Hot Vidya Balan Interview
The girls are talking about you, the women want to be like you, and the men fancy you. Can I call you the 'obsession of the year'? (Laughs out loud) Kya baat hai! That's very flattering. Thank you so much. I don't know how to react to that but it does pay off to be a bad girl sometimes.
And it pays off to be a good mother as well.
Yes, that's true. And they are two completely different individuals, personalities so diverse that you'll be shocked.
Can you recall your flirty days?
Oh yes! I think flirting is a very healthy way to any relationship. I can't recall any one instance of my days when I used to flirt. Probably, there are too many! (Laughs)
You did this sudden disappearing act and then did two films in a year and everyone goes ga-ga about you.
We should talk every day - the way you're asking me questions, it boosts my ego. No, it's not deliberate from my side to be doing fewer films. I choose work and do it if it excites me, which is why people think I do this disappearing act. I get mentally switched off from everything else once I'm doing a film. Maybe I'm just too bad at multi-tasking and that's why I'm inaccessible sometimes.
But I feel you're a director's actor. How do you feel?
You may be right. I think I'm fortunate to work with people who are as passionate about their films as much as I'm passionate about acting. Maybe much more.
If you're talking about Vishal Bhardwaj or Vidhu Vinod Chopra, both eat, drink and breathe cinema. Everything else for them is incidental. That is the beauty of it. And thus a good film is made by them every time they are behind the camera. So, yes, you are a director's actor when you work with them a lot.
So you show the real thing but still make it sound unreal?
Not really. The context is different because it's set in a small town and you feel that you can't identify with what these people are going through, but when it comes to emotions, wherever you are in the world, it'll connect with you. We are no longer in denial.
How do you define your own originality?
I'm not trying to be different. I make use of the best opportunities I get. Some may work and some may not, but I'm extremely passionate about my profession and I truly live in it.
Have you exhausted all your talent in Ishqiya?
No. Not at all. I think there will be new limits every time. I'm enjoying my work so much that I'm giving it more and more and more and, yet, at some level, it's not a strain any more. My understanding of characters is getting easier, I feel, through every film. After all, I'm growing myself and improving myself.
What kind of a man would you prefer?
Someone who is very self-assured.
What if someone made a pass at you?
If someone flirted with me, it would be fine. I mean, I would prefer that men don't make a pass at me. There has to be some talking and knowing each other.
Define 'Ishq'. ----- Ishq is something that makes everything seem worthwhile and thoda kaccha hai jee.
And define 'Ishqiya'. ---- It’s edgy!
Source - http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/ealing-news/ealing-columnists/2010/01/28/bollywood-vidya-balan-is-the-obsession-of-the-year-64767-25714055/