Actor Arjun Kapoor recently opened up about the backlash Alia Bhatt faced when she was cast as the South Indian lead in 2 States.

Over the years, Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s adaptation film ‘2 States’ has garnered a fandom of its own. During the announcement, several netizens had aprrehensions about Alia’s casting. A segment of the internet questioned Alia casting for the role of a Tamilian girl,

Actor Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt played a romantic couple in their 2014 hit film, 2 States. In an interview now, the former recounted how Alia was brutally trolled before the film's release, and everyone wondered how she would play a South Indian character when she didn't look the part.