Vidya Balan

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Vidya Balan ([ʋɪd̪jaː baːlən] Tamil : வித்யா பாலன், Hindi : विद्या बालन , Vidyā Bālan; born January 1, 1979 in Chembur , Mumbai ) is an Indian Bollywood actress and lives in Mumbai, India . She is known for portraying strong female protagonists, and she also contributes to changes in the concept of the Hindi film heroine.

Life

Vidya Balan was the daughter of PR Balan, the Vice President of ETC Channel, and a Tamil housewife in Palakkad , Kerala , born but grew up in Mumbai , where she the St. Anthony's Girls High School and later the St. Xavier's College of the University of Mumbai . The linguistically gifted student who, among other Tamil , Malayalam , Marathi , English , Hindi , and Bengali dominated, made her university degree in sociology .

Vidya and Siddharth Roy Kapur at their wedding ceremony in December 2012

In December 2012 she married producer Siddharth Roy Kapur , who works for Walt Disney India and produces under the banner.

Career

Balan stood in front of the camera early. In 1995 she starred in the sitcom Hum Paanch at the age of 17 . Vidya Balan was supposed to star in the Malayalam film Chakram , but the film was canceled during production. Your attempts to make films failed for the time being. After that, she turned to television and advertised. Since 1998 she has shot many commercials. Mostly it was directed by Pradeep Sarkar . Vidya also took on supporting roles in music videos.

2003 Balan appeared in the Bengali film Bhalo Theko , and two years later she made her debut in Bollywood with Parineeta alongside Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt . The latter film was very successful and many well-known directors offered her roles in films. Her next Bollywood film Lage Raho Munna Bhai with Sanjay Dutt was also a big hit. In the film adaptation of Silk Smitha's life, The Dirty Picture (2011), Balan was able to prove himself alongside Emraan Hashmi and Naseeruddin Shah and won several awards for her performance. In the docu-drama No One Killed Jessica , Vidya played Sabrina Lall, whose sister Jessica Lall was murdered in 1999 for refusing to sell alcohol after the store closed. With the journalist Meera Gaity, played by Rani Mukerji , she wants to put her sister's murderer in prison, which turns out to be very problematic since he is the son of an influential politician. With the support of Sabrina Lall they were able to realize the project with the director Raj Kumar Gupta under the UTV Spotboy banner .

Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, she played the pregnant Vidya Bagchi in Kahaani (2012), who is looking for her missing husband and puts herself in danger. Her performance has received critical acclaim and multiple awards including the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. A Telugu and Tamil version, Anaamika and Nee Enge En Anbe , hit theaters two years later. In 2013 she was appointed to the competition jury of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival . In 2014 she played the title role in Bobby Jasoos as a detective who dresses up to solve cases. It was not successful and the film failed to convince the critics, as well as in Shaadi Ke Side Effects (2014), in which she plays Trisha, who quarrels with her husband after the birth of her daughter.

In the fourth collaboration with Emraan Hashmi , Balan can be seen in Mahesh Bhatt's romantic drama Hamari Adhuri Kahani , which is based on the love story of Bhatt's parents.

Filmography

Awards

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Balan, Vidya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION indian bollywood actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Chembur , Mumbai