Vidya Balan filmography

Vidya Balan is an Indian actress known for her work in Hindi films. She made her acting debut in 1995 with the sitcom Hum Paanch, following which she made several attempts at a career in Malayalam and Tamil films.[1] However, the first of the films she had signed on for was indefinitely postponed, and she was replaced with other actresses in each subsequent project.[1] Vidya then appeared in music videos for the performers Euphoria, Pankaj Udhas, and Shubha Mudgal,[2][3] all of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar. She made her film debut with a leading role in Goutam Halder's Bengali film Bhalo Theko (2003).[4] In 2005, she played the heroine Lalita in Sarkar's Parineeta, her first Hindi film, which was an adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel of the same name.[5] Vidya won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for the film.[6] Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), a successful comedy sequel, saw her play a radio jockey opposite Sanjay Dutt.[7][8]

In this Indian name, the name Balan is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Vidya.

Vidya Balan at an event for Kahaani in 2012. Her performance in the film earned Vidya her third Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Vidya had five film releases in 2007. She played a variety of roles in them, including a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis in Mani Ratnam's semi-biographical drama Guru,[9] a single mother in the comedy Heyy Babyy,[10] and a dissociative identity disorder patient in the psychological thriller Bhool Bhulaiyaa.[11] Though she was criticised for her styling in Heyy Babyy,[12] the three films were commercially successful.[13] The following year, she played opposite Ajay Devgan in the drama Halla Bol (2008) and Shahid Kapoor in the romantic comedy Kismat Konnection (2008), both of which failed to find a wide audience.[14]

From 2009 to 2012, Vidya starred in five consecutive films that garnered her widespread praise.[15] In the 2009 comedy-drama Paa, Vidya starred as the mother of a child afflicted with progeria.[16] She played a seductress in the black comedy Ishqiya (2010), and portrayed the real-life character of Sabrina Lal in the semi-biographical thriller No One Killed Jessica (2011).[17][18] Also in 2011, she portrayed Silk in the biopic The Dirty Picture, which earned her the National Film Award for Best Actress.[19][20] Vidya next played a vengeful pregnant woman in Kahaani (2012), a thriller directed by Sujoy Ghosh.[21] She was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her roles in Paa, The Dirty Picture, and Kahaani, and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for Ishqiya.[22][23][24] Vidya failed to replicate this success with her next few releases, although her performance in the thriller Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh was acclaimed.[25][26] This changed in 2017 when she played a radio jockey in Tumhari Sulu, for which she won another Best Actress Award at Filmfare.[27][28] Her highest-grossing release came in 2019 with the drama Mission Mangal.[29]

Films

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
2003	Bhalo Theko	Anandi	Goutam Halder	Bengali film	[4] [30]
2005	Parineeta	Lalita	Pradeep Sarkar	Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[6] [31]
2006	Lage Raho Munna Bhai	Jhanvi	Rajkumar Hirani		[32]
2007	Guru	Meenakshi "Meenu" Gupta-Saxena	Mani Ratnam		[33] [34]
2007	Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love	Tehzeeb Hussain	Nikkhil Advani		[35]
2007	Eklavya: The Royal Guard	Rajjo	Vidhu Vinod Chopra		[36]
2007	Heyy Babyy	Isha Sahni	Sajid Khan		[37]
2007	Bhool Bhulaiyaa	Avni Chaturvedi / Manjulika	Priyadarshan	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[6] [38]
2007	Om Shanti Om	Herself	Farah Khan	Cameo appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi"	[39] [40]
2008	Halla Bol	Sneha	Rajkumar Santoshi		[41]
2008	Kismat Konnection	Priya	Aziz Mirza		[42]
2009	Paa	Vidya	R. Balki	Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[22] [43]
2010	Ishqiya	Krishna Verma	Abhishek Chaubey	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[23] [44] [45] [46]
2011	No One Killed Jessica	Sabrina Lal	Raj Kumar Gupta	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[18] [47]
2011	Urumi	Makkom / Bhoomi	Santosh Sivan	Malayalam film; guest appearance	[48]
2011	Thank You	Divya	Anees Bazmee	Special appearance	[49]
2011	Dum Maaro Dum	Mrs. Kamath	Rohan Sippy	Special appearance	[50]
2011	The Dirty Picture	Reshma (Silk)	Milan Luthria	National Film Award for Best Actress Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[19] [23] [51]
2012	Kahaani	Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi	Sujoy Ghosh	Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[24] [52] [53]
2012	Ferrari Ki Sawaari	Unknown	Rajesh Mapuskar	Special appearance in song "Mala Jau De"	[54]
2013	Bombay Talkies	Herself	Various	Cameo appearance in song "Apna Bombay Talkies"	[55]
2013	Ghanchakkar	Neetu Athray	Raj Kumar Gupta		[56] [57]
2013	Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!	Unknown	Milan Luthria	Cameo appearance in song "Tayyab Ali"	[58]
2013	Mahabharat	Draupadi (voice)	Amaan Khan	Animated film	[59]
2014	Shaadi Ke Side Effects	Trisha Mallik	Saket Chaudhary		[60]
2014	Bobby Jasoos	Bilkis "Bobby" Ahmed	Samar Shaikh		[61]
2015	Hamari Adhuri Kahani	Vasudha Prasad	Mohit Suri		[62]
2016	Te3n	Sarita Sarkar	Ribhu Dasgupta	Guest appearance	[63]
2016	Ekk Albela	Geeta Bali	Shekhar Sartandal	Marathi film; special appearance	[64]
2016	Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh	Vidya Sinha / Durga Rani Singh	Sujoy Ghosh	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[65] [66] [67]
2017	Begum Jaan	Begum Jaan	Srijit Mukherji		[68]
2017	Tumhari Sulu	Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey	Suresh Triveni	Filmfare Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress	[28] [69]
2018	Amoli	Narrator (English version)	Jasmine Kaur Roy Avinash Roy	Documentary	[70]
2019	N.T.R: Kathanayakudu	Basavatarakam	Krish	Telugu film	[71]
2019	N.T.R: Mahanayakudu	Basavatarakam	Krish	Telugu film	[72]
2019	Nerkonda Paarvai	Kalyani Bharath	H. Vinoth	Tamil film; guest appearance	[73]
2019	Mission Mangal	Tara Shinde	Jagan Shakti	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[74] [75]
2020	Natkhat	Sonu's mother	Shaan Vyas	Short film; also producer	[76]
2020	Shakuntala Devi	Shakuntala Devi	Anu Menon		[77]
TBA	Sherni	TBA	Amit V. Masurkar	Filming	[78]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Channel	Notes	Ref.
1995	Hum Paanch	Radhika Mathur	Zee TV		[79]
2014	No More Kamzor	Host	Star Plus	TV special	[80]

Music video appearances

Year	Title	Role	Performer(s)	Director(s)	Ref(s)
2002	"Aana Meri Gully"	Bengali bride	Euphoria	Pradeep Sarkar	[81] [82] [83]
2002	"Main Nashe Mein Hoon"	Bengali girl	Pankaj Udhas	Pradeep Sarkar	[81] [84]
2003	"Kisson Ki Chadar"	Unknown	Shubha Mudgal	Pradeep Sarkar	[81] [85]
2011	"Jaani Na"	Bengali wife	Chandrabindoo	Abhijit Chaudhuri	[81]

See also

• List of accolades received by Vidya Balan

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External links

• Vidya Balan on IMDb
• Vidya Balan on Bollywood Hungama