Aalia Bhatt gives a Live audition on the sets of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

On their recent appearance on Colors dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the newbies from Student of The Year were made to audition. It’s not like they had a choice, with their principal Karan, sitting on the judges’ panel, his hawk’s eye was on them. Going back in time on how the newcomers were selected for his movie, Karan said “Aalia was chosen from among 400 girls who auditioned for that role. We gave her the song Bahara from I Hate Luv Stories which had released just then and this filmi child just started dancing to it, without a choreographer, no instructions – nothing and that’s how she was chosen.”

On request, Karan had Aalia gave a mini audition to Bahara’again and just as the story went, she got into the song and performed like a true Bollywood actress would.

Furthermore, on the sets of Jhalak… she rehearsed so much that she even fainted as she was a little stressed. Sources from the sets say she was very excited about performing on a reality show as big as Jhalak that she kept rehearsing for attaining that perfection. Till late night the rehearsals were going on and even after fainting nothing could stop her. She rested for a while and started off with the shoot again.

Varun was asked to perform a dialogue from one of his father’s movies and he decided to launch into the famous “Hata saawan ki ghata kha khujaa…” dialogue from Deewana Mastana which he emulated with much aplomb though he did admit that he is a big Govinda fan and enacting one of his dialogues makes him nervous every time.

Further elaborating on the roles of the two boys, Karan said that they were given different tests since Varun’s role is that of a spoilt, naughty brat while Siddharth plays the role of the intense, romantic and shy young boy. Apparently, they are just like their reel life characters in real life too.

Well, it’s true what they say – ‘Different strokes for different folks’ is exactly how this audition looks like. Kudos! to the Student Of The Year cast for being such a good sport and doing such a fab job.