Alia Bhatt had revealed in an interview some time ago of the time when she got panic attacks before her first day of shoot for her debut film Student of The Year (2011). She said that she called her father Mahesh Bhatt in order to feel better but received an advice in the most unique way from him.

In an interaction with Karan Thapar for India Today earlier, Alia recalled how her father called her to the office. “I thought he would hug me, there would be silence in the room, but I walked into a room with eight people. He made me stand up in front of everybody in the middle of the room and said 'now talk about the way you are feeling.”

Alia was taken aback and told him that it’s ‘so mean’. "He said just do it. I did it and actually that was the best thing that he could have asked for because automatically I felt normal. Because Emraan was over there... Emraan Hashmi and he said 'Alia, you are going to feel this before every film, before every shot'.”

She further talked about how Mahesh was a different father and added, “He is not the dad who wants to sit down on every Sunday, or has to take you on a movie on Friday, or has to tell you to do well in school. He is the opposite, he would tell me to fail. He would say you must fail, if you don't fail, I will be very upset with you. He would say it's good. He completely took that idea out of my head that failure is a bad thing."

Alia is currently gearing up for the release of her film Jigra, which is directed by Vasan Bala and also stars Vedang Raina alongside her. It is set to be released on October 11.