Every time a new script is handed to her, Vidya Balan admits a strong sense of greed grips her mind. It is this greed as an actor that makes her search for characters in which she can live over the next few months.
“My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor,” Vidya says in an exclusive interview.
“I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.”
“I don’t mind travelling that extra bit to enter into the life of the person I play. I transport myself to an extent that I allow my body, my clothes and even my mind to change to become the character,” says Vidya, stressing on why she doesn’t mind being seen with a huge waist when she plays a happy-go- lucky, samosa-munching Punjabi-by-heart woman in Rajkumar Gupta’s forthcoming thriller, Ghanchakkar.
“It gives a different kind of high when as an actor I get to submit myself to the character I play,” she says, underlining the fact that she is introducing the audience to the loud Punjabi housewife Neetu in Ghanchakkar, by appearing in bizarre and jarring T-shirts and slacks teamed with glaring make-up for in-character promotions at various events and television shows. In-character promotion, in fact, is Vidya’s style and she calls it an extension of her work, which includes living an impression of each characters she has played and plans to portray in the future.
In an age when most actresses cannot imagine staying away from the diva image of perfection, Vidya quite enjoys being seen with a fake baby bump while essaying the role of Vidya Bagchi in Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani, donning tacky outfits while playing the southern siren Silk in Milan Luthria’s The Dirty Picture, turning up in a crumpled polyester saree as a rustic temptress in Abhishek Choubey’s Ishqiya or going minus make-up as a bespectacled Sabrina Lal in No One Killed Jessica.
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