After essaying challenging roles within the Dirty Picture and Kahaani, she's going to now play an effortless housewife in her next
After the resounding back-to-back success of 'The Dirty Picture and 'Kahaani', Vidya Balan has signed her 'No One Killed Jessica' director Rajkumar Gupta’s 'Ghanchakkar'.
Unlike her characters of Sabrina Lal (in No person Killed Jessica), S'ilk (within the Dirty Picture) and Vidya (in Kahaani), Balan plays a housewife in Ghanchakkar.
“So far the jobs that experience defined Vidya’s career have all found her playing women placed in extraordinary circumstances. In Ghanchakkar she plays a standard woman. Nothing dramatic like a murder or a mysterious disappearance happens to her within the script, ” says a source just about the project.
“Both Rajkumar and Vidya feel that playing a normal woman is a unique challenge for Vidya at this stage of her career when she has played various extraordinary characters. However, Gupta is being pressurised to change and amplify Vidya’s part, ” says the source.
“I had decided I NEEDED her for Ghanchakkar even if we were working together on Jessica. It's only now there’s a growing anxiety about Vidya’s positioning within the audiences’ perception, ” says Gupta.
Gupta could be very clear that Ghanchakkar is not only a Balan film. “Emraan Hashmi has just delivered a string of hits. Ghanchakkar isn't Vidya’s film alone. It's Emraan’s film in an equal measure. Vidya is okay with sharing the limelight, ” he says.
The director could be shooting Ghanchakkar with Balan at the streets of Mumbai with hidden cameras, just as he had shot with Rajeev Khandelwal for Aamir.
“This time I’ll be capturing another side to Mumbai, very different from Aamir. The metropolitan spaces occupied by Vidya in Ghanchakkar could be very different from what she occupied of Kolkata in Kahaani and Delhi in No One Killed Jessica, ” he concludes.
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
