{"id":338153,"date":"2022-06-27T02:15:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338153"},"modified":"2022-06-27T04:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:11:16","slug":"alia-bhatt-ranbir-kapoor-expecting-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/alia-bhatt-ranbir-kapoor-expecting-first-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor expecting first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood star Alia Bhatt on Monday announced that she and actor-husband Ranbir Kapoor will soon welcome their first child.<br \/>\nAlia, 29, took to Instagram to share the news as she posted a picture from an ultrasound session at a hospital with Kapoor, 39.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our baby&#8230;. coming soon,&#8221; the &#8220;Gangubai Kathiawadi&#8221; star captioned the photo.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, who got married in an intimate ceremony in April this year, is also set to share screen space for the first time in &#8220;Brahmastra: Part One Shiva&#8221;, scheduled to be released on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference for his upcoming film &#8220;Shamshera&#8221; last week, Ranbir said he couldn&#8217;t have asked for a better life partner than Alia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very big year for me. It is a great year for me, I got married, it is a beautiful thing that has happened in my life&#8230; My life with Alia is the best,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple&#8217;s family, including veteran actors Neetu Kapoor and Soni Razdan as well as Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, showered them with love and blessings post the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Neetu Kapoor, who was filming for a reality show here on Monday, was congratulated by the paparazzi present on the set, to which she replied with a big smile and &#8220;Thank you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My babies are having a baby. I love you both so much,&#8221; Ranbir&#8217;s sister Riddhima Kapoor Sahni wrote on Instagram Stories alongside the couple&#8217;s photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Alia&#8217;s mother Soni Razdan shared her daughter&#8217;s post on her Instagram Stories, calling it the &#8220;best news ever&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our cup runneth over,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Father Mahesh Bhatt told ETimes, &#8220;My baby is going to have a baby! I am so happy for Ranbir and Alia. May our tribe&#8217; increase. And now I have to prepare for the most important role of my life: The role of a Grandfather. This is going to be a grand debut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the work front, Alia will be next seen in Karan Johar&#8217;s directorial venture &#8220;Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani&#8221; and &#8220;Darlings&#8221;, which marks her debut as a producer. She also shot for her Hollywood debut &#8220;Heart Of Stone&#8221; in London recently.<\/p>\n<p>Ranbir is gearing up for the release of Yash Raj Films&#8217; &#8220;Shamshera&#8221;. The actor will also be seen in Luv Ranjan&#8217;s untitled movie and Sandeep Reddy Vanga&#8217;s &#8220;Animal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood star Alia Bhatt on Monday announced that she and actor-husband Ranbir Kapoor will soon welcome their first child. Alia, 29, took to Instagram to share the news as she posted a picture from an ultrasound session at a hospital with Kapoor, 39. &#8220;Our baby&#8230;. coming soon,&#8221; the &#8220;Gangubai Kathiawadi&#8221; star captioned the photo. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338155,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338153\/revisions\/338155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}