MUMBAI: Vidya Balan leads the show, along with Shefali Shah, in the upcoming, Jalsa, a thriller drama that releases on Amazon Prime Video on March 18. In a conversation with us, she shares her views on women in cinema, in the OTT space, in society, and how the concept of stardom is changing.
This is not the first time Vidya Balan is working in a thriller drama. Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Kahaani’ has grabbed the eyeballs with its suspense storyline and of course Vidya Balan who left no stones unturned to turn the movie into a super thriller with a female lead.
Talking about Kahaani, yes, there have been other thrillers, but I think even today Kahaani is a benchmark.
“I was a bit taken aback when you said 10 years of Kahaani. I didn’t realise that, wow! It just seems like yesterday. And with Kahaani, you had a thriller with a woman at the centre of the story, and not just that, a pregnant woman. People just didn’t know what to expect from it. For Sujoy Ghosh (director), it was a challenge to put the film together. A lot has changed since… now there is a wide range of women’s stories being told. It is so exciting, though I have to say that I hope that the tag of the ‘woman-centric film’ is done away with at some stage.”
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Vidya Balan is currently prepping up with her most awaited film ‘Jalsa’, a thriller drama co-starring Shefali Shah.
“In Jalsa, you have two women leading the story, but it’s a kind of story that could happen to anyone. It is about one incident that just changes your life. Maya (my character) is a journalist. She is self-righteous, and here she is thrown into a sudden situation,” she asserted.
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