Entertainment News Desk – Vidya Balan is one of the most brilliant and talented actresses of Indian cinema. Today Vidya is celebrating her 46th birthday. He started his acting career with the popular TV show ‘Hum Paanch’ and during this time he was only 16 years old. Its producer was Ekta Kapoor’s mother Shobha Kapoor. Vidya impressed the audience as well as many big filmmakers from the film industry with her acting in this show. So how did Vidya Balan enter the film world from television serials? Let’s take a look at his career on his birthday.
Vidya Balan’s birth
Vidya Balan was born on 1 January 1979 in a Tamil Brahmin family in Mumbai. However, his family is associated with Kerala. She is the youngest daughter of PR Balan and Saraswati. His elder sister’s name is Priya Balan. Vidya knows both Tamil and Malayalam languages. She is the cousin of popular actress Priya Mani.
debut on tv
Vidya Balan wanted to act from an early age. She was inspired by the films of great actresses like Shabana Azmi, Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit and always wanted to pursue a career in acting. Vidya Balan started her acting career at the age of 16 with the show ‘Hum Paanch’. She played the character of Radhika in the show and the audience liked her a lot. However, she left television and this was because she wanted to work in films.
Vidya got the tag of being unlucky
Vidya Balan was selected for the lead role in the project ‘Chakram’ opposite Malayalam actor Mohanlal while pursuing her master’s degree from Mumbai University. During this period he was signed for more than 12 films. Due to problems in production, ‘Chakram’ was closed after the first schedule and then Vidya Balan was given the tag of ‘unlucky heroine’. And only one of his Malayalam films ‘Kalari Vikraman’ was completed and it flopped after release.
worked in advertisements
After failing to make a career in the South, Vidya decided to work in advertisements. Before getting a big role in cinema, he worked in more than 60 advertisements. During this time, he worked with filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar and from here the path to his Bollywood debut opened. The film ‘Bhool Bhulaiya’ released in 2007 broke all the records of the films of that year at the box office. This film starring Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja and Akshay Kumar proved to be a superhit at the box office.
Vidya Balan got her first break
Vidya Balan debuted in Bengali cinema with ‘Bhalo Theko’ on the recommendation of director Pradeep Sarkar and auditioned for ‘Parineeta’. However, director Vidhu Vinod Chopra initially wanted to cast a big actress for the role of Lalita. Vidya gave several auditions for the film which lasted for six months and later Chopra cast her for the role of Lalita in the film and after that she never looked back.
