A clip from Alia Bhatt’s early appearance on Koffee With Karan resurfaced online on 1 November, reviving one of the show’s most quoted exchanges: Alia telling host Karan Johar that she started dating in the sixth standard.
According to Daily Kiran and The World Opinion, both reporting the resurfaced clip on 1 November, Karan told Alia that Varun Dhawan had informed him about her early romances. Alia responded playfully that she would not call them a series of relationships.
Smiles across the classroom
“I wouldn’t call it a relationship, but I had boyfriends, and they were serious, like for two years, then another two years,” Alia said in the clip, before clarifying with a laugh: “That’s why I say it wasn’t a serious thing. I started dating in sixth grade.”
She explained that it was not dating in the real sense. “Obviously, it wasn’t dating. It was just that we would smile at each other from across the classroom,” she said, according to The World Opinion.
The first real boyfriend
Alia went on to say that her first real boyfriend was in Class 10, a relationship that lasted two years and which she described as her first high-school love. When Karan asked whether she ended it to pursue acting, she denied it, saying: “No, he broke up with me.”
BollySpice’s original recap of the episode confirms the same exchange, placing it in Alia’s debut Koffee With Karan appearance alongside her Student of the Year co-stars in 2013.
Why an old clip travels again
Old talk-show clips resurface constantly, but this one travels because it captures Alia before stardom hardened into image management — candid, funny and unbothered by the host’s disbelief.
Alia married actor Ranbir Kapoor on 14 April 2022, and the couple welcomed daughter Raha Kapoor in November 2022. The clip is a reminder of how long she has been in the public eye — and how much of her early career is still available, clip by clip, to a new generation of viewers.
