Bollywood actress Vidya Balan is doing every bit that she can to deliver her best in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Ishqiya. For this, she even joined a 10-day workshop with her co-star Naseeruddin Shah.

“The character that Vidya is playing in Ishqiya is very complex and difficult to enact. Vidya thought that the way to emote the character on screen was best learnt from Naseeruddin Shah because the veteran actor is a master at it,” a source close to the actress said.

But Akshay Kumar insists that they were a group of five heroes. “Vidya is our hero. She is a buddy and one of us,” he said. “We didn’t treat her any different.” Fads, Rits and Sajid, too, say the same thing about her — you know those ‘she’s one of the guys’ kinda thing. ‘Boy-o-boy’, kya bonding hai !

Vidya ko gussa kyun aata hai?? Well….kyunki, Vidya hates to be compared to Bebo. While the character Vidya plays in Kismet Konnection has a resemblance with Kareena Kapoor’s character of Geet in Jab we Met, Vidya seriously hates it when people try mentioning this similariy to her.

“You may have found similarities in our characters but I have played it quite in a different way. Priya is much different from Geet and they cannot be compared,” says Vidya teying very hard not to lose her temper.

Okay Okay girl… We wouldn’t compare u with Kareena… Gawd….u scared us!!!

The pretty woman insists that contrary to the popular notion she’s not a “foodie” or even finicky about her food. She enjoys even a plateful of rice and boiled dal. However, she does admits that there are some meals that she relishes more than most. A mouthful of delicacies from Vidya Balan.

Parathas: I absolutely freak out on parathas of any kind. Aloo parathas, gobi parathas, paneer parathas…They’re all yummy! When we were shooting for Bhool Bhulaiya I got hooked on Priyadarshan’s tiffin for its parathas, karele ki sabzi and a raagi sewaiyan that’s like steamed noodles and great for someone on a diet.

Vidya Balan was recently a guest on Sajid Khan’s chat show and she made some shocking statements. She openly declared love for Bollywood’s baadshah Shahrukh Khan.

When Sajid asked Vidya about her latest crush, pat came the reply from Vidya - Shahrukh Khan. Sajid teased her and warned her that Gauri Khan would be watching the show. But Vidya said, she would be even willing to kill Gauri Khan to get the man of her dreams.

Well… in that case Vidya… you are in cue. There must be a million other women hoping the same.

It would’ve been a big shock to Airtel, having their entire teaser campaign hijacked by BIG. Painstakingly created, their four ads conveyed four different aspects of the service and had the ‘See you at home’ and the red couch in common. Though I missed the ads, I read this report about Airtel’s launch of their DTH service on a particular day, told my wife that it was Airtel’s DTH service, only to be given a look of scorn when BIG ‘revealed’ the couch and the service’s key features. From my reaction, I can imagine the sheer rage and frustration that JWT and Airtel must’ve felt after spending time, money and energy on the teasers. I can also imagine the Mudra guy devilishly grinning with a ‘Yeah, see you at home’ mutter when the guerilla idea struck him. I wonder of this will be a strong case against teasers and will go down in history as the most quoted example against brands which want to do a bit of teasing.

Dressed in a traditional Malayali sari — just for BT — Vidya Balan gets out of her car and into Banana Leaf, a South Indian restaurant Andheri.

This is her first time there, and every waiter is keen to serve her a dish or two. Over some delicious South Indian cuisine, I get talking to this actress, who hails from Palakkad, a district that connects Kerala to the plains of Tamil Nadu. “Our customs, rituals, language and food is a mixture of these two states,” she informs me, “While the concept of idlis in our diet comes from Tamil Nadu, the appam and the stew comes from Kerala.”

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

Vidya Balan, who began her career starring in many music videos, soap operas and commercials, made her acting debut in the Bengali film, Bhalo Theko (2003), for which she won critical acclaim. She later made her Hindi film debut with Parineeta (2005), for which she received a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award, and received her first commercial success with Rajkumar Hirani’s Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006). Balan has thus established herself as one of the most promising actresses of the industry.

This is something that has been bothering me for quite some time. Vidya Balan gets an awful lot of negative press for her alleged chunkiness. I would like to refute that allegation and instead lay the blame firmly at the feet of those people in charge of her styling - or who have let her style herself, if that is the case.

Do you think, actor John Abraham is a gay icon?  well atleast vidya balan has different point of view.

His latest role in Dostana in which he strips down to his bare minimum, has found not only many takers among his females fans, but also has men – especially those from the gay community.

The community is really glad to his bare body. And John has been given the tag of being the new gay icon by the community.

And guess what? John doesn’t find it the least offending, and neither his lady love Bipasha has any objections to it.