Vidya Balan

Name                     :  Vidya Balam                       

Father’s Name       :   PR Balam                 

Sister Name           :  Priya Balam                                                     

Date of Birth         :  1st January 1978              

Birth place             : Ottapalam, Kerala,India                   

Gender                  :   Female                    
Religion                 : Hindu                      
Status                     :  Unmarried           
Occupation            : Actors                  

Nationality            :  Indian       

Hight                     :  5.4

Hair Color             : Black   

University              : University of Mombi        

Debut  film            :  Bhalo Thako 2003 (Bangla Movie)
                                 Parineeta(Hindi-Movie)


Film Background (Filmography)

Debut Film: Bhaloo Theko(2003), Parineeta- Bollywood (2005)

Famous Movies: Halla Bol (2007), Bhool Bhulaiya (2007), Heyy Baby (2007), Eklavya- the Royal guard (2006),Salaam-e-ishq, Guru (2006), Lage Raho Munnabahai (2006), Parineeta (2005)

Latest Movies: Heyy Baby, Halla Bol, Bhool Bhulaiya

Upcoming Movies: Kismat connection, Mukti

Awards : Filmfare Best Film Debut of the Year (2006) for Parineeta, Fair One Filmfare Face of the Year (2006), ZEE Cine Award for Best Female Debut (2006), IIFA Best Female Best Debut Award (2006) for Parineeta, Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow (2006)

Other Facts: Vidya is very religious and has firm faith on Sai Baba. She is an ardent social-worker with organizations such as Harvards Aids Institue and Hale House.

Vidya Balan is a Tamilian from Kerala. She is from the Iyer community. She comes from a middleclass family from Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Vidya did her schooling from St Antony’s School and later on joined St Xavier’s College from where she graduated in sociology.

When she was doing her MA from Mumbai University, she was offered a role in a Malayalam film titled Chakram with Mohanlal, one of Vidya’s favorite actors. However, the project was shelved mid-way and Vidya had to wait for few more years to make her movie debut.

She made her debut as a model in a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998. She has acted in scores of ad films, most of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

A couple of months later, she featured in three music videos (again directed by Sarkar) for ‘Euphoria’, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas.

Vidya Balan started work as an actress in the Malayalam movie Chakram, paired against Mohanlal, however the film was abandoned mid-way through production. After making her debut in television advertising as a model for a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998, she proceeded to do over 25 TV ads, (mostly directed by Pradeep Sarkar), followed with a variety of acting stints in music videos (Euphoria, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas), Hindi TV soap operas (Hanste Khelte and Hum Paanch) and a Bengali movie, Bhaalo Theko, for which she won the Best Actress Anand Lok Puraskar award in Kolkata. Hanste Khelte and Ektaa Kapoor’s Hum Paanch.

In the meantime, she acted in Bengali movie Bhalo Theko with actor Joy Sengupta. She even won the ‘best actress’ Anand Lok Puraskar in Kolkata for her performance in the movie.

It was in Mumbai, during a pop concert, when filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra approached her to play the female lead in his movie Parineeta, to be directed by Pradeep Sarkar.