After making fans dance to her tunes with The Dirty Picture, Vidya Balan is all set to spread awareness about cleanliness and sanitation as she is appointed the brand ambassador for the Clean India campaign.
Vidya Balan goes incognito in Varanasi
Vidya Balan was on a mission to taste Varanasi's special paan and shop for traditional Banarasi saris and she covered her face with a dupatta and hopped on to a rickshaw to finish her shopping.
Actress Vidya Balan, who has impressed us with her huge collection of designer saris in her films, is finally swapping them for harem salwars, T-shirts and flip flops for her upcoming Punjabi act in Ghanchakkar.
Who better to endorse a soap brand than an actress who knows all about being Dirty?
Vidya Balan is an unconventional actor and has been often criticised for it. But no one can deny that 2011 was her year, with applauses from all corners for her film The Dirty Picture. On our show It's My Life, watch Vidya relive her life.
Vidya gives Ferrari Ki Sawaari a leg up
No fast cars required when Vidya Balan's around to shake things up. Here's her lavani number from Ferrari Ki Sawaari.
Vidya's new photoshoot in Kolkata
National award winning actress Vidya Balan was in Kolkata recently to shoot a new commercial where she campaigns for nutrition with Parineeta director Pradeep Sarkar.
Vidya's big day: A National Award and a 'clean picture'
It was a red letter day for Bollywood star Vidya Balan who collected her first Best Actress National Award for The Dirty Picture in New Delhi. That's not all, she was also appointed brand ambassador for sanitation in India.
Actress Vidya Balan, who was the star at the screening of her debut movie Parineeta at the Vidhu Vinod Chopra Film Festival in Mumbai, spoke about her first film, co-star Saif Ali Khan and her successful Bollywood journey so far.
NDTV Classics: Getting away with rape
Unwed teen mothers, sometimes forced to live near the men who raped them (Aired: Sept 2006)
A rape survivor's brave journey
14 months after being raped in Kolkata, she now counsels others like her. “A two way street,” she calls it
Endgame Afganistan: Talking to the Taliban
“If foreign forces don’t exit, there will be civil war,” says a former Taliban leader
New York's 'candy cab', in the memory of a lost son
Mansoor Khalid's son died at just 18 months
Cannes 2013: Ooh la la, here's Ash
Three fantastic outfits later, she’s put Sonam and Vidya firmly in the shade
Felt special to be on stage with Big B: Vidya
And she’s honoured to be on the same jury as Spielberg, Ang Lee
Sonam, Vidya get a thumbs up from Ritu Beri
Designer hails the actresses’ sari and lehenga choices on the French Riviera
Not competing with mom Sharmila: Soha
She’s not interested in starring in a remake of one of her mother’s films
Like wine, my friendship with Ranbir gets better with age: Deepika
Ranbir admits others find it weird he’s so comfortable with her
Won't do Munnabhai film without Sanjay Dutt: Arshad Warsi
Circuit remains loyal
Cannes fashion police
Mughal-E-Azam Vidya vs elegant Sonam vs only-slightly-less- racy Mallika
Sonam blooms at Cannes on day 2
Dramatic Dolce & Gabbana outshines Vidya's Sabyasachi and nose ring
Vidya blows a French kiss in Sabysachi at Cannes
Wore her desi heart on her sleeve with a bindi and pallu over her head
On set, average age is 25 and I am 71: Big B
Tells NDTV at Cannes he often thinks "what the heck am I doing here" on shoots
Big B says namaste at Cannes
Opened festival in "the music of the Hindi language"
Sonam stuns Cannes with old-world glamour
Gets sari + jacket right, unlike Aishwarya
