Meet Alia Bhatt as the burkha-clad Sehmat

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After several critically acclaimed films like Dear Zindagi, Udta Punjab and Highway, Alia Bhatt is coming back to the silver screen in the role of Sehmat for Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi, based on the novel Calling Sehmat by Harinder Sikka.
On the occasion of Alia’s 25th birthday which also falls on March 15, the Talwar director shared two new stills from her upcoming film. Set in the backdrop of 1971, Raazi narrates the story of a Kashmiri girl who marries a Pakistani officer (played by Vicky Kaushal) but she is a spy for an Indian Intelligence agency.
As Alia has been saying in most of her interviews, Sehmat looks nothing like the roles that Alia has done in the past. While the first still shared by Gulzar features a burkha-clad Alia giving a solemn expression, in the second one, it appears like someone is intensely grabbing her arm.
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