Her easy going nature wants to make people approach and bond with her. We are talking about Vidya Balan. The actress bonded big time with yester year actress Madhu. A friend of Vidya’s said, ”Vidya had gone to her designer’s house warming party. There she met Madhu. Madhu took an instant liking towards Vidya. They had hardly met but the two took to each other instantly. Vidya and Madhu were chatting so intensely that it looked as if two long lost friends were catching up with each other after a long time.” It was just their common clan that got the connected. ”Vidya and Madhu are Tamil brahmins and perhaps that’s why the two got along well instantly,” said the friend.
The graceful Vidya Balan who turned a year older on January 1, has turned a new leaf. After her abortive attempts to revamp her wardrobe in Heyy Babyy and Kismat Konnection, Vidya has decided to go easy on the glam ramp. “It’s not as though I am disowning my efforts to do glamorous roles. I’m proud of Heyy Babyy and Kismat Konnection. But this year I’m doing films that don’t need me to stretch my personality. I’m very happy doing roles that come naturally to me. That’s what I decided about my career this year.” Vidya has just given the nod to Nikhil (Chandni Chowk To China) Advani’s next film which would surprise many. Advani’s Chand Bhai is a raw realistic...
According to the latest grapevine, Vidya Balan has turned down Ram Gpal Verma .Shock. because it also stars one flop-film-old actor Mohit Ahlawat, however, Parineeta girl denies these rumours. Who wouldn.t want to work with Ramuji?” she asks and adds,” But unfortunately he wanted the same dates as .Munnabhai Meets Mahatma.. So I couldn’t obviously do the film. Now I hear my friend Raima is doing it. I am happy for her.. But there is a reason to rejoice for Vidya too. Rituparno Ghosh has decided to cast her as Jaba in his forthcoming movie Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam. To be produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, the film also stars Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan. Commenting on her inclusion in the...
Vidya Balan , who was recently seen in a glamorous role in ” Heyy Babyy “, is happy being called a demure Indian girl. “That’s my USP and why should I shy away from it? Even if I tried to be a floozy, I’d be a disaster. Even when I played a radio-jockey in Raj Kumar Hirani’s film, I wore kurtas, skirts and other desi accessories. I’m not like a hip radio-jockey from Australia,” Vidya told IANS. “I’d have been happy to be born 40 years ago and live my life in a sari,” she added. Amitabh Bachchan once said you can’t take your eyes off Vidya when she is on screen. “It’s humbling. Even if he had just noticed me I’d have been complimented...
Vidya Balan has been creating stirs with her fabulous chemistry with Madhavan in the Airtel commercials and at the same time is keeping her fingers crossed for her forthcoming ‘Kismat Konnection’ with Shahid Kapoor. She has also signed on with Bling! Entertainment Solutions, a leading talent and celebrity management company in India, to handle her endorsement deals and other interests. But the lady is in no mood to shun away her social responsibilities too. On the eve of World Environment Day, Vidya Balan was present at a tree plantation drive held by Lanxess India along with the ‘Save The Children India‘ organization. They planted over 100 samplings in an initiative to increase the green cover and also...
Walking the ramp for designer Ritu Beri was a completely different experience for Vidya Balan. ”Vidya was surprised at her professional skills at walking the ramp even though she has never been a professional fashion model. Ritu Beri stood impressed with Vidya. She even complimented Vidya backstage”, said a source. Ritu says, ”The spirit is intrinsically feminine, romantic and bit flamboyance with embroidered bouquets and cascades of flounces, ruffles and gathers which suitably goes with Vidya.” Ritu told Vidya that she would love to have her in all the fashion shows. To that Vidya just laughed and humbly said that it was her clothes that made her stand out! Vidya also said that walking...
Vidya Balan might look really odd with young heroes like Shahid Kapur but she continues to bag biggie films with a period feel or where the heroine is supposed to look Indian. And yeah, what she’s best suited to - matured heroes! She’s starring with Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s ’Jis Lahore Nahin Dekhya Woh Jamiya Nahin.’ Thankfully she’ll be playing Sanjay Dutt’s wife in the film and isn’t the romantic interest of youngster Neil Nitin Mukesh who’s the third lead! The movie will be shot in India because according to director Santoshi shooting in Lahore is impractical as the crew mightn’t get the architecture of the partition times any more. So art designer, Nitish Roy is...
After being criticised for her figure, Vidya Balan has finally managed to get into shape. In fact, she chose a very unique way to lose those extra kilos. She simply went on a holiday to Goa for thrilling adventures like para-sailing and the likes, and returned slimmer. Also, whilst shooting in Kuala Lampur for Balki’s Paa, she used to climb up the Petronas Towers and down again.
Vidya Balan and Shahid Kapur would indeed make an unlikely pair on the silver screen. Filmmaker Aziz Mirza , who is returning to direction after a long gap, has signed Vidya and Shahid for his comeback film. Although it goes without saying that Shahid and Vidya make an odd pair, Mirza still had the two stars shoot for a photosession to make up his mind. Expectedly, the age difference between the two actors showed in the photos, with demure Vidya looking much mature and older than the chocolate boy Shahid. As a result, instead of making Shahid look older or Vidya look younger, Mirza made some changes in the movie’s script. He made Vidya’s character older than Shahid in the story. Mirza’s idea might just work,...
Akshay Kumar not just knows how to do comedy in films, but in real life as well. It is well known by now that Akshay is acting with Vidya Balan in Sajid Nadiadwala’s movie Hey Baby , being directed by Sajid Khan. While shooting the film in Australia, Akshay and other actors ( Fardeen Khan and Ritesh Deshmukh ) apparently decided to show Vidya their brand of humour. So they played a prank on her. One evening, after the day’s shooting was over (in Sydney), Akshay, Fardeen and Ritesh reportedly took the spare key of Vidya’s room from the hotel staff and hid in her room before she walked in the hotel. When Vidya entered her room, all three actors jumped out of their hiding places and screamed aloud. Daylights...
Vidya Balan recently undertook a pilgrimage and visited a famed dargah and temple in Rajasthan. Covered under a veil, the Parineeta girl visited Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti’s dargah in Ajmer. “Vidya Balan reached the shrine by a BMW car in the afternoon and spent over an hour in the shrine. She offered flowers and tied “wish threads”, said a dargah committee member. But no one could recognise her due to the veil over her face. Vidya then drove straight to the Brahma temple in Pushkar. “Dressed in an orange suit, she came here in the evening and spent about 20 minutes in the temple”, a priest said. Vidya also had a scuffle with photographers when she requested them not to click her...
Vidya Balan may replace the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai in Pa that also stars Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan . ‘Pa’ is to be directed by ad filmmaker R Balakrishnan whose maiden feature film Cheeni Kum is being appreciated all over. Although Balki (as Balakrishnan is often referred) had thought of casting Ash in the film earlier, news has come in that Vidya may step in the project instead of the Bachchan daughter-in-law in the role opposite Abhishek. ‘Pa’ will not only be produced by Sunil Manchanda, who produced ‘Cheeni Kum’, but also have musical notes from Illayaraja , who is being appreciated for his work in ‘Cheeni Kum’. ‘Pa’ is a very light comedy...