Actress Vidya Balan has talked about the beginning days of her career when she wondered if she should reconsider her choices. In a recent interaction, Vidya also said that among the 7 movies that she was part of, the two movies that ‘worked the least, were the ones with male heroes‘.
In a recent interaction with India Today, Vidya said, “Initially, I was made to feel like I was making unconventional choices. In every promotional interview, I get asked, ‘Oh, you’re doing another unconventional film?’ Now, I think there are too many unconventional roles that it’s become conventional. But I think, at some stage, I wondered if I needed to reconsider. I had a spate of successes followed by a spate of films that didn’t do well. While I don’t really pay attention to what people have to say, but I was wondering if I needed to reconsider my decisions.”
The actress also said, “I wondered if I had to look at a different kind of film. Maybe I wasn’t seeing success because I wasn’t doing the ‘so-called’ conventional films. But amongst all the films that I did, and the ones that didn’t work, the ones that weren’t female-centric films performed the worst. I had a spate of seven duds. It breaks my heart to call them flops, but I had seven films that didn’t work. So, amongst those, the two films that worked the least were the ones with male heroes. So, I told myself there’s no, there’s no math to this. It’s about a good film. In my head, I made that note, decided that I should just be authentic and continue to make these choices.”
Vidya was previously seen with Shefali Shah in the movie Jalsa, which was backed by T-Series and Abundantia Entertainment. Helmed by Suresh Triveni, the movie debuted on Prime Video. She will soon be seen in Neeyat and an untitled film helmed by Shirsha Guha Thakurta.