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Subhash K Jha (DNA; July 9, 2014)

Alia Bhatt, who is gearing for her fourth release this year, won’t be fasting this Ramzan with her father Mahesh Bhatt. But she admits she observed the fast in the past just to feel close to her father.

Says Alia, “My father observes the holy fast because he feels it brings him close to his mother’s memory. And I did it because it brought me closer to him. We would wake up early in the morning and eat together. That is a memory which I still hold on to.”

There is a buzz that Bhatt Sr might be coaxed out of retirement to direct a remake of his 1989 hit Daddy which had starred Alia’s eldest sister Pooja Bhatt.

Says Alia, “I don’t think that will happen. But if anyone can convince my father to do it, it’s Pooja. She’s the strongest member of our family.”