In a bid to promote their latest release, Priyadarshan’s Bhool Bhulaiya ,Vidya and Shiny will grace the small screen by making an appearance in Nach Baliye 3 as celebrity judges.

Actress Vidya Balan says the fun quotient is getting better for her with every movie. “First Parineeta, then Salaam-e-Ishq, followed by Hey Babyy and now Bhool Bhulaiya with Priyadarshan. All of them were loads of fun,” says the actress.

The actress can’t stop giggling when she remembers the shooting of Hey Babyy in Australia and can’t stop giggling about it.

“Akshay, and director Sajid Khan and producer Sajid Nadiadwala, are a delight. All the three share great vibes with me. Sajid Khan and I have been buddies for years. It was one group of mad-hatters. Fun was the main issue in Australia. Work was in automation,” the actress said.

Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan sizzles at Sabyasachi Mukherjee show at Lakme Fashion Week 2008. Most awaited show of Lakme Fashion Week and Sabyasachi Mukherjee didn’t disappoint with his Autumn/Winter 2008 collection, Sanctuary. Rahul Bose, Anjala Zaveri, Simone Singh also present at Sabyasachi show.

When Rakhi Sawant invited Vidya Balan on her new talk-show Vidya said yes without a moment’s hesitation. That Aamir Khan also turned up to be part of Rakhi’s show was a bonus Vidya hadn’t anticipated.

“Rakhi recorded with me and Aamir on Tuesday. I finished my episode with her and then Aamir came in. I think he will be her guest on her first episode.And I’m on her second episode.”

This is as close as Vidya has got to Aamir so far. She feels it’s an omen that they’ll sign a film together. And she has only Rakhi to thank for it.

There’s a buzz that Shahid Kapur once cribbed about not getting a chance to work with good actresses since most of them were older than him, were from the previous generation and things like that!

Now since he looks younger than his age, most people felt that he looked best only with the likes of Ayesha Takia and Amrita Rao and not even ex-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor before their sole hit together – ‘Jab We Met’.

But since he can’t be paired with the same girls over and over again, he ended up getting paired with the much older Vidya Balan in ‘Kismat Konnection’.

How far does the need to be included take you away from the person you are? Very far ! I would say, seeing Vidya Balan. Or else, in just a couple of years with almost five or more films down, you cannot go from being a ‘refreshing change’ to a ‘wannabe’! I never thought someone with her screen presence would ever have to be shaken awake for sleep-walking through her career…..

Vidya Balan will be joining the fashion show to promote the Priya and Chintan’s collections. She will walk the ramp with modelsJesse Randhawa, Sheetal Malhar, Tapur Chaterjee and Nethra Raghuraman.

The collection is shown at a fundraiser in New York.

The fundraiser is in aid for the Nargin Dutt Foundation and Vidya will walk the ramp.

Vidya Balan unveiled the trophy ‘Apsara’ to be presented to the winners at Film & Television Producers Guild Awards. Nominations for the Film and Television Producers Guild awards were announced with last year’s hits like ‘Chak De India’, ‘Jab We Met’ and ‘Guru’ vying for the top film category.
The awards divided into two groups - popular and technical categories - will be given at a ceremony on March 30.

Shah Rukh Khan (Chak De), Shahid Kapur (Jab we Met), Amitabh Bachchan (Cheeni Kum) and his son Abhishek (Guru) are competing for the best actor’s award while his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai (Guru), Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met) and Shilpa Shetty (Life in a Metro) are in contention for best actress.

The Hindi film “Parineeta” that was released in 2005 has been made from Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyaya novel but the film was initially made by Bimal Roy with the same name and the lead role Lalita, played by Vidya Balan in 2005 film, was played by Meena Kumari. The actor in lead role opposite Meena Kumari was Ashok Kumar.

Vidya Balan is one of those method actors who love to get into the skin of their roles. She has portrayed different roles in her previous films and now she is all set to play vamp from Uttar Pradesh in Vishal Bhardwaj’s forthcoming film Ishqiya. Vidya who loves to make her character believable is learning the typical UP dialect.

Apparently the decision to learn the correct UP dialect was mutual. Since Vidya who is South Indian and has good command over Hindi, but when it came to the authentic UP language Vidya needed a tutor. A unit hand informs that Vidya has been given a tutor who is teaching her the local UP dialect. The film has a backdrop of Gorakhpur where people talk in the local UP language.