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Vidya Balan recounts horrendous experience with a Tamil producer
Updated On: 27 August, 2019 05:15 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Vidya Balan says that she was replaced after being signed for a film
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Vidya Balan at a book launch. Photo: Yogen Shah
Vidya Balan who played the role of a scientist in her latest outing, Mission Mangal, is known to be a trailblazer for women-oriented films. The actress changed the scenario with the film, The Dirty Picture, which followed the life of Silk Smitha. Vidya played the character of Silk and won hearts with her terrific acting chops. Vidya Balan carried films like Parineeta, Paa, Kahaani and many others on her shoulders and succeeded.
On the sidelines of Mission Mangal, she gave a recent interview to Pinkvilla where she recounted horrific experiences of working in the film industry during her initial stages. Vidya Balan spoke about how she was made to feel uncomfortable and was replaced without any intimation. "There were a lot of rejections down South..there were a lot of Malayalam films but I was replaced in each of them...There was a Tamil film I was doing and I was thrown out of the film...I remember my parents had come with me because they were so worried about me...I had really begun to fade so both my parents flew to Chennai with me and we went to the producer's office. The producer showed us the clippings from the film and he said 'just look at her does she look like a heroine. He said 'i was not in favour of taking her at all, it was the director who insisted," recalled Balan.
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