The year has begun on an extremely positive note for Alia Bhatt with Highway giving her wide critical acclaim. As the pretty actress celebrates her birthday today, we take a look at 10 unknown facts about Alia. Alia played the role of a young Preity Zinta in the movie Sangharsh. Alia loves French fries and can eat them at any time of the day. A total of 400 girls were auditioned by Karan Johar before he finally chose Alia for Student of the Year. Alia has always been a mommy’s girl and she was never that close to her father Mahesh Bhatt. It’s only after becoming an actress, Alia started getting close to Mahesh. Alia discusses her personal life only with her sister, Pooja Bhatt. Alia likes cold things as compared to hot things. Alia likes partying with her friends and is often seen inviting her bunch of friends for her film premieres. Alia doesn’t mind the media gossiping about her or talking about her link-ups. What she can’t tolerate is when someone writes anything against her family. (“I don’t mind if people write negative stuff about me. But I can’t stand anything written against my family,” Alia told in an interview to us.) The actress has no problems doing bold Bhatt films like Jism. The only thing that Alia will never do for a role is shave her head off. Well, this is our list. Did we miss anything? Feel free to share more facts about Alia or any of your favourite stars at [email protected] and we will share it with the world. And you will also get credited for the same (Yeah! Yeah!). So get those detective glasses on and go researching about stars and get featured on Tellychakkar.com.