India, Sept. 27 -- Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has shared that he thinks his wife Soni Razdan is a better actor than their daughter Alia Bhatt. Speaking with Screen, Mahesh said that Soni's "idiom is so evolved" that even he "couldn't give her enough roles." Mahesh was told that Soni had shared about her struggle in the entertainment industry to carve out her own identity after being known as Mahesh's wife and then Alia Bhatt's mother.

Mahesh heaped praises for Soni Razan, saying that "her style of expression, body language, and nuances are not what we call mainstream India." "I find Soni Razdan a better actor than Alia. You'd wonder why I'm saying that? But her idiom is so evolved that even as her life partner, I couldn't give her enough rol...