Friday, April 20, 2012

Dinesh Kamath's old article on Vidya Balan that was published in Newsband



Vidya Balan has joined Achievers' Club. Vidya will be seen sharing her secrets, rise to fame and life story at a special 14-part televised series Achievers' Club. The Achiever's Club will showcase the glittery, glamorous and fabulous lives of self-made achievers of India. The Achievers' Club is an exclusive series where India's most celebrated achievers like KP Singh, Vidya Balan, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Naveen Jindal, Manish Arora, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and many more will share their success mantras and millionaire lifestyle with the host Vir Sanghvi. Their main aim is to showcase to the world the celebrated life of achievers, their lifestyle and their passions as shared with Vir Sanghvi in the series. Each episode showcases the lifestyle of famous achievers and their homes, their passions and their celebrated life including their vacation homes, luxury cars, planes, yachts et al. The show aims to see the real lives of the self made achievers who are the inspiration to humanity through each episode.
Vidya Balan's The Dirty Picture grabbed maximum eyeballs on the mobile platform in 2011 announced by Vuclip, the world's largest independent mobile video company. Mobile videos relating to Vidya Balan's The Dirty Picture were the most watched in India, with over 13 lakh 24 thousand views on mobiles. Vidya now holds an enviable position in the Hindi film industry.
Vidya is a marvellous actress. She has been very brave, not just worked very hard but she is courageous in her choice of work. It is a testimony to her courage that she is in a position that most of our leading ladies would envy her today. Vidya is the only actress around whom a woman-centric script can be woven. It's a wonderful thing. So hats off to the girl.
Vidya Balan is flooded with South offers. She has redefined sexy and oomph with her act in The Dirty Picture so much so that she may just be touted to be the 'sexiest vegetarian', a tag that followed Kareena Kapoor for years. Thanks to her bold, uninhibited act as Silk in The Dirty Picture, producers from down South are keen to have Vidya as the lead in some of their movies. Vidya Balan, a South Indian herself has no qualms. She would love to do a South Indian movie if the script offered to her is a good one. Art has no geographical boundaries after all. Also, Vidya can speak nine languages and would love to learn some more. So when she dubs, she prefers dubbing her part herself. It makes the picture more complete that way.
Next for Vidya is Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani. It's a beautiful story. It was flattering for her when Sujoy told her he had written the script keeping her in his mind.
Vidya's talent needs no name. Ekta Kapoor, the producer of The Dirty Picture, called movie's heroine Vidya Balan as Vidya Balan Khan. Apparently, she said this as the actress had carried the movie on her shoulders as only the Bollywood Khans are capable of doing it. No sooner, Shah Rukh Khan heard it than he reacted. He said that if Vidya Balan gets married to him, he wouldn't mind putting her surname after his name. He praised the hard work as well as the talent of Vidya Balan.
Vidya Balan has shown her talent and guts by playing a new and sexy avatar without any inhibition. It is being wondered in industry circles if any other actress, including those who are known as bold and sexy, could act as Vidya has done in The Dirty Picture. It's not without any reason that most of the present day girls have showered all kind of praise on Vidya Balan who was until now known for her the next-door girl image only.
The Dirty Picture actor is offered two films opposite the serial kisser Emraan Hashmi. But she isn't jumping with joy to sign on for them. Ever since the unlikely pair of Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi got raves for their smoldering chemistry in The Dirty Picture, filmmakers have flocked outside their respective doors to sign them on together. Maybe there are more projects in store for them together, but as of now there are two filmmakers who are trying very hard to get the TDP actors into the same frame again. One is Vishal Bhardwaj (for Daayaan) and the other is Rajkumar Gupta (for Ghanchakkar). Vidya hasn't said no to either. She is considering both, but stuck with a terrible dilemma to decide on. Vidya doesn't want to do both films with the same star as hero, since she believes that doing too many projects with Emraan will kill the sizzle and the surprise element of their pairing. Repeating actors who have struck gold in their last film doesn't mean guaranteed success. Our filmmakers desperately need to get innovative and, as for creating crackling onscreen chemistry, Vidya will manage to do it with any actor. Remember in TDP she managed to evoke sexual interest even from the usually 'clean' Tusshar Kapoor. Vidya's bindass performance was a source of inspiration for the Golmaal actor. Emraan too changed his face for TDP, becoming a far more whitewashed avatar of his usual grey self.
Vidya-Farhan might get paired in Shaadi Ke Side Effects. Remember the Mallika Sherawat-Rahul Bose starrer Pyaar Ke Side Effects? The makers of the film are now planning a sequel to Saket Chaudhary's 2006 hit, titled Shaadi Ke Side Effects. However, they are looking for a new pair to cast this time. Interestingly, Vidya Balan has been offered the part of the female lead, and Farhan Akhtar, the male. Meanwhile, Vidya is yet to decide what she feels like doing next. She has not signed any new film yet. She is hearing a lot of scripts. Let's see how things go. This year, She hasn't had the time to sit through narrations or read scripts actually. It takes her a long time to decide which film to do and which ones to turn down,”
Recently, at one stage, 'Kolaveri di' hitmaker Dhanush, actress Vidya Balan along with many other celebrities were in the race to become the “India's Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2011". The competition was conducted by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Vidya Balan promoted The Dirty Picture by wearing her version of the ethnic style. She chose to splash a whole lot of bright colours on it and added little funkiness by teaming it up with a shocking pink bindi. Diagonally draping a red odhni over a golden choli, Balan ditched jazzy designer couture for this unconventional ethnic style. Vidya has put plunge cholis on fashion map. Many actresses have worn a 'Choli' (without a pallu of course!) in contemporary Bollywood movies, but nothing comes close to Vidya Balan's elan and confidence to pull off the quarter-sleeved, bright-coloured, pearl-embellished, and generous cleavage-revealing blouses in her latest film The Dirty Picture. The look is simple and sassy. Crimson reds, bold purples and pretty pinks paired with sarees and petticoat skirts have revisited the Indian film industry, and the style, looks like, is here to stay. Wide necks giving ample view of the cleavage and the hems done up in glitzy golden threadwork have suddenly gained popularity.
Thus Vidya is the one actress who made the audience drool with her voluptuous body attired in cholis of audacious cuts and bold necklines in The Dirty Picture. I've not finished with Vidya yet and hence I'll continue with her tomorrow too. Till then, good bye!

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