Alia Bhatt keen to work with Mani Ratnam

Actress Alia Bhatt says she is keen to work with veteran director Mani Ratnam. "My dad (Mahesh Bhatt) keeps pushing me to watch regional films. He had said that I should definitely do Bengali films. I've always wanted to work with Mani Ratnam, so maybe I'll go down south and work with Mani sir," Alia said here when asked if she intended to try her hand at regional cinema. Earlier media reports mentioned that Mani Ratnam's “O Kadhal Kanmani”, a Tamil film was to have Alia in the lead opposite Dulquer Salman. Also another report claimed that Ratnam wanted Alia and Varun Dhawan for the same film in Hindi, but when things didn't work out, he made it in Tamil with Dulquer and Nithya Menen.