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Vidya Balan, who is currently being appreciated greatly for her performance in Ishqiya, will be seen in a Malayalam film soon.

She will be debuting in Malayalam with the film, Mathilukalkkappuram, opposite Mammootty. It will be directed by Prasad and will continue with Basheer’s story, i.e., it will take off from where Adoor finished.

Ravi K Chandran will be the cameraman while the sound direction will be done by Resul Pookutty. Mammootty’s production company, Playhouse, will produce the film.

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He came along like a magician and transformed Bollywood’s two classic actresses’ wardrobe from boring to being bold and beautiful! The two said actresses are Rani Mukerjee and Vidya Balan and their magician is ace fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee.

Initially trashed for their jaded fashion sense, Rani and Vidya now get featured as the most stylish Indian actresses across the media. We thus decided to ask Sabya who amongst the two is better when we bumped into him on day one of Lakme Fashion Week’10 in Mumbai. Sabya has also designed clothes for both Rani and Vidya in their forthcoming film together ‘No one killed Jessica’.

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The grapevine has been abuzz with news that Priyanka Chopra will play the female lead role in Jogayya. Director prem who is buzy with the script has denied the reports of Priyanka Chopra been selected to do female lead.

Prem says that he has shortlisted few names and Priyanka Chopra is also in the race. It’s reported that Vidya Balan Amisha Patel and Celina Jaitly are also leading the race. Shivaraj Kumar’s 100th movie Jogayya is produced by Rakshita under the banner prem pictures. Cast and crew are under wraps.

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Vidya Balan is on a signing spree. Her career is on the upswing post Paa and Ishqiya. She has even started dressing better. She is currently working on Rajkumar Gupta’s No One Killed Jessica and is also considering Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children.

Sabyasachi is one of Vidya’s favourite designers, and he styled her look in Paa. She wears his creations at events and the duo is friends. So, it is no surprise that he wants her to be part of his directorial debut. He thinks she is the quintessential Indian beauty. Prateik Babber is the male lead in the film. Konkona Sen Sharma recently said that she finds Prateik sexy and she might also sign on the dotted line.

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Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan who played son and mother in ‘Paa’ received the best actor and best actress award at the 55th filmfare awards on Saturday night. While Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘3 Idiots’ won the best film awards and Rajkumar Hirani bagged the best director award for the same film.

Music composer AR Rahman won the best music director award for ‘Delhi 6’ and Mohit Chauhan who crooned Masakali won the best male singer. Singers Kavita Seth and Rekha Bhardwaj shared the female playback singer trophy. Kavita for ‘Ik Tara’ from ‘wake Up Sid’ and Rekha for ‘Genda Phool’ from Delhi 6.
Hosts Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan again made the evening funnier with their jokes. Actor Shahid Kapur gave a stunning performance. He paid tribute to pop singer Michael Jackson.

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Here’s a new Jodi in the making. Vidya Balan and Pratik Babbar will be seen opposite each other for the first time in designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s upcoming untitled film.

According to sources, Sabyasachi is finalizing the script of his maiden film and has decided to cast close buddies Vidya Balan and Pratik Babbar in it. It’s also learnt that the designer turned filmmaker is also trying to cast actress Konkona Sen in the film but nothing is confirmed about her inclusion so far.

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That one of India’s most celebrated fashion designers, Sabyasachi Mukherjee will soon make his directorial debut is a well-known fact. The talented designer who has been painstakingly scripting his debut film is now ready to take his film on the floors in June this year.

Buzz is Sabyasachi’s close friend Vidya Balan and Pratik will star in his first film. Sabyasachi is also in talks with Konkona Sen Sharma, who had said during a recent interview that she finds Pratik very sexy. We won’t be surprised if she too signs on the dotted line.

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Two back-to-back critical and commercial successes and Vidya Balan is literally spoilt with all the appreciation coming her way. While some have marvelled at her effortless reinvention, others have insisted that she has carved a space for herself after busting the myth of power and beauty being strange bed-fellows in recent Hindi cinema. Vidya is slowly inching towards a zone that was earlier reserved for an actor like Rekha!

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Vidya Balan has been for her countless fans an image of humbled stardom. Her popularity is however, not limited to the public and audiences alone. Vidya happens to be a favorite among the producers.

The production house of her latest release Ishqiya were extremely pleased with her forward and accommodating approach even post the completion of shooting schedules during the promotion campaigns for the movie. They were impressed by her easy adjustments when they toured as far as the interiors of Rajasthan.