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Vidya BalanVidya Balan waives her acting fee for Bengali film
21st Dec 2007  19.30 IST
By ApunKaChoice  


She may be in the top league in Bollywood, but Vidya Balan insists she hasn’t lost touch with her roots.

Balan, though not a Bengali, feels a special affinity to the language. Her first Hindi movie, Parineeta , was directed by Pradeep Sarkar (a Bengali) and her recently released Bhool Bhulaiyaa had Vidya playing a Bengali character.




And recently when Bengali director Gautam Haldar, whom Vidya has known for a long time, approached her to play a leading role in his next film, ‘Mukti’, Vidya immediately said yes despite the fact that the movie did not have budget big enough to pay Vidya her usual acting fee.

The reason, Vidya says, is that she has a high regard for director Gautam Haldar, who, she reveals, helped her discover the actress within.

Vidya still remembers how Gautam had put his trust in her and cast her in his movie ‘Bhalo Theko’ when no one knew her as an actress. It was the film for which Vidya won an award for her performance. In a way it marked the beginning of Vidya’s acting career.

And today when Gautam has approached her for his next film, Vidya has decided to waive her usual fee and will work for a much lesser amount.

If only more actresses were like her.



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