Veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt recently opened up about his daughter Alia Bhatt’s approach to balancing motherhood and stardom. In an interview with Humans of Bombay, he revealed that Alia has gone a step further in making sure her two-year-old daughter, Raha Kapoor, is comfortable even on sets.
Mahesh Bhatt reveals Alia Bhatt’s two-year-old daughter Raha has her own “vanity van”: “It felt like a nursery, almost a temple”
“She just went to Milan for the Gucci event, carrying her daughter with her. I recently did an ad with her and Mr Bachchan. I saw that there was a vanity which was for Raha. And Alia says, ‘Why don’t you go and sit in Raha’s room, papa?’ I didn’t want to contaminate it. It had the feeling of a nursery school. It almost looked like a temple. I said, ‘No, no, no, the old man has no place there’. But that’s the new-age heroines. They go to work, they’re parenting, they go to Gucci events carrying their baby with them,” Bhatt said.
The idea of a toddler having a personal vanity van might sound excessive, especially considering that Raha is just two. At the same time, it reflects the lifestyle choices Alia wants for her daughter, and it’s her way of raising Raha in an environment she feels is safe and familiar.
Interestingly, conversations around celebrity vanity vans have long highlighted the industry’s extravagance. A while ago, filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, during a chat with Cyrus Broacha on his YouTube podcast, revealed that some Bollywood actors go as far as having six vanity vans. Without naming anyone, he said, “I know certain actors who have six makeup vans. It’s mandatory. The first van is his personal space… Then there’s a van for makeup, another for meetings, and a fourth one with a gym. Wahan saab workout karte hain. And for that one van, there’s a trainer, his assistant, the van driver, and the maintenance man. That’s six people for one van.”
When toddlers have their own vans and stars insist on entire convoys, it becomes harder to ignore the sheer excess woven into the fabric of Bollywood. For the industry, this may be the new normal. For outsiders looking in, it is simply another reminder of how far celebrity privilege can go.
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