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Today is the birthday of Vidya Balan, an actress who has received numerous national awards. Here are 10 interesting facts about the actress from "Sherni."
Today is Vidya Balan's 43rd birthday. She is an incredibly gifted actress who is best recognized for her intense on-screen personas. With her spouse Siddharth Roy Kapur and family, the national award-winning actress is allegedly organizing a special birthday celebration this year. Vidya Balan had a terrific year in 2022 thanks to the rave accolades for her lone film, Jalsa. The Padma Shri laureate has a few projects in the works and is very selective about the roles she accepts.
Here are the 7 lesser-known facts about Vidya Balan, who turns 43 today, in honor of her birthday. Look at this...
1. A Mumbai-based Tamil Brahmin girl
Vidya Balan was born into a Tamil Brahmin family from Kerala's Palakkad area, who now reside in Mumbai. She has an older sister named Priya Balan and is the second and youngest daughter of P.R. Balan and Saraswati. Vidya claims that she spoke a mixture of Tamil and Malayalam at home growing up. For those who don't know, she is the second cousin of Priya Mani, a well-known actress and National Award winner.
2. A committed actor since infancy
It's interesting to note that Vidya Balan has secretly loved performing since a very young age. She always aspired to pursue a career in acting and was greatly influenced by the movies of seasoned actors like Shabana Azmi, Sridevi, and Madhuri Dixit.
3. Career in television and first action role
At the age of 16, the National Award winner made her acting debut in Ekta Kapoor's well-known series Hum Paanch. The audience adored Vidhya Balan as Radhika, a teenage girl with glasses who appeared in the program. She eventually left television though because she wanted to focus on film.
4. A career in Malayalam industries that was terrible
In the then-prestigious production Chakram, Vidya Balan was cast as the female protagonist opposite Malayalam superstar Mohanlal when she was studying her master's degree in sociology at Mumbai University. Even though she had already committed to more than a dozen films, she finished the first schedule of shooting for the Lohitha Das-directed feature. Chakram, however, was canceled after the first schedule due to production problems, and tragically Vidya Balan earned the reputation of being a "unlucky heroine" in the business. Kalari Vikraman, the sole Malayalam project she had completed, was never released.
5. Vidya Balan's dismal film career in Tamil
Later, Vidya Balan turned her attention to the Tamil cinema business, where she quickly landed a number of promising roles, including R Madhavan's Run, which turned out to be a huge hit. She was abruptly fired from the movie, though, and Meera Jasmine took her as the leading lady. Similar to that, Meera took her place after she was fired from the Bala project. She later agreed to play the female lead in Manassellam, but the filmmakers chose to switch Trisha out because they believed she didn't match the part.
6. A career in advertising
Despite feeling discouraged by her unsuccessful South cinema career, Vidya Balan made the decision to remain involved in the entertainment industry through commercials. It's interesting to note that she appeared in over 60 television ads prior to landing her big movie role. She worked on numerous commercials with veteran director Pradeep Sarkar, who eventually had a significant part to play in her Bollywood debut.
7. When Parineeta was "replaced" by Vidya Balan as an established actress
On the director Pradeep Sarkar's advice, Vidya Balan attended the Parineeta auditions after making her Bengali film debut in Bhalo Theko. But initially, director Vidhu Vinod Chopra wanted to cast a well-known actress in the part of Lalitha. Vidya Balan persuaded Chopra to cast her for the role after she participated in numerous lengthy auditions and screen tests for the movie over the course of more than six months.
8. Vidya discusses her battle to "be someone else"
The gifted actress faced harsh criticism for her roles in movies like Heyy Baby and Kismat Connection, which showed her in a completely different light. She was also criticized by a well-known journalist for pretending to be a "Bollywood bimbette," which is obviously not who she is. Vidya Balan, on the other hand, acknowledged that throughout that time, she had been trying to be someone else. Later, she made the decision to only play the parts she truly believed in.
9. A second inning in a Malayalam movie that was cut short
Later on, Vidya Balan intended to return to Malayalam cinema by portraying the illustrious author Madhavi Kutty, a.k.a. Kamal Suraiyya, in a film on her life directed by senior director Kamal. She even undertook a photo shoot and started studying Malayalam in order to perfect her persona. Vidya eventually left the film, alleging creative differences, and the director reacted angrily, labeling her "unprofessional." But the actress choose to remain silent about it.
10. Vidya's ideal position
As Sridevi did in Mr. India, Vidya Balan stated in numerous interviews that she aspires to play Charlie Chaplin, the great comic actor, in at least one scene in one of her films.
