Vidya Balan

Vidya Balan says she does not have the fear of losing the stardom she has gained over the years with her power-packed performances. She admits, though, that it hurts when a film of hers does not do perform well because she is always intensely involved in anything that she does. “When you are going through a low, it is very tough, especially because it is all very public. When your films don’t work, for example. It affects me badly because I am so intensely involved in my films. I give so much of myself to my films,” Vidya said while…

Actress Vidya Balan has opened up on how she coped with lockdown and the pandemic. Vidya, whose latest film “Sherni” released digitally, told IANS that she spent time at home and went back to reading. “I have been home. It has been uneventful, thankfully. I think that has been a good thing. Spending a lot of time watching stuff, reading. I am glad that I am reading again. There was no question of stepping out or meeting anyone, so I got a lot of time to spend with (husband) Siddharth (Roy Kapur) at home and that’s good,” Vidya told IANS.…

The world of OTT is reimagining female protagonists with a different perspective. As the spotlight shifts on woman power in the digital space, characteristics of the heroine that was hitherto untapped have come to the fore. A recent instance is Vidya Balan’s new release “Sherni”, where she is seen playing a forest officer caught in the quagmire of the sexism-laden ‘sarkari’ workplace, even as she fights to protect wildlife. Through the eyes of Vidya Vincent, her on-screen character, the film looks at rapid erosion of forest land, poaching, a threat to wildlife in the name of development, and chauvinistic “babu…