Alia Bhatt calls Karan Johar her eternal mentor

Alia Bhatt made her acting debut with Karan Johar's directorial '

Student of The Year

' in 2012, and even after several successful films, she prefers to call Johar her 'eternal'

mentor

. In an interview to a daily Alia said, 'Karan is a very big influence in my life. I genuinely feel that for a lot of my work ethics and behaviour, I owe it to Karan. The way he deals with people, and the way he behaves in his personal and professional life, I feel I am like that a lot too.'

Earlier this month, Alia appeared on KJo's chat show where he joked that the show had largely been responsible for Alia becoming 'infamous' for her lack of general knowledge after she goofed up while naming the Indian President in a previous season.