards the end, Bhansali dedicates a dialogue from his film to Alia, as he says, “Alia aayi thi heroine banne, and with Gangu, puri ki puri cinema bann gayi hain” (Alia had come to be a heroine, and with Gangubai, she has become the whole cinema).

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