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Monday, 21 April 2014

Actress - Vidya Balan Movies List

Name - Vidya Balan
Born: January 1, 1978 (age 36), Ottapalam

Height: 1.63 m

Spouse: Siddharth Roy Kapur (m. 2012)


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.


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).



YearFilm NameCast
2014Shaadi Ke Side EffectsFarhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Vir Das, Ram Kapoor, Gautami Kapoor
2013MahabharatAmitabh Bachchan, Sunny Deol, Vidya Balan, Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor
2013GhanchakkarEmraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajesh Sharma, Namit Das, Sanjay Dutt
2012Ferrari Ki SawaariSharman Joshi, Boman Irani, Ritvik Sahore, Vidya Balan, Nilesh Divekar
2012KahaaniVidya Balan,Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indraneil Sengupta, Dhritiman Chatterjee
2011The Dirty PictureVidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Imran Hasnee
2011Dum Maaro DumAbhishek Bachchan, Aditya Pancholi, Bipasha Basu, Rana Daggubati, Prateik Babbar, Vidya Balan
2011Thank YouAkshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Celina Jaitley, Irfan Khan, Vidya Balan
2010No One Killed JessicaRani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan, Myra Karn, Neil Bhoopalam, Shireesh Sharma
2010IshqiyaNaseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan, Salman Shahid, Adil Hussain
2009PaaAmitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal, Arundhati Naag
2008Kismat KonnectionVidya Balan, Vishal Malhotra, Shahid Kapoor, Om Puri, Boman Irani
2008Halla BolAjay Devgan, Vidya Balan, Pankaj Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ruby Bhatia
2007Bhool BhulaiyaaAkshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Amisha Patel, Paresh Rawal
2007Heyy BabyyAarti Chabria, Akshay Kumar, Amisha Patel, Amrita Arora, Amrita Rao, Vidya Balan
2007EklavyaAmitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Jackie Shroff, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan
2007Salaam-e-ishqSalman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Juhi Chawla, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Vidya Balan
2007GuruAbhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vidya Balan,R. Madhavan, Mallika Sherawat
2006Lage Raho MunnabhaiSanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Vidya Balan, Diya Mirza
2005ParineetaSaif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Raima Sen, Diya Mirza



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