Alia says her ad for a beauty brand with Soni Razdan is nothing like DP and her mom’s jewellery ad
Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; June 1, 2015)

First came an ad featuring Deepika Padukone and her mom Ujjala, shortly followed by an ad film featuring Alia Bhatt with her mom Soni Razdan. The only difference being that while it was the first time for Mrs Padukone, Soni, as an actress, has faced the camera several times for television as well as the big screen.

“It was so exciting to shoot for an ad with my mom. The director wanted us to be exactly how we are back at home. That’s how we talk to each other in real life,” smiles Alia. She admits that she has seen the ad featuring DP and her mom. “I have obviously watched Deepika’s ad and I loved it. It’s a beautiful ad.” But she doesn’t want people to compare Deepika’s ad with her Garnier commercial. “It would be really unfair to compare both the ads. Deepika’s is a very different ad — it’s far more emotional and sensitive. Mine is a lot more playful and fun. These two belong to different spaces completely.”

Not just the ads, Alia feels people should not ‘even dare compare her with Deepika’ because, “Deepika is much more mature than I am. Probably because I am much younger than her and I am still in that here-now-there-then space. So, for DP, there’s much more sensitivity and emotional content in that ad space. Plus, our products are very different.”