Even as the nation’s favourite pass time has now become to pull apart actress Vidya Balan for her dressing sense, the actress says she herself isn’t bothered at all. In fact speaking about the pressures of looking or being a particular size in Bollywood doesn’t affect her at all.
“As far as I am concerned I think I owe a certain amount to the audiences because I am an actor – a known person but that is as far as my role in a film is concerned or as far as my responsibility as an actor comes in. But once the cameras go off then I am not Vidya the actor but Vidya the person. And as far as that is concerned I am very comfortable in my own skin,” she says matter of fact.
The actress will soon be seen in Kismat Konnection after a gap of one and half year. But in that time the actress has constantly faced a barrage of comments regarding her weight and fashion sense.
“The problem with me is that I am too comfortable in my own skin… and none of this affects me. As far as I am concerned I am my director’s actor and the audiences’ who pays for my tickets and that’s that. Just because someone else thinks something… bolne do yaar… it doesn’t matter,” she laughs it off, “I have never believed in the numbers game. For three years I did films back to back and then I took a break. Now I have Kismat Konnection but I have never wanted to be a part of that rat race or project that fake image. I can never be something that I am not.”
But the criticism has been vicious on many occasions. Hasn’t that upset her ever?
“No…I won’t say never. And all my emotions would often reflect on my face when I had just started out. But while filming Munnabhai I learnt something invaluable from Baba (Sanjay Dutt). The man was going through hell at that time but as soon as Raju said action he was the character. He was munnabhai and we never saw his worries or stress on his face. And I have taken that and learnt to disconnect myself from the world. Now I don’t let what I feel come up on my face… I guess you can say I’m now a better actor than I was before!” she signs off.
