Vidya Balan 'comfortable with bold scenes'

Vidya Balan has said that she was comfortable shooting the bold scenes for her film The Dirty Picture.

The star said that her lack of concern was down to being in the "trusted hands" of director Milan Luthria.

According to IANS, Balan told reporters: "I have never enjoyed being a woman more than I did while shooting for The Dirty Picture. I wasn't uncomfortable doing bold scenes because I knew I was in trusted hands."

Balan portrays the rise and fall of South Indian screen siren Silk Smitha in a film which also stars Tusshar Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi and Naseeruddin Shah.

Speaking at the theatrical launch of the film, the actress said: "I have worked with Naseer before but this time it was easier… I was less nervous this time."

On working with Hashmi, with whom she has an intimate scene, she said: "I was wondering how it would be with Emraan, but it was fun."

The project has been made by the same team behind the 2010 release Once Upon A Time In Mumbai.

The Dirty Picture releases on December 2.

Vidya's strip tease in

Vidya Balan, who is portraying Southern siren Silk Smitha in Ekta Kapoor's The Dirty Picture, can be seen in a sensual avatar in a red hot sari. Tusshar Kapoor holds her sari by one end and Vidya swirls away from him stripping off her sari.

The film also stars Naseeruddin Shah and Emraan Hashmi. It's a biopic on sex icon Silk Smitha. The actor was found dead in her Chennai apartment in 1996.Vidya Balan, who is portraying Southern siren Silk Smitha in Ekta Kapoor's The Dirty Picture, can be seen in a sensual avatar in a red hot sari. Tusshar Kapoor holds her sari by one end and Vidya swirls away from him stripping off her sari.

The film, directed by Milan Luthria, will be released on December 2 which is Smitha's birth date. Ekta Kapoor (producer) refers to her as one of the muses in the film. Ekta told HT: "It's a beautiful coincidence since she is one of our muses, along with other Southern actors like Shakeela, Nylon Nandini and Polyester Padmini."

"My film is not inspired by any one of them, but is a reflection of an era when they used their sexuality to carve a niche for themselves in the male-dominated South film industry. Many frowned upon them, but they were survivors and their power over the masses cannot be denied," she added.

The Dirty Picture is touted to be Ekta's boldest film till date leaving behind Ragini MMS, Shor In The City and Love Sex Aur Dhokha.

Vidya-Tusshar passionate kiss

Nervous as hell about his first screen kiss it seems Tusshar Kapoor is not destined to kiss Vidya Balan for The Dirty Picture in a hurry. As per the script the torrid smooch between the couple is mandatory.

However when it came to actually shooting the kiss a series of circumstances have somehow aborted the proposed kiss. It started with the lack of rehearsals for the sequence.

The latest setback was a dragonfly attack in Hyderabad on location just when the long-due kiss was to be shot.

The much-discussed seduction sequence between Vidya Balan and Tusshar Kapoor was to be shot before Vidya Balan left for a brief holiday. And now everyone is wondering when the kiss would actually happen.

Says Tusshar, “Yeah, I don’t know why. The kiss with Vidya just hasn’t happened so far. I was very nervous about doing the intimate scenes.

The director Milan Luthria assured me Vidya and I would be comfortable in the intimate moments after rehearsals. But the rehearsals for the love scenes didn’t happen. We both got busy with other things. Then there was dragon-fly attack and we had to pack up abruptly. ”

Now Tusshar has suddenly signed a new film, Samir Karnik’s comedy about star-crossed Rajasthani-Punjabi lovers, played by Tusshar and Kulraj Randhawa which would now have to be accommodated into his Dirty Picture schedule, along with the sequel to Kya Kool Hain Hum.

So where does that leave the fugitive kiss?

Laughs Tusshar nervously, “Hopefully we’ll shot the kiss soon. If God and the dragonflies allow.

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Actress Vidya Balan, who will be doing a special song in Urumi, says it is a gift to her parents as they always wanted to see her in a Malayalam film.

Directed by Santosh Sivan, Urumi is a historical film, starring Prithviraj, Genelia D'Souza and Prabhu Deva, besides Vidya, Arya, and Tabu in cameo appearances.

"I have done a song and few scenes. I did it because my parents always wanted me to do a Malayalam film. So it is my gift to them," Vidya said in an interview.

About the song, the actress said, "It is not an item song as I play an oracle. It is not item song in the way we see it...it is just a special appearance song."

The actress has also dubbed for the movie in her own voice. "I was really happy doing dubbing because my mother came to studio for the first time. She studied the scene and complimented me for it. I was thrilled," the 33-year-old actress said.

Vidya will be seen next in Sujoy Gosh's Kahaani, a thriller that releases on June 17.

"I am playing a pregnant woman who comes down from London to Kolkata in search of her husband who has gone missing. So it's a search story," Vidya said.

The actress received kudos for her power-packed performance in No One Killed Jessica.

"I am thrilled and humbled that No One Killed Jessica got me the appreciation and it did commercially well. Lot of people used to say that a film with two heroines and no hero will not do well commercially. But the movie has changed that perception."

When asked if she is doing Rajnikant-starrer Raana, Vidya refused to comment.

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These days when ever we hear of Silk Smitha, next moment we confirm it with film 'Dirty Picture' of Vidya Balan. The name of south seductress Silk is enough to generate the feeling of lust. Apparently many feel that it would be challenging for Vidya Balan to portray the character. When you ask Vidya Balan on same question, she has something different in mind.

"Never the less film is an ode to the life of sexy siren Vijaya Lakshmi better known later as Silk Smitha and her journey to stardom followed by mysterious death. What I feel is, playing the character of Indira Gandhi is hard than Silk Smitha. People know the mannerisms of Indira Gandhi and we can't go wrong. Same applies even for Amitabh Bachchan while Silk Smitha is going to be my personal interpretation than impersonation," says Vidya Balan on taking the sex symbol of South cinema.

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Biography

Vidya Balan is a Tamilian from Kerala. She is from the Iyer community. She comes from a middleclass family from Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. 

Vidya did her schooling from St Antony's School and later on joined St Xavier's College from where she graduated in sociology. 

When she was doing her MA from Mumbai University, she was offered a role in a Malayalam film titled Chakram with Mohanlal, one of Vidya’s favorite actors. However, the project was shelved mid-way and Vidya had to wait for few more years to make her movie debut. 

She made her debut as a model in a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998. She has acted in scores of ad films, most of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

A couple of months later, she featured in three music videos (again directed by Sarkar) for ‘Euphoria’, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas. 

Vidya Balan started work as an actress in the Malayalam movie Chakram, paired against Mohanlal, however the film was abandoned mid-way through production. After making her debut in television advertising as a model for a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998, she proceeded to do over 25 TV ads, (mostly directed by Pradeep Sarkar), followed with a variety of acting stints in music videos (Euphoria, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas), Hindi TV soap operas (Hanste Khelte and Hum Paanch) and a Bengali movie, Bhaalo Theko, for which she won the Best Actress Anand Lok Puraskar award in Kolkata.

Hanste Khelte and Ektaa Kapoor's Hum Paanch.

In the meantime, she acted in Bengali movie Bhalo Theko with actor Joy Sengupta. She even won the ‘best actress’ Anand Lok Puraskar in Kolkata for her performance in the movie. 

It was in Mumbai, during a pop concert, when filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra approached her to play the female lead in his movie Parineeta, to be directed by Pradeep Sarkar. 

Vidya had to go through 40 screen tests and 17 make-up shoots before she was finally chosen for the lead role in the film.

Vidya has a very traditional Indian look in contrast to most of today's Bollywood starlets. She is associated with AmFar (Americans for AIDS Research) and Hale House, a home for children born with HIV and those affected by Drug Addiction. She also involves herself with the Harvard AIDS Institute, by Hosting Forums and participating in events throughout the year. No wonder that Vidya Balan is one of the most talked about names in Bollywood today.

Date of Birth :	January 1, 1982
Education :	St. Antony's School and St. Xavier's College
Family :	Father - P R Balan (Vice-President of ETC   channel), Mother (House maker), Elder Sister.
City :	Palghat, Kerala
Occupation :	Bollywood actress and Fashion Model
Debut Film :	Parineeta
Languages :	Tamil, Hindi, English, Malayalam, Bengali
Awards :	Star Screen Award Most Promising Newcomer - Female, Parineeta (2005), Filmfare Best Debut Award, Parineeta (2005) Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut, Parineeta (2005) IIFA Award Best Female Debut, Parineeta (2005) Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow - Female, Parineeta (2005).

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