Bowled Over By Vidya Balan

The cover story of Vidya Balan in the Screen issue dated April 17 was engrossing showing many facets of Vidya Balan. It's been four years since Vidya Balan made her splendid debut in Pradeep Sarkar's Parineeta. Hers was a face that could launch million fantasies and she has a rare ability to use her eyes for expressing intense emotions.

Vidya Balan as Lolita in Parineeta she overshadowed all her co-stars and won numerous awards. Post Parineeta the actress has been giving brilliant performances in films like Bhool Bhulayaa, Heyy Baby, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Kismat Konnection etc.

The industry already predicted that Vidya Balan had all the trappings and potential to become the next Madhuri Dixit of Hindi cinema. Vidya Balan always admired her role model Madhuri and was fascinated by her histronics. Last year Vidya Balan had two releases, Hallo Bol was a flop but Kismat Konnection was a moderate success. She has been giving constant and intense performances in most of her films. Its high time she chose her films carefully.

Vidya's next set of films include Ishqkiya, Paa, Chenab Gandhi etc. If one of these films click in a big way that will surely catapult her into the big league of actresses.