Vidya Balan on Being replaced in films, called ugly & fat; Secret behind Weight Loss | Fans Festival

Vidya Balan is truly one of the finest actors we have in the industry today and now with Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, she returns to the celebrated franchise as the iconic Manjulika. At Galatta India’s Fans Festival powered by Limelight Diamonds and PVR, host Nayandeep Rakshit, an ardent admirer of Balan himself shares some interesting anecdotes about Vidya, the human. Over the next two hours, the audience is in for a treat as the Actress maneuvers through different struggles and milestones in her life and career. She gets emotional about the low days of not having work, being signed on for Mohanlal’s Chakram only to be removed from the film a few days later. “They started calling me a jinx,” she says, adding that there was a “Tamil filmmaker who got her kundali checked and called her abshagun.” She reminisces days when a producer mistreated her and shamed her for her looks, putting her on a self doubt mode. “I didn’t look at myself in the mirror for 6 months; I felt ugly,” she tells Nayandeep almost tearing up. But she also looks back at her achievements. From Vidhu Vinod Chopra wanting a bigger star in her place for Parineeta to creating her own mark in cinema and being compared to the Khans, receiving box office as well as critical acclaim and awards, Vidya Balan created a legacy that’s almost unbeatable. But she constantly faced body shaming from people around her including the media. For the first time ever, Vidya Balan reveals that she was diagnosed with allergy towards certain food items like Palak and Dudhi - which she was completely unaware of, and caused inflammation in her body. “I did this thing called Elimination of Inflammation and I lost weight since early 2024,” Balan reveals as she looks exactly the way she did 17 years ago in Bhool Bhulaiyaa. Watch her candid and unfiltered chat right here.
Location: PVR Lido, Mumbai

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Promo- 0:00
Introduction- 3:21
Vidya on being grounded- 6:51
Vidya Balan on media- 8:56
My father felt sad I didn't get nominations for Bhool Bhulaiyaa- 12:54
Vidya as child- 15:21
Vidya on Madhuri Dixit- 16:22
Vidya on her elder sister- 17:39
Vidya's FIRST theater- 18:54
"Shot for 9 mins but the show didn't get telecast"- Vidya- 20:26
Vidya on Hum Paanch- 20:52
Vidya on her college days- 22:10
Vidya was replaced in movies when her movie with Mohanlal was got shelved- 22:32
Vidya on dealing with rejections- 23:27
Did people call Vidya jinxed?- 24:49
A Tamil filmmaker checked my kundali and replaced me- Vidya Balan- 25:47
Vidya Balan was called ugly- 26:54
Vidya on Pradeep Sarkar and her FIRST music album- 27:52
Vidya's strong message for the trollers- 30:51
Vidya on strength- 34:34
Vidya on Parineeta- 35:48
Vidya on dealing with rejections- 39:16
Vidya on being compared to Khans- 41:32
Vidya on Dirty Picture- 44:08
Vidya on getting National Award- 45:48
Is Dirty Picture 2 happening?- 47:10
Vidya SLAMS reporter for body shaming her- 47:31
Vidya on her weight loss- 49:33
Gift for Vidya- 59:33


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