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Fans applaud Alia's guts to turn ' smart like Shabana' [Mail Today (India)](Mail Today (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A NEW viral video titled Alia: Genius Of The Year, created by funny portal AIB and directed by Shakun Batra of Ek Main Aur Ek Tu fame, announces that Bollywood's Gen- Next glam brigade has grown up and is gradually learning to take jokes on them. The video takes potshots at Alia's supposed dumbness and her eventual transformation to a brainy babe. It has taken the virtual world by storm and has received more than 20 lakh hits in less than two days. Meanwhile, Alia's fans have applauded the actress' guts to come on screen to narrate her journey " From Dolce Gabbana to smart like Shabana", by singing up for the Dumb Belle Mental Gym to upgrade her mental aptitude. Alia had apparently become a troll topic on the Internet after she named Prithviraj Chauhan as the President of India on Koffee with Karan . " Alia did not waste a minute to be a part of the spoof and neither did her father, who thought that it was a unique culture we were trying to create," says AIB member Tanmay Bhatt. " In India, film stars do not parody themselves, which takes away the fun from our lives," adds Bhatt, expressing his surprise over how the video has emerged as the biggest hit online. The video features Alia discussing her plight of being anointed as Bollywood's official dumb blonde. The Bhatt family, including Alia's dad and film- maker Mahesh Bhatt, joins in to read out an SMS joke: " Alia Bhatt thinks the national animal is Tiger Shroff". " The new crop of actors is a far more chilled out lot, who enjoy and connect with the online crowd," adds Bhatt, profusely applauding Batra for making the film in a shoe- string budget. Others who feature in the video are ' Garibo ka Wolverine' Arjun Kapoor, ' The other PC' Parineeti Chopra— who sought an edge over Alia as she is taller— and ' NRI Emotion Exploiter' Karan Johar who says, " We have hot and clever heroines, and they're called heroes." (c) 2014 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |