By Jilawatan

Dabur has appointed actress Vidya Balan as its brand ambassador for the skin care product called Dabur Vveda. Balan started her career as a model in Surf Excel advertisement and has appeared in more than 25 ad films like Ponds, Bajaj, Surf, Toshiba, Airtel etc.

Before getting a break in Bollywood, she also acted in a few music videos with Euphoria, Shubha Mudgal, Pankaj Udhas etc. as well as TV serials such as Hanste Khelte and Hum Paanch. Balan has come a long way and has done some of the much talked about films like Parineeta, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Guru, Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love, Eklavya: The Royal Guard, Heyy Babyy, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Halla Bol and Kismat Konnection.

Her forthcoming films are Mukti, Ishkiyan, Pa, Chand Bhai, Chenab Gandhi and Bihaad.

By Jilawatan

Vidya Balan’s Parineeta look is passé though according to many the actress looked her best in a sari, bindi and the whole coy look that she sported in the film. With Heyy Babyy, Vidya tried to reinvent herself in a modern avatar as she donned unflattering western outfits that looked anything but good on her. With Kismat Konnection she yet again tried the western look but failed to impress once again. Looks like bored with her umpteen ‘western’ attempts Vidya has decided to go the extremes…err we mean extreme desi in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Ishqiya.

Vidya’s desi-giri includes swearing in pure Hindi, conning the heroes of Hindi cinema Arshad and Naseeruddin Shah by batting those pretty eye lashes like a true gau ki gori and then even not minding rendering a hot smooch onscreen!

The promo of Vishal Bharadwaj’s forthcoming film Ishqiya is out and one can’t help but notice the 180 degree turn in Vidya’s onscreen image. The otherwise classy actress has displayed a rare side of her onscreen persona, a rawness in her performance that one barely gets to see.

Vidya’s ‘bold’ look comes as a welcome change to her fans who were a bit frustrated with her holier than thou roles. Vidya is all set to enter the dark zone by playing a negative role in Ishkiyan and it seems interesting.

By Jilawatan

Vidya balan has given some really intimate scenes in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Ishkiyan. All her hot scenes in the film are with arshad warsi. Vidya play’s a slightly grey character in the film who fools the uncle-nephew jodi of Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi.

A unit source reveals, “She indeed has quiet a few hot love-making sequences in the film but the scenes have been aesthetically shot. Vishal Bharadwaj is simply too glad with the way the actress has performed her act in the film without any inhibitions. But this is not the first time that the actress has done such scenes. She had been sensuous in her debut venture Parineeta earlier as well and in Heyy Babyy too with Akshay Kumar.”

In Ishkiyan Vidya is playing a very complex character and will be seen speaking the U.P dialect which is very akin to Vishal Bharadwaj’s movies. She also has a very different look in the film. She will certainly take away accolades after the release reveal unit sources.

Vidya’s career too seems to be on an all new high now. It has been heard that the actress has also been signed for Nikhil Advani’s Chandbhai opposite Akshay Kumar. The film is a tough love story set in a juvenile detention facility. She will also be seen working with two legendary actors – Naseeruddin Shah in Ishqiyan and Amitabh Bachchan in Balki’s Paa and Sanjay Leela’s Chenab Gandhi.

Vidya Balan is quite relieved nowadays as she has been spared of a link-up with her co-star Arshad Warsi with whom she is shooting for Ishkiyan.

“Vidya is happy that this time the media will not be able to link her with her co-star. Arshad is her good friend and he is happily married with two kids. So she is glad that she will be spared any link-ups this time,” a source said.

The two are shooting in Wai for Vishal Bharadwaj’s Ishkiyan. In the past, Vidya has been linked to all her co-stars including Shahid Kapur, Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham. She was also linked to Sajid Khan, who directed her in Akshay Kumar- starrer Heyy Babby.

Vidya Balan, Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin Shah have been signed for ‘Ishkiyan’ which is being produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and directed by his assistant director Abhishek Chaubey. Apparently, the film has the same UP dialect as in Vishal’s earlier film ‘Omkara’.

Now, for ‘Omkara’, Konkona had been tutored by Vishal to help her deliver her dialogues in UP dialect confidently, Konkona being a Bengali and yes, Konkona went on to win a National Award for her character in ‘Omkara’.

This time Vidya Balan, being a South India, expressed her inability to deliver the lines fluently in that chaste UP dialect. Vishal and Vidya then mutually agreed upon having a special tutor for her to learn the dialect and get well versed with the perfect tone of delivering it.

Vidya’s character in the film has few gray shades and she is supposed to fool the uncle and nephew duo of Naseer and Arshad in it. The film shoot begins from mid October and will be majorly shot in the parts of eastern UP and Delhi.