Vidya Balan says she was replaced from a ‘dozen’ films after project with Mohanlal got shelved, producer refused to meet her after checking ‘kundli’

The actor continued, “But I have to say that the fire in my belly outshone everything else. So I would go to bed crying almost every night and I would say, ‘Ok, today was the last day I am going to give up.’ But the next morning I would be right back there and it would be square one for me. Then things began to turn. I am someone who prays a lot and I would pray a lot. So that gave me a lot of strength.”

When asked about films being shelved, Vidya Balan said, “Forget the kind of roles that I wanted. After the film with Mohanlal got shelved, there was another Malayalam film which I was doing that got shelved. That’s when people started to brand me unlucky. That was heartbreaking.”

 

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Vidya said that the producers of the films she had signed, started replacing her because of the ‘unlucky’ tag. The actor revealed that she was replaced from almost a dozen films and recalled an incident that stayed with her. 

The actor said that when she was shooting for a Tamil film, the producer of that film refused to meet her. After a few days, she got the news that she was replaced. The producer said, “I got her kundli read. She is unlucky.” When Vidya and her parents met him in Chennai and confronted him, the producer asked them, “Does she even look like a heroine?”

Vidya said that comments about her appearance affected her and she did not look at herself in the  mirror for six months. However, tables turned after she did Lage Raho Munna Bhai. The same producer approached her for a big film.

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