Alia Bhatt was “beyond great” in Gangubai Kathiawadi, according to Amitabh Bachchan, and the actress shared a message from Big B with her.

Alia Bhatt has received a letter of thanks from Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan composed the beautiful comments after witnessing Bhatt perform in Gangubai Kathiawadi.

Amitabh Bachchan praised Alia Bhatt’s performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. On Monday, Alia exposed fans to a handful of her selfies over the preceding four months. Alia was spotted carrying a message from Amitabh Bachchan that stated, “Alia, you are beyond magnificent in Gangubai.” In addition to appreciating the Gangubai Kathiawadi actor, he also said that he is “short of words.” Amitabh Bachchan and Alia are set to share screen time in Alia’s next film Brahmastra, in which the actress will also feature with her husband Ranbir Kapoor.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi was a box office success. The film, which premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 16th, 2022, was released on February 25th. Netflix has made it accessible for watching right now.

The historical drama recounts Bhatt’s protagonist Gangubai’s rise to prominence in Mumbai in the 1960s. The film’s plot is based on S Hussain Zaidi’s book The Mafia Queens of Mumbai.

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Shubhra Gupta, a film critic for The Indian Express, gave it three stars and described it as a spectacle made authentic by Alia Bhatt’s performance.”What elevates it above your typical Bhansali extravaganza is Alia Bhatt’s desire to go the extra mile: beneath the cuss-words, drunken binges, and speechifying-on-podiums, some of which come off as cheesy, is Alia Bhatt’s desire to go the extra mile: beneath the cuss-words, drunken binges, and speechifying-on-podiums, some of which come off as acting,’ Alia Bhatt makes her Gangubai authentic.” “We are compelled to feel the misery of the females whose lives are so constrained and who feel so abandoned by their loved ones that they can find a company, however rough and tumble, only amongst themselves,” read a passage from her evaluation.

Aside from Alia Bhatt, the film stars Vijay Raaz, Jim Sarbh, Seema Pahwa, and Ajay Devgn.