By Jilawatan

Vidya Balan may or may not know this. There are rumours that No One Killed Jessica Lal was first offered to Kareena Kapoor and she refused it .

Guess Vidya will bring her own brand of acting to it. She is, after all, the current generation’s Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil and Nandita Das all rolled into one. Eat your hearts out glam gals.

By Jilawatan

Vidya Balan is the latest big name being linked to Deepa Mehta’s upcoming film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel, Midnight’s Children.

The actress recently confirmed that she has met with the acclaimed director to discuss the possibility of playing Rani Mukerji’s sister in the film. Balan is reportedly very excited at the prospect of working with Mehta – especially given a previous attempt at collaboration a couple of years ago with a project titled Stella fell through – and though no role is confirmed yet, has put on record her statement that she “would love to work with her [Mehta]”.