“Sara Ali Khan Is Better Than Alia Bhatt”: Netizens Are All Praises For The Simmba Actress Post Her Airport Appearance

When Sara Ali Khan walked out of the airport pushing her own luggage trolley loaded with three large suitcases, she disrupted the whole image of the quintessential Bollywood diva. Isn’t it only a while back, after all, that we saw another Gen Now heartthrob, Alia Bhatt, sashay out of the arrival gate, even as lesser mortals fussed over her luggage?

Bollywood divas are meant to be like Alia, isn’t it — with a flunky here to hold the umbrella, and another couple to take care of luggage. With one to hold the cellphone and another to mind the make-up kit. Yet another will be at hand to give the make-up final touches before she may step out into the glare of awaiting press lens persons — incidentally invited to queue outside the airport arrival gates by the most important person in the diva’s staff — the PR person.

That’s how it’s supposed to be with heroines, we were tempered to believe all along.

If Sara is out to break that cliche, it seem a masterstroke at a time when the heroine on screen is also growing real. It won’t be long before her next-gen rivals like Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria give Alia’s generation a serious run for their money in the glamour department. Sara, despite belonging to the Nawabi khaandaan of the Pataudis, has also always proudly flaunted the girl-next-door upbringing she has received from mom Amrita Singh.

The icing on the cake, however, would happen next, after Sara emerged from inside the airport. As she passed the photographers, she stopped briefly to smile and ask: “Hello! kaise ho aap (how are you?”