Meet Vidya Balan: The actor with a difference

She proved it doesn’t always take a male superstar to script a box-office success in Bollywood. She turns 44 today.

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00:00When you can be amazing, why be normal?

00:30I was convinced that I was junior Madhuri Dixit, so that's how it all started.

01:30I used to be extremely angry when I'd be told that, you know, but he's given dates,

01:42so you'll have to work your dates around that, never mind if I had three other films going

01:46on at the same time.

01:50He would always get a bigger van, you know, always a better hotel.

01:56People would almost sound like, aapko story sunna hai, and I'd be like, what the hell?

02:03Of course story sunna hai, phir hi toh mein decide karungi ki mujhe film karne hai ki

02:07nahi.

02:26When a film doesn't do well, it bothers you, it breaks your heart, but you move on.

02:50I talk about it, I cry about it, I move on.

03:04I've always associated the saree with beauty.

04:04Filme sirf teen cheezon ke wajah se chalti hai, entertainment, entertainment, entertainment,

04:15aur main entertainment hoon.