Vidya Balan

By Jilawatan

Sonakshi Sinha may be the flavour of this season given the fact that her debut film is still plucking awards here and there, but there is a parallel debate going on about this DABANGG girl and that has to do with the kind of roles that she has chosen to play.

Increasingly many industry insiders are tracing parallels between Sonakshi Sinha and Vidya Balan. Though the two actresses might actually belong to different generations, but it seems they have a lot in common.

SONAKSHI SINHA and VIDYA BALAN

Adds our source, “The reason for drawing comparisons between Vidya Balan and Sonakshi Sinha have their own logic. Firstly, like Vidya, Sonakshi is trying to project an image of the earthly heroine. Not only that, both Vidya and Sonakshi are reluctant to expose their bodies beyond a certain point. While, Vidya might have changed her ideas now given the fact that her upcoming film THE DIRTY PICTURE will have lot of skin show, Sonakshi for the moment seems to be overlooking this fact.”

No one can deny that bollywood actresses who have tried to play safe have ended up paying big time and even changing their stand later, Sonakshi Sinha seems to be making the same mistake. Adds a bollywood veteran, “Vidya Balan has come a long way. Now, she has no issues with exposing her body. I think it dawned on her late that bollywood actresses with little sex-quotient don’t make up for popular icons. Now, she is trying to go for an image makeover with THE DIRTY PICTURE.”

Now, the onus is on Sonakshi to take a few tips from Vidya. Her ban on bikinis and exposing her body is not a success formula that worked with her apparent inspiration Vidya Balan, so most likely it won’t work for her too.

By Jilawatan

The 12th edition of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) concluded with the presentation of the Ficci-Frames Excellence awards.

The awards honoured excellence across four major entertainment verticals cinema, television, music and radio.

Starting with the film awards, Dabangg bagged two awards – one for best film of the year and the other for the best music of the year.

Shah Rukh Khan was adjudged the best actor for his role in My Name is Khan while Karan Johar took home the best director award for the same film. As anticipated, Vidya Balan took home the best actress award for Ishqiya.

The highlight of the awards ceremony was Ficci conferring the Excellence International honour to Hugh Jackman, the Australian actor best known as Wolverine in the X-Men series.

In the best debutant category (female), Sonakshi Sinha bagged the award for her performance in Dabangg, while Ranveer Singh collected the best debutant (male) award for his role in Band Baaja Baaraat. Maneesh Sharma won the best director debut trophy for the same film.

Aishwariya Rai Bachchan was honoured with the ‘Decade of Global Achievement’ award for her completing a decade in Hindi cinema.

In the Television category, Star Plus was given the most successful television channel of the year award while Sony’s popular reality show Indian Idol-5 was declared the most successful non-fiction show.

In the acting category, Sushant Singh Rajput from Pavitra Rishta bagged the best actor (male) award, while Rashmi Desai of Uttaran took home the best actor (female) award.

Radio Mirchi was declared the ‘Most Successful Radio Channel’ of the year.

Speaking on the occasion, Ficci Entertainment Committee chairman Yash Chopra said: “The entertainment industry in India is booming along with business excellence and we are happy to recognise such levels of talent in the respective fields. We take pride in honouring best performers for their contributions in their area of work.”

The event was a joint venture between Wizcraft International Entertainment and Ficci to honour talent for their contribution in the entertainment industry.

By Jilawatan

Bollywood flicks are popular not only inside the boundaries of the Indian sub continent but also across the world. Therefore, it is no wonder that the Hindi movie fans will be inquisitive about the actors and actresses of the tinsel town. There are times when the inquisitiveness reaches the limit of madness. There are certain elements in the industry that try to leverage profit from the popularity of the cine stars. The Bollywood actresses are the common victims of this vicious cycle. It is a common practise to super impose the faces of the heroines on the body of a naked model.

Pooja Bhatt was the first well known victim of this disgraceful practise. Naked pictures of the heroine appeared on the internet, and were the talk of the town. The agitated heroine and her father, famous director Mahesh Bhatt fought back against this shameful incident. However, the ugly trend hasn’t stopped and has picked momentum nowadays. In the recent past morphed pictures of Bollywood beauty Katrina Kaif and Sonakshi Sinha have appeared on the net. Sonakshi was fast to react and announced in her social networking site that the pictures were fake. This some what reduced the popularity of the circulating photos.

The latest victim of Bollywood is none other than the voluptuous south Indian beauty, Vidya Balan. Bikini clad sensuous photo shoots of the heroine has recently appeared on the “world wide web” and has become the hot property. The popularity garnered by the photos in a short span of time is unparallel. The photos show the diva appearing on the cover of the famous international men’s magazine, Maxim; wearing almost transparent black bikini. The fans of Vidya Balan were surprised as the heroine never appeared on such bold photo shoots.

An angry Vidya told that she has never participated in such a photo shoot and the pictures were morphed. The publishers of the magazine Maxim has also stated that they are in no way related with the photos. The photos are claimed to be on the cover of the 2011 annual issue of the magazine, which is not yet published.

The actress is shooting overseas at the moment and is devastated about the present development. She plans to take legal actions against the websites or culprits who are behind this act. It is rumoured that Sonakshi Sinha and Katrina Kaif are also planning to take legal actions against the culprits who morphed their pictures. Lets hope that the culprits are brought to the book and this malpractice gets terminated for ever

By Jilawatan

Search for Vidya Balan online and be prepared for some racy pictures. You will definitely find one of Vidya in a lacy, black bikini or an even more revealing silver number.

Many were shocked by the steamy photos, but no one more than Vidya herself! When asked about her “debut” on Maxim Magazine, she believed someone had made a mistake. She told TOI, “When I heard there was a picture of me in a bikini on a magazine cover, I thought someone was being mistaken for me because I haven’t done a shoot like this. But I was shocked when I saw it. I will be taking proper legal action against the people who are responsible for this.”

The photograph uses photo software to morph an existing picture of Vidya’s face onto the body of someone else. Last December, a similar morphed photo appeared of Sonakshi Sinha on Maxim magazine’s cover. Other actresses to fall victim to this kind of defamation include Khushboo and Celina Jaitly.

Vidya’s introduction into Bollywood was defined by traditional and modest roles. However, after her most recent releases – Ishqiya and No One Killed Jessica, Vidya teeters on that line between bold and controversial and the actress is not stopping there. Her forthcoming projects include the intriguing The Dirty Picture playing Bollywoo’s Silk Smitha.

By Jilawatan

After Sonakshi Sinha, Vidya Balan has become the latest victim of Photoshop. It has emerged that a picture showing her in a black bikini on the cover of a men’s magazine is a doctored one.

The picture has been doing rounds online, but is clearly a fake one, reports Mid Day.

The magazine has denied featuring Vidya Balan ever on their cover. Also the cover was marked as Annual 2011 issue, which cannot be true as the year has just begun.

Though Vidya Balan was not in town, a source close to the actress told Mid Day that she never did this photoshoot.

By Jilawatan

Taking cognizance of a complaint petition filed against cine stars Katrina Kaif, Vidya Balan and Sonakshi Sinha for allegedly spreading vulgarity in the society, sub-judge I B P Singh, who was in-charge of the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Muzaffarpur, on Monday said that the regular CJM, Muzaffarpur, would look into the matter.

A Muzaffarpur-based lawyer, Sudhir Kumar Ojha, who filed the complaint petition in CJM’s court on Monday, told TOI that he had filed the petition against three cine stars – Katrina Kaif, Vidya Balan and Sonakshi Sinha – accusing them of spreading vulgarity in the society. He said that he filed complaint petition against Katrina for the song ‘Sheela ki Jawani’ picturised on her.

Regarding Vidya Balan and Sonakshi, Ojha said that they had posed for vulgar photographs in a fashion magazine published in January, 2011. He pleaded in the court that such songs and photographs spread vulgarity in the society, which was against country’s culture and tradition.

Ojha said that he further pleaded that it would have an adverse impact on young boys and girls. He said that taking cognizance of the complaint, the sub-judge 1 said the regular CJM would look into the complaint and fixed the next date of hearing on February 4, 2011.

By Jilawatan

Salman Khan, the handsome hunk of bollywood who rocked in films like ‘Wanted’ opposite young cute thing Ayesha Takia, is being wooed by classical Indian beauty Vidya Balan.

Of course, Vidya Balan’s desire is only limited to celluloid and there is nothing personal about it, but even that desire is difficult to fulfill. Sources say that Salman Khan has decided in principle to work only with upcoming young things, who could provide some freshness to the whole project.

The main reason for this is the type of Salman Khan’s movies. In fact, Salman Khan’s movies have generally male oriented themes and seasoned actresses like Vidya Balan will hardly serve any purpose there.

Generally, heroines are used as an arm candy of Salman Khan in the film. It was obvious in Prabhu Deva’s ‘Wanted’, wherein Ayesha Takia had hardly anything to do. Movie was out and out action and had Salman everywhere.

Similarly, his upcoming ‘Ready’ has Asin, who is also relatively fresh face for the industry.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that despite of Vidya Balan showering Salman Khan with lavish praise; it is very hard to get a role opposite Salman Khan.

Even his upcoming ‘Dabangg’ features svelte and suave, young Sonakshi Sinha, and not anyone of Vidya’s contemporaries.

Sources say that Salman Khan’s choice of younger heroines like Ayesha Takia, Asin and Sonakshi Sinha has been dictated by his advancing age and a need to keep balance on the celluloid.

These young actresses are bubbly and fresh and fully complement Salman Khan’s macho image in public.