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Finally, the second season of the much-loved Netflix show, The Great Indian Kapil Show, is out, and first up, the host Kapil Sharma welcomed the team of Jigra — Alia Bhatt, Vedang Raina, Karan Johar and Vasan Bala. While fun was always on the cards, the show also touched upon the idea of motherhood, what happens when film celebrities become parents, Karan ‘Cupid’ Johar, and of course… Jigra.
Calling Raha and Ranbir’s equation as “one for the ages,” Alia said that they shared a special friendship. “Ranbir invents random games for Raha. Suddenly, he’d be like, ‘Do you want to touch the clothes in the cupboard?’ and then they would have a sensory play categorising the dress as Velvet, Suede, Cotton, etc… He is very adventurous and very creative. It is very endearing,” said Alia, who opened up on a connection between Raha, Ranbir, herself, and a 1991 Malayalam film called Sandhwanam.
Alia Bhatt shared that the nurses who take care of Raha are from Kerala, and they have been singing a Malayalam song as a lullaby. A song that has successfully been used for the same purpose in almost every Malayali household since 1991. “When Raha wants to sleep, she says Vaavavo as the cue. Now, Ranbir has learned to sing Unni Vaavavo,” said Alia, and Karan Johar added that his children have picked up Malayalam because they were raised by nurses from Kerala.
Kapil Sharma’s question about the highly intellectual Mahesh Bhatt turning into a goofy granddad left the audience in splits, especially when Alia Bhatt said, “Raha calls him Gee Paa, and he does these odd things with his face to make her smile.” But things took a more profound and heartwarming turn when Alia connected the dots, and said, “It is kind of sweet, and I feel that he did the same thing with me when I was a kid. When you see your parents play with your child, it is almost like having flashes of your own childhood.”
Extending this phenomenon to the way her mother Soni Razdan sings songs for Raha, Alia narrated a beautiful incident. “My mother has a song she sings while changing Raha’s diapers. It goes like ‘Punjabi Samosa, Aloo ka Pakoda, Gujarati ka Dhokla…’ and she sang the same when I was a baby. No wonder I grew up to love Dhoklas, Samosas and Pakodas.”
On the movie front, Jigra, which is directed by Vasan Bala, features Alia Bhatt as a protective sister who would go to any lengths to save her brother from captivity in a foreign prison. The action drama, backed by Alia along with Karan, will hit screens worldwide on October 11.
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