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Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, who has recently walked out of the movie Dhamaal 2, has lost a solo heroine role in Rascals, which is the first film of Sanjay Dutt Productions (SDP). David Dhawan is directing Rascals. Sanjay Dutt also stars Dhamaal 2 along with few other actors.

Initially, the actress agreed to be a part of Dhamaal 2 but asked for a whooping amount of Rs 1.5 crore as fee. The producers refused to pay such a huge amount and she walked out of the movie. She was then replaced by Mallika Sherawat.

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Vidya Balan, who made an award-winning debut in ‘Parineeta’, a movie that premiered at the IIFA weekend a few years ago, continued her magical journey with the event by landing the Best Actress award for ‘Paa’. Though she shared the award with Kareena Kapoor, Balan was overjoyed, but noticeably absent from the celebrations in Sri Lanka. Shlandra Bunseelall spoke to the powerhouse performer.

How does it feel to have won the Best Actress Award?

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It seems after Madhuri Dixit and Amrita Rao, it is desi girl, Vidya Balan’s turn to play the role of M.F.Hussain’s muse. Reportedly Hussain was mesmerized by Vidya’s individuality and dignity and impressed by her no-fuss natural beauty.

Apparently Hussain recently watched Vidya Balan’s super hit movie Ishqiya and was smitten by her “indianness”. According to him, Vidya epitomizes the perfect Indian ‘desi’ woman.

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Vidya has become a recluse in tinsel town: Looks like bollywood divas are insecure of Vidya Balan these days.

The Parineeta girl has been linked with almost all her co-stars. This has left her humiliated on several occasions.

Sadly these link-ups are affecting her professional life. All these are working against her.

Bong beauty warned John to no longer work with Vidya after “Salaam-e-Ishq” as a result John refused to work with Vidya in her latest movie. Even Bobby Deol has refused to work with her.

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Popular Bollywood actress Vidya Balan is all set to endorse the Price Challenge campaign of Big Bazaar. The actress has experienced huge success with her previous endorsement works. The Parineeta-fame actress will be seen in the yet-to-be launched campaign whose main objective is to showcase the intention of the brand.

This is the not the first time Vidya Balan is going to endorse a fast moving consumer goods. The talented actress was the face of the brands like Good Knight and Toshiba in the past. A typical Indian-look has earned her many endorsement deal and companies are always interested to user Vidya’s image value in promoting their products.

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Bollywood actress Vidya Balan will be conferred with the Smita Patil Memorial Award for her “outstanding” contribution to the film industry.
“Vidya Balan is an excellent actress. She is modern yet contemporary and has done decent and powerful roles. Her performance in ‘Paa’ was outstanding. Our jury has chosen her for the Smita Patil Award for her outstanding contribution to the film industry,” Priyadarshini Academy chairman Nanik Rupani told IANS.

Priyadarshini Academy is an NGO which is engaged in socio-cultural and educational activities and has been holding the biennial award function since its inception in 1984.

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Bollywood actress Vidya Balan will be conferred with the Smita Patil Memorial Award for her “outstanding” contribution to the film industry.
“Vidya Balan is an excellent actress. She is modern yet contemporary and has done decent and powerful roles. Her performance in ‘Paa’ was outstanding. Our jury has chosen her for the Smita Patil Award for her outstanding contribution to the film industry,” Priyadarshini Academy chairman Nanik Rupani told IANS.
Priyadarshini Academy is an NGO which is engaged in socio-cultural and educational activities and has been holding the biennial award function since its inception in 1984.
In 2008, Preity Zinta was felicitated with the award. Other celebrities like Yash Chopra, Karisma Kapoor, Urmila Matondkar, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit and Kareena Kapoor have also been bestowed with this award.
Vidya Balan made her debut with Pradeep Sarkar’s “Parineeta” in 2005 and later on went to give some outstanding performances in “Lage Raho Munnabhai”, “Bhool Bhulaiyaa”, “Paa” and “Ishqiya”.
The ceremony will be held Sep 19 in Oberoi Hotel, Mumbai.

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With her enchanting beauty, captivating smile and seductive ways, Vidya Balan became the fantasy woman for many with her very first Bollywood film, ‘Parineeta’. Vidya went on an award winning spree when she started her career and there was no looking back since then for this Indian beauty.

With amazing performances like ‘Paa’, ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ and ‘Ishqiya’, in 7 years, Vidya has succeeded in achieving superstardom. But there is something that sends jitters down her spine. Recently at an event Vidya divulged that she loves acting but she cannot ever think doing theatre. “I will never do theatre because I am extremely petrified of the live audience,” said Vidya.

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Bolly’s star of the moment Vidya Balan had told t2 that her Krishna in Ishqiya was an Indianised femme fatale, one who could seduce without showing too much or trying too hard. A list of some irresistible desi femme fatales…

She managed to seduce us softly with her come-hither Lolita in Parineeta. She kissed Madhavan passionately in the rain in Guru. She was all desire in those scenes with Abhishek in Paa. In Ishqiya she was the woman in heat waiting to erupt, not melt, as she kissed Arshad Warsi with an intensity never seen before in Bollywood. Give us Vidya over the Mallikas and Malaikas any day, any night.