Alia Bhatt entered Bollywood as a wide-eyed teenager at 19 about three years ago with Karan Johar?s bubblegum romance, Student of The Year. She looked every bit of a Bollywood kid, with starry airs et al. Nobody could have imagined that this girl would take up a non-glamorous, path-breaking role of Veera in Highway. With this, she proved her mettle as an actress.