‘Brahmastra’: Bollywood's Superhero Universe
Bollywood's new superhero universe is a romantic, fantasy, and action-packed journey of a young warrior who rises to save the world with superpowers.

Alia Bhatt (born March 15, 1993) is an Indian-born British actress and producer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. After appearing as a child artist in *Sangharsh* (1999), she made her adult debut in *Student of the Year* (2012), earning a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for *Highway* (2014). Over the following years, her credits included *2 States* (2014), *Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania* (2014), *Kapoor & Sons* (2016), and *Dear Zindagi* (2016). Bhatt won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for *Udta Punjab* (2016), *Raazi* (2018), and *Gully Boy* (2019). For the biographical drama *Gangubai Kathiawadi* (2022), she won both the National Film Award for Best Actress and a fourth Filmfare Award for Best Actress, later winning a fifth for *Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani* (2023). Her other screen credits include the Telugu-language feature *RRR* (2022), *Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva* (2022), and her English-language debut in *Heart of Stone* (2023). Through her production banner Eternal Sunshine Productions, she produced and starred in *Darlings* (2022) and *Jigra* (2024), and executive produced the streaming series *Poacher* (2024).
Bollywood's new superhero universe is a romantic, fantasy, and action-packed journey of a young warrior who rises to save the world with superpowers.
A brave Indian woman rises from an oppressive background to become an inspired leader for women and men alike around the globe.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.