Big B, Vidya bag best actors awards

March 1st, 2010

By Jilawatan

Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan who played son and mother in ‘Paa’ received the best actor and best actress award at the 55th filmfare awards on Saturday night. While Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘3 Idiots’ won the best film awards and Rajkumar Hirani bagged the best director award for the same film.

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Music composer AR Rahman won the best music director award for ‘Delhi 6’ and Mohit Chauhan who crooned Masakali won the best male singer. Singers Kavita Seth and Rekha Bhardwaj shared the female playback singer trophy. Kavita for ‘Ik Tara’ from ‘wake Up Sid’ and Rekha for ‘Genda Phool’ from Delhi 6.
Hosts Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan again made the evening funnier with their jokes. Actor Shahid Kapur gave a stunning performance. He paid tribute to pop singer Michael Jackson.

Is she really to be blamed?

June 21st, 2009

By Jilawatan

vidyajune25_full“Lage Raho Munnabhai” director Rajkumar Hirani is currently shooting his film “Three Idiots” with Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor. The movie is based on Chetan Bhagat’s book “Five Point Someone”.

Apparently, Vidya Balan is miffed with Hirani for not casting her in the lead role in the film.

It seems it was Vidya who introduced Hirani to Bhagat’s novel. Hirani decided to make a movie based on the book, but took Kareena in the lead instead of Vidya.
He did offer Vidya a cameo role in the movie, but Vidya was in no mood to play the second lead. This caused a rift between the director and the actress.