Alia Bhatt is all set to essay the role of a professional hockey player in her upcoming film. The young actress is giving her best to learn the sport and is regularly training for daily two hours in the morning. She has been doing so for over a week now, according to a leading daily. Alia had also posted a picture of herself with a hockey stick on Instagram and captioned it 'My new friend', earlier this month. The forthcoming film is set in Punjab which is a state famous for its hockey players.
Many other Bollywood divas have undergone training in various sports to essay their roles convincingly. Actress Priyanka Chopra under took vigorous training in boxing for her role in ' Mary Kom ', Parineeti Chopra trained herself in Golf for her role in ' Kill Dil ' while Sonakshi Sinha who played a college level boxer in Akshay Kumar 's ' Holiday - A Soldier Is Never Off Duty ' got trained from Olympic medallist Vijender Singh.
The film also stars actors Shahid Kapoor , Kareena Kapoor and is directed by Abhishek Chaubey .