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{mosimage}I just saw "Parineeta" and more than the movie I was impressed by the girl who carried the movie on her shoulders with style and grace - Vidya Balan. I am happy that this Tamil Brahmin girl from Ottappalam, Palakkad has got a big break atlast. Very few of you know that she was a jinx at south. Her first movie as Vidya Iyer, was in Malayalam with my favourite director Kamal's "Chakram" along with Mohanlal and Dileep. But midway through Kamal and Mohanlal had a fall out with the script and the project was shelved. Then Linguswamy spotted her and launched "Run" along with Madhavan. But destiny had other plans, she was dropped and Meera Jasmine was brought in.

Struggle

Vidya's woes continued... She was again signed opposite to Srikanth in "Manasellam", but thrown out that she couldn't emote and Trisha was brought in as if she is a big "actress". If that is the actual reason, Vidya should be having a last laugh that somene who was thrown that she couldn't "emote" is now in the wishlist of who-is-who in Bollywood. Many years back there was a brahmin girl who was thrown after the first schedule of the movie "Vennira aadai.." who went on to become the dream girl of the nation - Hema Malini.

Surprisingly Vidya and Meera have something in common. When Lohitadas relaunched the shelved "Chakram" with a new starcast, Meera did the role originally done by Vidya.

{mosimage}Vidya tried her luck with modelling in Mumbai . She appeared in many commercials and same Pradeep Sarkar launched "Parineeta" with her. Vidya has been basking the success since then. She had found ardent fans with Bacchans. Amitabh gushes that despite seeing this girl in countless commercials, she found her blossoming fresh with Parineeta. Preity Zinta singles out Vidya as a refreshing change from the assembly line of Hindi heroines churned out these days. Vishal Bharadwaj was considering her seriously opposite to Aamir Khan in "Mr. Mehta & Mrs. Singh" before settling for Kareena Kapoor.