Vidya Balan moving closer to marriage?

The last we heard, actor Vidya Balan and UTV head honcho Siddharth Roy Kapur had secretly tied the know. Balan laid rest to those rumours by laughing them off in an interview recently. The two have been denying being in a relationship even, forget getting married. Now, the Dirty Picture actor and Kapur have recently bought a flat in Mumbai's Bandra area, 'near Rizvi College', reports Delhi Times.



A source has confirmed to the tabloid supplement that the two will now move forward in their relationship when they furnish the house together and move in. "The two will tie the knot in 2012," source added.



Where's the truth in these rumours, Vidya?

First Teaser: As sultry as it gets - Vidya in 'The Dirty Picture'

Vidya Balan has never exposed as much - but in the first look of "The Dirty Picture", inspired by late southern sex icon Silk Smitha's life, she has painted a perfect picture in an itsy-bitsy red blouse matched with luscious red lipstick.



The actress stands undaunted even as three men - Naseeruddin Shah, Tusshar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi - get too close for comfort in the poster, which was released on social networking sites Friday.



"The poster and the logo of the film has a very 1980s feel to it because the movie is set in that period.



We will be launching the first trailer of 'The Dirty Picture' in Mumbai August 30," Girish Johar, head of acquisition and distribution, Balaji Motion Pictures, told over the phone from Mumbai.



The film is set to release Dec 2, the birth anniversary of Silk Smitha, who became a symbol of sensuality after featuring in bold and semi-nude roles. Later, financial crises and personal problems took a toll on her life.



It is this moving story that has been captured in this latest offering by Ekta Kapoor.



In tune with the period that the movie is set in, the Balaji unit has chosen to launch the first trailer at Galaxy, a single screen theatre in Mumbai.



"It is because the movie has the 1980s charm of Indian cinema, we chose not to go to any five star hotel or a multiplex to launch the first teaser. The theatre will be set up in a way that reminds people of good old times," said Johar.

Vidya Balan married?

Vidya Balan was married off to beau Siddharth Roy Kapoor for a day, thanks to gossipmongers on social networking sites

Vidya Balan fans got a huge jolt on Tuesday, all thanks to social networking sites. The actress was conveniently married off to UTV Motion Pictures CEO Siddharth Roy Kapoor.

A strong buzz went around within the web world about how the South Indian beauty had already tied the knot with Kapoor a week ago.

Not just that, gossipmongers even speculated that the couple was scheduled to leave for their honeymoon as soon as Vidya completed her shoot for The Dirty Picture in Hyderabad.

However, we have good news. The actress is very much a bachelorette and has no plans of getting hitched anytime soon. When contacted, all she said was: "It is so untrue."

Interestingly, all this happened on a day that was very special for both.

It was Kapoor's birthday on August 2 and though that was good news enough, their fans who spread the news were clearly too excited.

All we can confirm is that the two took a trip out of the country as Siddharth does on every birthday, and spent the day together.

Rumours about Vidya and Kapoor dating each other have been doing the rounds since No One Killed Jessica.

Speculations only increased when the two were spotted holidaying in Goa and then in Khandala.

Apparently, Vidya has also been accompanying Kapoor on a few family functions, pretty much putting an official stamp on them as a couple.

First Look: Vidya Balan as Silk Smita in Milan Luthria's Dirty Picture

The first look of the film shows Vidya dressed in a red blouse and a colourful wrap-around, posing coquettishly as she nibbles her thumbnail. In case you are wondering why Vidya would take on a role that’s so unlike her real personality, Vidya says that’s where the whole challenge lies. Vidya says she is inspired from the Hollywood actress Bette Davis who played an interesting variety of roles in her acting career.

Talking about looking curvy in Dirty Picture, Vidya says she has always loved her curves. Vidya hasn’t watched many movies of Silk Smitha, but she has seen her in Sadma and a few raunchy songs as well. As for now, enjoy Vidya as a siren in Dirty Picture.

Vidya Balan draws inspiration from Shahid Kapoor

The latest buzz in tinsel town is that Bollywood actoress Vidya Balan will be opting for butt-pads for her role of Silk Smitha in her upcoming film Dirty Picture.Initially Vidya was told to put on weight and then shed the extra kilos for her role but she later stepped back stating this was not possible.

Buzz is in the air that Vidya will have to put some bulk on the hips as well. Taking inspiration from his friend Shahid Kapoor, Vidya Balan is planning to take cosmetic help to give herself the well rounded look. Ekta Kapoor has the given this task of Vidya to look voluptuous to make up person Vikram dada and AD Shahana. Vidya can also take few tips from Shahid.

Vidya Balan goes nuts

We hear Vidya Balan is quite freaked out these days. Firstly, if coming to terms with playing a character like Silk Smitha was already a task, add to this her growing weight which has only made matters worse.

According to reliable sources, 'Vidya is behaving extremely self conscious these days. This has to do with her newly gained weight that was mandatory for her character in DIRTY PICTURE. Now, after having gained oodles of it, the actress is just freaking the way she looks these days. On top of that, the fact that her wardrobe consists of some skimpy outfits, has only added to her woes.

In DIRTY PICTURE, Vidya will don the role of a sexy siren for the first time. This will be a fry cry from her earlier acts so far. We also hear that her love making act with Naseeruddin Shah has just got canned.

Vidya Balan in 'Thank You' and 'Dum Maro Dum'?

It seems that Vidya Balan the latest flavour of the season as the ‘Ishqiya’ star is flooded with film offers. Buzz has it that we might just get see the talented actress in ‘Thank You’ and ‘Dum Maro Dum’.

Apparently, the actress has tried hard to keep her roles in the two multi-starrer flicks under wraps. ‘Thank You’ directed by Anees Bazmi has Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Irrfan Khan, Suniel Shetty and Sonam Kapoor. While Rohan Sippy’s ‘Dum Maro Dum’ has Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu and Rana Daggubati playing the central roles.

It is believed that Vidya plays Akshay Kumar’s better half in Bazmi’s flick, while Abhishek Bachchan plays her husband in Sippy’s film. Well, what are you up to Vidya? Are you trying to steal the show silently?

Shahrukh, Hugh Jackman & Vidya dance on stage

Call me Jack bhai,” expressed Hugh Jackman at the FICCI Frames motion picture assembly in Mumbai on Friday evening. Given the solace that the X-Men star oozed, Jackman obviously felt at home.

In Mumbai as the star visitor at the FICCI meeting, Jackman was a part of the valedictory session with Shah Rukh Khan as Karan Johar took part in host. As the house went up in adulation upon his entry with wife Deborra Lee-Furness, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan presented him. Ladies in particular were viewed stretching out their necks for a great take a gander at the performing artist who looked spruce in a grey suit and short trimmed hair.

Thanking the performer, who slipped out of the room soon following, he stated, “When I was told that I’ll be presented by the most exceptionally grand character in the planet, I thought they implied my wife.” After appropriating the response he anticipated, Jackman joined, “I state this in light of the fact that I’m a savvy man, and likewise on account of my wife's situated in the front line.”

As Johar, Khan and Jackman sat down for a chat, the Australian actor who is also an ardent cricket fan, started his note referring to the quarter final game on Thursday that Australia lost to India. “At the gym this morning, I was given a strip with a thought for the day. It said, ‘A man’s worst failures are followed by big successes’. After the game we lost yesterday, I knew that today’s going to be a great day. And now that we have cricket out of the way, let’s get chatting.”

Vidya upset to saw her in bikini

Once again a controversial photograph disturb Vidya balan, as you know that morphed pictures of Sonakshi Sinha in a bikini for a magazine cover had floated online. But, Sonakshi was quick to point out and clarified immediately on her social networking page that those were not her pictures, and that she was shocked at the stories around the fake photo shoot.

The same case with Vidya bala, She shocked to See that a morphed picture of hers in a black bikini for a magazine cover had been posted online and was doing the rounds. The photo has been morphed on the cover of a famous men's magazine for the 'Annual 2011' edition.

But Vidya said that all photos are fake and cleared that I haven’t done a shoot in bikini. She was shocked when saw the photo and decide to take proper legal action against the people who are responsible for this.

Vidya Balan in her new flick Kahani

Everyone knows that Vidya Balan plays the protaganist in Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani, a pregnant woman who comes down to India in search of her missing husband. But not many know that she is the only actor from Bollywood to be cast in the film. All the other characters are played by television and stage artistes from Kolkata, barring one from New Delhi. “The film is based in Kolkata and I could not think of anyone from Mumbai who could fit into the characters that I had conceived. I only chose one actor from Delhi as he plays a character who hails from the capital,” explains Ghosh.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that the director wrote the film with Vidya in mind. “The emotions that her character goes through could only be portrayed by an actor like Vidya. She researches her part so well that I hardly have to explain any scene to her,” says the director. Kahaani releases on June 17.

Vidya's avoiding media?

Actress Vidya Balan is on a new agenda these days. She is busy planning strategies to avoid interaction with the media. According to sources from the industry, Vidya is trying hard to minimize her interaction with media ever since her Goa pictures with UTV's Siddharth Roy Kapur have made their way to newspapers.

We also hear that in all the recent events that the actress has attended, she hasn't spent much time giving bytes to avoid being asked the inevitable question that would follow. While it's speculated that the actress doesn't want to commit and confirm anything about her relationship status, sources in the industry also feel that Siddharth, who is in the middle of divorce proceedings with first wife, has asked Vidya to keep mum.

A source revealed, "Siddharth has asked Vidya to not talk to the media as confirmation about their relationship and marriage plans may affect the divorce proceedings. Vidya is just obliging by going low on her media communication."

Another source reveals that nowadays when she is contacted by journalists, the Ishqiya seductress cuts a sorry figure saying that she is keeping unwell and won't be able to talk or comment. Well, all we can do is just wait for Vidya to come out in the open and declare her love.

Vidya Balan in Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani: Role of a pregnant woman

Vidya Balan is playing a six-month pregnant woman in Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani. To get into the skin of the character, she has called for a No Smoking ban on the set.

While the smokers on the set might resent her call for the ban, the director is maha pleased with her dedication. Sujoy says, "She's really into the character. So much so that after a while she started freaking us out.

She started behaving like an expectant mother and wouldn't let anyone smoke in front of her.. and we were like.. huh? Pregnant!? Who? So I think for Balan once she is mentally there, physical bits are baaye haath ka khel."

The director might want to lookout for more clues of obsessing with the character. It might get really scary if she started eating for two, or started feeling morning sickness.

Vidya Balan is the most sizzling vegan celeb!

Vidya Balan is the hottest vegetarian celeb! These days Parineeta girl Vidya Balan is up the popularity list. After receiving rave reviews for her outstanding role in “No One Killed Jessica”, she has recently been voted as the hottest vegan by PETA. A food fetish, and a pure vegetarian she has topped the list with Shashi Tharoor, former union minister of state for External Affairs.

She has been placed by PETA above other celebrities on the list such as Amitabh Bachchan, R. Madhavan, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta, besides international hotties such as Bryan Adams and Natalie Portman. Vidya is all set to rock this year with all the love and support that she is being showered with.

Vidya & Anushka kissing to Shahrukh at Choice Entertainer Awards

We've always known Shah Rukh Khan is a lucky man, but we never realized how lucky the superstar really is until now! King Khan had the time of his life when Vidya Balan and Anushka Sharma decided he deserved a BIG smooch for winning the Hindustan Times Reader's Choice Entertainer of the Year Award! He may have screwed up his face and put up some token resistance, but he soon gave in! And with two such beautiful ladies on either side, who wouldn't we ask.

Vidya Balan: Crusader for equity to sexy siren

While Vidya Balan did go the de-glam way for her previous movie Ishqiya, it’s probably unfair to compare her looks in the former film and No One Killed Jessica. But one thing is for sure, Vidya manages to carry off a range of looks and emotions with the ease of a pro.

In No One Killed Jessica, inspired from the Jessica Lall murder case, Vidya’s role is based on Jessica’s sister, Sabrina Lall, who fought for her sister’s case. "There’s a real, vulnerable, raw quality to Sabrina," says Vidya, "She likes to get lost in the crowd. She’s very young when this incident happens in her life and it shows." Vidya adds that she took special care to look the character by wearing loose, ill-fitting shirts and even adding a slight hunch to depict the body-conscious young Sabrina.

Surprisingly, Vidya met the real Sabrina only after the filming of the movie. So why did it take her so long to meet Sabrina? Vidya winces, "I thought it would be really insensitive to just ask Sabrina what it felt or what she went through. Sabrina did meet (director) Raj Kumar and discussed a few things with him. Later, Raj Kumar and I sat down and created the character of Jessica. So any resemblance between reel and real life Sabrina is just coincidence."

About her earliest memories of the Jessica Lall case, Vidya recollects, "I was in college when I heard about the case. There were signature campaigns to show our support and even I signed up for them. When the verdict did come out finally (a few years ago), it wasn’t relief that I felt, but I was just happy that justice had been served. It was the way the case brought all of us – the media and the public – together that gave me hope."

You won’t be seeing Vidya in her coy avatar too soon. Next on her radar is Dirty Picture (working title), a film inspired by the life of south India’s sexy siren, Silk Smitha. Vidya Balan’s character is inspired by the late sex bomb who committed suicide. And she has also done a special dance number for Urumi, a Malayalam film directed by Santosh Sivan, and co-starring Genelia D’Souza.

"I was actually surprised when Sivan came to me with this song. I had just recovered from a shoulder injury and was getting back to exercising. That’s when he told me that he didn’t want me to lose weight! He said that they don’t like skinny girls in Malayalam films. And to top it, I was dancing in front of Prabhu Devaa. I was so conscious that I asked him to close his eyes because I didn’t want him to see me dance! "Silk Smitha or Sabrina Lal, Vidya sure is giving us a hell lot to look forward to!

Vidya Balan parades her Baby Bump in newfangled picture kahaani

Vidya Balan will be soon seen with a baby bump in a forthcoming film, ‘Kahaani’. The film directed by Sujoy Ghosh has Vidya Balan playing the role of a pregnant woman. The most interesting part is that Vidya will be seen with the bump not just in a scene or two but throughout the film. The film is about a journey of a lady who is six months pregnant and who reaches Kolkata searching for her husband. Known to be a perfectionist, Vidya is known to live the character she plays on screen. So sporting a baby bump and being comfortable with the look is all a part of the professional regime that the actress follows. She has earlier played mother to a baby in Sajid Khan’s ‘Heyy Baby’.

Director Sujoy Ghosh, is full of praises for the gifted actress for carrying off the role so effortlessly. He said that he had written the script with Vidya in mind and none other than Vidya could have portrayed the character so well. “It's the story of a woman who's six months pregnant and her journey. I had written the script keeping Vidya in mind. I wouldn't have made the film without her. For me she's a perfectionist who has beautifully brought the character alive,” said the director.

Vidya Balan has another interesting film coming up, ‘No one Killed Jessica’, based on the real life killing of Jessica Lal, where she plays a lawyer and co-stars with Rani Mukerji. The beautiful actress made her debut in Bollywood with the film ‘Parineeta’ by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. She shot into limelight with her maiden performance and made everyone take note of her. There has been no looking back ever since.

Vidya Balan: I reveled in trying an agamic individual

Now that her forthcoming film No One Killed Jessica is due to release, Vidya Balan is all set to sit back and await the audience’s reaction to her deglam role. Having played characters with depth (Ishqiya and Paa), this role gives Vidya a chance to display her histrionics without any fancy costumes or looks.

The actress says, “I really enjoyed playing an asexual person. I have worn the most uninteresting clothes and my make-up was done in minimum time. I normally take more time to dress up in my personal life than the time I took to get ready to play this character. It was a joy ride as my hairdresser would just tie my hair in a ponytail, the make-up guy would do the base… and I would be ready. In a way, the look helped me because as soon as I put on those over sized, shapeless clothes, I felt that it was not me; it took me into Sabrina, who was a very regular girl confronted with a life-altering moment.”

Vidya is now looking forward to The Dirty Picture. but admits, “I don’t know how I will prepare myself but I know (director) Milan Luthria knows how to present me in that role.

Vidya Balan celebrate her 35th brithday

The very name of Vidya Balan brings to us the image of a sweet and homely girl, whom everybody wants to take home before their mothers! Vidya is someone for whom every color in the world holds lots of significance. Her career will surely be ever-green with many sensational films under her belt. Let's face it...looking at her glowing and growing career, there are many heroines out there, who go green with envy!

Well, the good news is that it's her birthday today and everyone in the world wants to be a part of this auspicious day! Be it her 'simply sensational' debut in Parineeta or her role of a distressed sister in the forthcoming mega flick No One Killed Jessica Vidya has been there, done that! What more can one ask for than to kick start the New Year with the Goddess of beauty herself!

Fight to be more Bengali, Vidya Balan versus Rani Mukherjee

Imagine Vidya Balan staying up till 3 in the night and singing “Aar koto raat eka thakbo… Chokh mele dekhbo naa tomake…”That’s from Rani’s Believe It Or Not collection about her No One Killed Jessica co-star.

One is a Bengali by chance. The other a Bengali by choice. Between them on Monday evening, Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan were more like two Bengalis coming home to Calcutta than two big Bollywood stars coming to the city to promote their film.

The last time Rani and Vidya were seen together in Calcutta was in August, in the front row of designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s debut show in the city at Taj Bengal. On Monday, the venue was the same and both were again wearing Sabyasachi but this time the spotlight was firmly on the two women.

They had flown in from Mumbai earlier in the morning. And the moment they set foot in Calcutta, Vidya had squealed out loud at the airport. A concerned Rani turned around and asked her what had happened. “I am in my city!” Vidya replied. “Pagol meye!” Rani concluded.

A few hours later Rani was in the mood to make most of that mad streak. “I am telling you Vidya was a Bengali in her last birth... she loves to speak Bengali, she loves to eat Bengali food and she loves Bengali men,” Rani announced even as a stunned Vidya didn’t know how to react.

And then came the killer line. “Vidya would love to get married to a Bengali man who has a long surname ending with ‘jee’, like Chatterjee or Mukherjee,” Rani quipped, before adding: “She would love to be a Mrs Mukherjee.”

The impromptu Bengali jamming between the two Bolly beauties didn’t end there. Recovering from this sudden onslaught, Vidya started singing the Autograph chartbuster — “Aamake aamar moto thakte dao... aami nijeke nijer moto guchhiye niyechhi...”

Rani was not done. “See, her Bengali pronunciation sounds like a Bengali.” Vidya was ready with the repartee this time — “Karon aami mon theke Bangali!”

If Vidya’s Bengali was sounding just right — after spending two months in the city shooting for Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani — Rani’s Bengali was sounding very Lokhandwala. “Don’t make me speak more Bengali... I am getting exposed,” the Miss Mukerji herself pleaded.

Raj Kumar Gupta, director of No One Killed Jessica, confirmed that even on the sets of the film, which is inspired by the Jessica Lal murder case, it was one big, mad Bengali party. With Sabyasachi designing for both the actresses in the film, “everyone was jabbering in Bengali all the time”.

What’s more, they even shot a few crucial scenes of the film here in Calcutta — Maidan to New Market, Ballygunge to Dum Dum. “Sabrina Lal’s (Jessica’s sister, played by Vidya) journey brings her to Calcutta and it was important that we actually came to Calcutta to shoot that portion,” Raj Kumar revealed.

Cut to Monday morning, and it was Rani who was taking a trip down Calcutta memory lane. The actress had gone straight from the airport to Elgin Road for a bhanr of tea.

“It’s a place where my maa and mashi used to take me from the very beginning for bhanrer cha,” Rani told Metro. “I really enjoy it. There are so many things I would love to do here in Calcutta but I always come with so much work in hand that it never happens.”

But what binds Vidya to Calcutta? “Rani is always curious about my Bengali connection... ‘what is this connection I want to understand’, she asks me,” Vidya said. “Wish I could understand it myself....”

So has she become more Bangali than Rani? “That I don’t know, that I don’t know,” Vidya laughed out loud with a twinkle in her eye. “But all I can say is that Tomate aamate dekha hoyechhilo, jaani naa kobe kothay... That’s what I feel about Calcutta.”

Vidya Balan to mark Ekta Kapoor's ‘Ragini MMS’

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan is all set to play lead in Ekta Kapoor’s upcoming venture ‘Ragini MMS’, which is based on the infamous MMS scandal in a prestigious Delhi based school, Zee News reported. According to a report on spicezee[dot]com, apparently, Kangna Ranaut had been approached by Ekta Kapoor to play the lead role. “When the former showed uneasiness on hearing the explicit content of the film, Kangna Ranaut chickened out at the last minute. However, Ekta Kapoor was quick to find Kangna’s replacement in Vidya Balan,” the website reported.

The report further revealed that while talking to a daily, a source confirmed the news and said, “Kangna walked out of the film, perhaps because she had developed cold feet about the movie. This is a bold movie and it needs an actress who can do justice to a strong portrayal. Vidya can deliver such intense roles with confidence. She is anyway doing ‘Dirty Picture’, based on the life of Silk Smitha, with Ekta, and her company felt that she`s appropriate for the role.

So, they`ve approached her.” When contacted, the CEO of Balaji Motion Pictures, said, “I don`t want to say anything at this stage. But the film is definitely on.” After playing the power-packed role of Sabrina Lal, sister of Jessica in ‘No One Killed Jessica’ and sex-siren Silk Smitha in ‘Dirty Picture’, it seems Vidya is keen on a serious image makeover and has become a hot favourite of Bollywood filmmakers, the website reported.