By Jilawatan

We remember Vidya Balan as the Parineeta girl. The model turned actress hails from Kerala itself. Vidya says that she has plans to do Malayalam films in 2010. The actress has lots of offers pouring into her. She hope to do at least one film next year.

Vidya Balan has recently done her first ever negative role in the film Ishqiya starring Arshad Warsi and Nazeeruddin Shah. She said that she was very much excited to do her mother role in Paa. She played the mother of Big B and wife of Abhishek Bachchan in Paa which has now gone for international.

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Vidya Balan is happy. She is enjoying yet another success in the form of PAA, hence adding one more feather in her cap when it comes to performance oriented roles. No wonder she believes that she is fortunate to have worked in the kind of films that have not just challenged her as an actor but also time and again validated her decision making abilities.

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If Abhishek Bachchan has carried his dad playing the progeric Auro piggyback in Paa, Vidya Balan had to carry another actor playing the same character’s younger version. The problem was, the physically-challenged 3-foot actor was almost the same weight as Vidya. She tripped and fell while doing the scene.

His name is Little Kiran. But he’s anything but little age-wise. Though height-challenged 3-feet nothing, Little Kiran who has played parts in a number of Hollywood films including segments of Narnia, The Lord Of The Rings and Star Trek was brought to Mumbai to play Vidya Balan’s progeric son at a younger age than the Big B.

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She loves children and the prospect of motherhood, but Vidya Balan insists she’s not ready for marriage.

I want to get married first, but I’m not ready yet because I still haven’t found that someone,” says Vidya. However, the actress admits that shooting for Paa has taught her some things about herself. “At first, I was sceptical about taking up this role because kids are usually wary around me. I was also a bit apprehensive about playing a mother to a 13-year-old. But my brother-in-law told me that I’d never get the opportunity to act in a film like this again. So, I took it up. Once I did the film, my maternal instincts were awakened,” explains Vidya.

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Ever since she made her debut with Parineeta, Vidya Balan has worked with many a veteran filmmakers like Vidhu Vinod Chopra (Eklavya - The Royal Guard), Mani Ratnam (Guru), Priyadarshan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa), Raj Kumar Santoshi (Halla Bol) and Aziz Mirza (Kismat Konnection). Meanwhile, she has also worked with first time directors like Pradeep Sarkar (Parineeta) and Sajid Khan (Heyy Babyy) as well as one film old Raj Kumar Hirani (Lagey Raho Munnabhai) or Nikhil Advani (Salaam E Ishq).

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This is why, when she interacted with someone like Balki (who only has a Cheeni Kum behind him), what sort of change in approach did she see in them?

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She’s had a steady run, though she’s not made the superstar grade. Beginning with “Parineeta” (2005), she’s made an impact with both “Lage Raho Munnabhai” (2006) and “Bhool Bhulaiya” (2007) and has in her bag films as assorted as “Eklavya,” “Salaam-e-Ishq,” “Halla Bol,” “Guru,” “Heyy Babyy” and “Kismat Konnection.” Today, Vidya Balan has what can be considered “twin towers” on hand in terms of meaty roles — “Paa,” releasing Dec. 4, and “Ishqiya” in the following week.

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Father and son together in the same movie! But it’s not what you think! Sure, Bollywood big shot Abhishek Bachchan and his father Amitabh Bachchan co-star in R. Balki’s drama “Paa,” but in a funny twist, Abhishek will play the father and Amitabh his son! The also stars “Guru” actress Vidya Balan and “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!” star Paresh Rawal.

The drama is set to hit theaters in India on December 4 but you can already now check out the new promo “Mudi Mudi” to get in the mood for the flick! Don’t forget to drop off your comments!

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Vidya Balan, who plays Amitabh Bachchan’s mother in “Paa”, was so impressed by Abhishek’s caring behaviour towards his father during the shooting that she confesses she would like to have a son like Abhishek in real life.

“I would prefer a son like Abhishek. I have seen him with his father on the sets… he was so nice to his father that I was touched,” Vidya told reporters here Saturday.

Director R. Balakrishnan’s “Paa” is an emotional story of a father-son relationship and Amitabh will be seen as Abhishek’s 13-year-old son Auro who is suffering from a rare disease progeria, that accelerates ageing. The film releases Dec 4.

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ABCL’s ‘Paa’ is fast approaching its release this week, on 4th December. In collaboration with Reliance BIG Pictures, the film is waiting to hit nearly 700 screens across the globe on that day. For its premier, Big B has specially invited two of the reigning Khans – Shahrukh and Aamir.

Meanwhile, a special preview screening of ‘Paa’ has been organised today in London.

Directed by Balki, the film has several elements which are totally new to Indian cinema. For the first time the real life father-son (Amitabh Bachchan-Abhishek) are doing reversal roles. Amitabh plays the son who is affected by Progeria, while Abishek is his father and Vidya Balan as his mother.

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Of course, it was not Amitabh Bachchan who plays the character of Auro in Balki’s upcoming flick ‘Paa’, but a child artiste playing young Amitabh in the film who fell from Vidya Balan’s shoulder, creating commotion on the sets of the film.

Sources close to production unit reveal that the particular sequence required Vidya Balan to carry the young Amitabh (played by a child artiste) on her frail shoulders (Vidya Balan weighs only 45 kg, while the child artiste was also of the same weight). Though, it seemed rather a Herculean task for a person of Vidya Balan’s weight to carry the child of equal weight, she volunteered to complete the shot.