Vidya Balan

Profession: Actress , Guest Appearance, Producer, Supporting Actress

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Vidya Balan Personal Details

Also Know as :- Vidya Balan
Profession:- Actress , Guest Appearance, Producer, Supporting Actress
Gender :- female
Birthdate:- 01 Jan 1979
Birth Place:- Mumbai
Status:- Married
Debut Year:- 1995
Active Years:- Till Today

Vidya Balan Physique Details

Height :- 163
Weight:- 70
Eye Color :- Brown
Hair Color :- Black
Hair Length :- Waist length
Waist :- 30
Shirt Collar Size :- 33

Vidya Balan Family Details

Spouse Details :- Siddharth Roy Kapur

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Vidya Balan Academic Details

Apart from acting Vidya promotes Humanitarian causes and supports the Women Empowerment. Apart from acting, Vidya occupies herself for supporti .. Read More

Vidya Balan Early Life

Vidya Balan was born in Palghat in a State in Kerala in South India. Her Parents P. R Balan was the Vice President of ETC Channel and her mom has been a home maker. She has an elder sister Priya. .. Read More

Vidya Balan Personal Life

After being rejected by the Tamil Film producer, Vidya was dejected, but she didn’t give up and continue to pursue her ambition and dreams to join in the filmworld. With her efforts she got her first break with a Surf .. Read More

Vidya Balan Career

Vidya Balan soon established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Indian Cinema .It all started with Young Vidya aspiring to do a career in films and from a young age she had decided she wanted to be an actress. Her first acting role came across to her in 1995 with Hum Paanch. While she was appearing for her MA Post Graduation, she was simultaneously making several attempts to get into the filmline. She subsequently featured in Ad films and started doing commercials and music albums. In 2003, she made her film debut as the Protagonist in the Bengali Drama Bhalo Theko and in 2005 she did the film Parineeta followed by her role in the highly successful comedy film Lage Raho Munna Bhai in 2006 which was a Box office Super hit film. She received her initial success with romantic films as well as comedy films with light social genre. Like Heyy Babyy in 2007, Kismat Konnection in 2008 which again met negative reviews. The year 2009 marked the beginning of Vidya’s golden period in the film industry and her career graph shot up to fame and success. As she acted in five films in consecutive roles and with the highly critical Acclaimed film Paa in 2009 she rose to fame. She did a grey film with Black Comedy in 2010 with Ishqiya in 2011 and Thriller film with No One Killed Jessica in 2011. The Biopic film on Silk Smita, The Dirty Picture in 2012 and thriller film Kahaani. With these films one after another she established herself as one of the most successful and brilliant actress and she had truly entered the Bollywood as a leading actress of the Hindi Cinema. For her role in The Dirty Picture, she was portraying the role for a biography of Silk Smita .. Since Silk Smita was known to be a heavy smoker, Vidya Balan to fit into the role with ease started smoking one pack of cigarettes per day to be a chain smoker like Silk.She would get unwell as she was not used to smoking but once the film was completed she quit smoking as she started the vice only to get to the perfection of the role that she was to portray. The first thing you notice about Vidya Balan is her infectious smile and her bubbly vivacious attitude on screen or during her interviews has made her a popular star. The actress is compared to the likes of Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan for their popularity. After giving the few super hit films like The Dirty Picture , Kahaani , the films that followed didn’t do too well even though her performance was always considered to be brilliant and much appreciated the films didn’t do too well at the Box office as expected. In 2007, Vidya featured in Mani Ratnam’s semi biographical drama Guru as a woman suffering from multiple scierosis. In this film she has starred with Mithun Chakraborty, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchaan and R Madhavan in the leading role . The film did well at the Box Office. Her next release was ‘ Salaam-e-Ishq, a romantic comedy by Nikhil Advani in which she is paired opposite to John Abraham.The film narrates six individual love stories and Vidya plays the role of a television repoter. Vidya also did a few supporting roles in the film Eklavya : The Royal Guard. The film failed commercially but she met with critical reviews and was selected to be India’s Official Entry to the Oscars for the 80th Academy Awards Vidya's last film of the year 2007 was Priyadarshan's Bhool Bhulaiyaa a remake of the Malayalam film Manichitrathazhu in 1993 starring with Ameesha Patel, Akshay Kumar and Shiney Ahuja. The film was a commercial success with a world wide revenue of over Rs 830 million . the film was appreciated for Vidya’s role and her brilliant performance for which was also nominated for the Second Filmfare nomination in the Best Actress category. Next was the 2008 release Halla bol. Vidya has played a supporting role with Ajay Devgn and Pankaj Kapur. The film was based on the life of the activist Safdar Hashmi who was killed by the political rivals.. The film was a failure . With her role in the film Paa she considers it as major turning point in her career. She is poignant yet restrained and projects an impressive figure of grace and beauty. The role she plays of being an unwed mother struggling to raise a 12 year old son with Progeria syndrome the role of her son played by the living legend Amitabh Bachchan. Her portrayal as the mother in this film won her several awards including the Filmfare Awrad for the Best Actress and the Screen Award for the Best Actress as well.. . Vidya Balan completed 11 years in Bollywood

Vidya Balan Filmography

#	Released Date	Type	Credited As	Movie
1	31 Dec 2025	Film	Actress	Indira The Movie
2	31 Dec 2025	Film	Actress	Chenab Gandhi
3	01 Nov 2024	Film	Actress	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
4	19 Apr 2024	Film	Actress	Do Aur Do Pyaar
5	07 Jul 2023	Film	Actress	Neeyat
6	18 Mar 2022	Film	Actress	Jalsa
7	18 Jun 2021	Film	Actress	Sherni
8	31 Jul 2020	Film	Actress	Shakuntala Devi
9	15 Aug 2019	Film	Actress	Mission Mangal
10	08 Aug 2019	Film	Supporting Actress	Nerkonda Paarvai
11	22 Feb 2019	Film	Actress	NTR Mahanayakudu
12	09 Jan 2019	Film	Actress	NTR Kathanayakudu