"Life has no full stop, so Alia Bhatt also has no full stop." - Mahesh Bhatt

Like any other father, Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt always praises his daughter Alia Bhatt whenever given a chance. In a recent interview, he said "There are no finishing points, life has no full stop, so Alia Bhatt also has no full stop. We must not cease to be generous to our children or to be too eager to say this is her finishing point."

However, he thinks that Alia should not feel that she has 'arrived'. "How can this girl feel she has arrived? She has the audacity and the courage to demolish herself at the end of the day even after receiving applause when she sees a brilliant performance of an actor such as Meryl Streep. I keep telling her, ‘Alia, why don’t you watch all the movies of Meryl Streep? She is an amazing actor’."

But does Bhatt feel that his daughter has peaked in her career way too early? He revealed, "I don’t worry about people saying she has peaked too early, she’s peaked according to the limits of the skies that people have in their own minds. I think she’s just warming up."

According to Mahesh, a great performance happens with a "deadly combination of an actor, a writer or a director". "I am aware that whatever Alia has achieved is because of that deadly combination of these three factors. I don't think it's fair in the 21st century to impose your limitation on a generation that is just about waking up to its own appetite. I think, for Alia, the possibilities are inexhaustible," he concluded.