At the moment, Vidya Balan has only one assignment, Aziz Mirza’s Kismat Konnection. “And it’s very different from every thing I’ve done so far. That’s how I like it. I don’t want to get repetitive so early in my career.”

She played Ajay Devgan’s supportive wife in the recently-released Halla Bol and feels proud of the work, no matter what its box-office outcome. “Whether it’s the amnesiac wife in Salaam-e-Ishq, the schizophrenic wife in Bhool Bhulaiyaa or the fiercely supportive wife of a philandering star in Halla Bol, I’m equally proud and possessive of all my films, no matter how they perform at the box-office.”

“My first release before even Parineeta was a Bengali film. It’s like coming home for me. Kolkata is home for me. I sincerely wanted to do it. This is my way of saying thank you to the film industry. It welcomes me at a time when I had no place in the Hindi film industry. I’ve always been fascinated by the land of Ray. It was a dream to have done a role in a Bengali as my very first film.” Even her character in Bhool Bhulaiyaa was eminently Bengali. “Yes and I worked so hard on the character…Awards nominations? I’d love to get the awards.

Why isn’t she in any of the big banners in Bollywood? “I crave to work with all of them. And I’m sure it’ll happen at the right time. Sometimes you strive hard for something and it doesn’t happen. Like I wanted to do another Bengali film. While I was trying it didn’t happen. When I stopped trying it happened.”

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