Ranbir advised that hardwork will eventually pay-off: Alia on dealing with 'Kalank' failure

Alia Bhatt said when "Kalank" tanked at the box office, she was heartbroken that her hardwork didn't pay-off immediately, but an advice from actor-boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor helped change her perspective.

"Kalank" was an ambitious period drama starring Alia, Varun Dhawan, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditya Roy Kapoor and Kunal Kemmu.

Alia was in conversation with filmmaker Karan Johar at the Jio MAMI Movie Mela with Star, 2019, where the the director asked the actor on how she dealt with the failure of the film.

"Strangely, I was really ok the day it happened. I had seen the film a day before and I knew in my head what was going to happen. Though I didn't think it will be going to be hit by a truck. Later on when I thought about it, what really broke my heart was that I always in my head had this idea that if you work really hard, it'll always pay-off. But it didn't. That felt scary."
"My job is to put in the hardwork. I believed in the film, it didn't pan out the way we wanted to, I felt bad about it for a few days but I had to focus on my next."
The 26-year-old actor said she often wonders if she has managed to develop the director-actor relationship with Mahesh Bhatt "or is it still that he's my father?"