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Pink Villa
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Vidya Balan recalls losing out on ‘8-9 films in South' after being considered a jinx in Mohanlal's shelved movie
Vidya Balan was recently seen conversing with Rodrigo Canelas on the Something Bigger Show. In her interaction, the Parineeta actress detailed how she missed out on 8-9 South films after her Malayalam movie with Mohanlal got shelved. Vidya Balan on considered a 'jinx' in Malayalam cinema In her conversation, Vidya Balan recalled her early days in cinema and how she was offered a role opposite Mohanlal. According to her words, 'In my Malayalam movie, I must have shot for 6-7 days. The director and actor Mohanlal were having problems, and due to this, for a lot of days we weren't shooting.' 'I didn't know how it was in a film back then, and thought this is how it all works. Suddenly, they told me the shoot was paused, and I came back to Mumbai. By now, the word spread that there is a South Indian girl who was doing a Malayalam film at a time when most South actresses were Punjabis.' In this period, Vidya Balan reveals that she received various offers from South Indian films, with filmmakers calling her up, narrating the story, and discussing remuneration. Vidya added, 'In this way, I perhaps said yes to 8-9 films in South. I was thinking to myself, I was a star. Later on, I learned that the Mohanlal movie Chakram got shelved. After it was shelved, I lost each of those 8, 9 films I was offered.' Concluding her words, the actress underlined that the filmmakers from South deemed that it was her 'energy' that led to Chakram being shelved, considering her to be a jinx. Mohanlal and Vidya Balan's shelved movie For those unversed, Mohanlal and Vidya Balan were set to collaborate on a movie back in the day titled Chakram. The film was being helmed by veteran director Kamal with Dileep playing a supporting role. However, following the movie being shelved, the late director AK Lohithadas revived the project with a cast change. Instead of Mohanlal, the protagonist's role was played by Prithviraj Sukumaran with Meera Jasmine as the female lead, replacing Vidya.
Indian Express
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Vidya Balan can make a headache disappear by just saying ‘you can leave now'; actor opens up about journey with ‘alchemy' and ‘healing'
Actor Vidya Balan opened up about working with a 'healer' for the past 14 years, and said that they are constantly in touch over the phone, regardless of where she is in the world. She said that her mother introduced her to the healer when she was going through a particularly difficult time in her life. Vidya now swears by it. In a new interview, she spoke about concepts such as 'Saturn's decrease' and 'access consciousness', and claimed that she can make a headache go away by just chanting a simple mantra. Appearing on the Something Bigger Show with Rodrigo Canelas, Vidya was asked about her journey with healing, and she said, 'My healer is a gift to me by my mother. I was going through a tough time about 14 years ago, and my mother introduced me to the healer. Then I just stayed with it, because I enjoyed this process of understanding so much that I just kept at it.' Also read – Vidya Balan says women with 'flourishing careers' still hand over cheques to their husbands: 'Why does money have to be controlled by the man?' She compared healing to 'therapy', and said that she speaks to her healer from wherever she is in the world. 'She's given me various tools over the years. She uses something called Saturn's decrease, which just changes the way you think in the moment. For example, if someone has a headache, you can say, 'You can leave now', and you repeated it a few times, you'd be surprised to find that your headache will get better.' The interviewer asked her what she meant, and Vidya explained, 'So, you have a headache, and you say, 'Headache, you can leave now'. I'm telling you, it changes!' Vidya continued, 'What she does is actually alchemy.' The basic definition of alchemy says that it's a mystical form of 'protoscience' that aims to transform materials into gold, extend human lifespan, and find a universal cure for all diseases. 'She has taken me through EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and access consciousness… All of this happens on the phone. But it's about getting in touch with yourself. It's about not standing in the way of yourself. The only thing standing in our way is ourselves. And I enjoy the process… Healing is a lifelong process, it's like breathing.' Vidya spoke about her beliefs in an interview with Samdish Bhatia last year. 'You can restructure the way you think, and the way you've led your life… the beliefs with which you've led your life, by restructuring the construction of your sentence. Simply put, anxious consciousness helps you access your consciousness, your subconscious, and remove the limitations. It makes sure that you don't stand in your own way,' she said.
