Alia Bhatt’s ‘Student of the year’ poster unveiled by Karan Johar

Alia Bhatt seems to be in the limelight. Dharma productions, has recently released a spate of posters of the movie “Student of the Year”. Alia Bhatt features in one of the latest posters.

Karan released the first teaser poster on Tweeter. Recently, three posters have been released. One features three students with their back towards the camera and the other shows newcomer Siddharth Malhotra.

Alia plays the role of Sanaya in the movie. The trailer of the movie will be released on August 2. The hype generated by the posters has created the anticipation for the movie. It seems the energetic and innocent youthful charm is being brought together by director Karan Johar.  

Alia is the daughter of film maker Mahesh Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan. Deepika, Kareena and Priyanka continue to sizzle the silver screen. But the film industry likes to bring in new faces that look fresh and are talented. She had been signed by Karan Johar for this upcoming movie ‘Student of the Year’.

Though Alia is making her official debut with ‘Student of the Year’, she has acted as a child artist in the movie ‘Sangharsh’, directed by Tanuja Chandra, which starred Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta, in 1999.

‘Student of the Year’ also feature other debutants, like Varun Dhawan (Son of Director David Dhawan), Kayoze Irani (son of actor Boman Irani), and newcomer Siddharth Malhotra. It also features Kayoze’s father Boman Irani. Actor Rishi Kapoor plays the role of a gay, as Dean Yoginder Vasisht.

The film was shot at Dehradun’s Kasiga School, the name of which has been changed in the movie to St. Tersesa School. The film has also been shot in Shimla, Kashmir and Thailand.

The movie is slated to be released on October 11^th. One of the posters showed three students sitting on a bench. Their jerseys had the numbers 19, 10, 12. This indicated the releasing date of the movie. Karan is co-producing this movie with Shahrukh Khan’s Red Chilies Entertainment. Though, SRK does not appear in a major role in the movie, it is rumored that Shahrukh and Kajol will make a guest appearance in the movie. The movie went on floors on August 16^th, 2011 by socialite Paremeshar Goodrej. Karan Johar turned director for this movie after a long time. He last directed the movie ‘My name is Khan’ in 2008.