Shortest time I took to say yes to a film: Vidya Balan on ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ | Bollywood
Mumbai, Actor Vidya Balan, who played Manjulika in the 2007 hit “Bhool Bhulaiyaa”, says it was the shortest time she took to say yes to a movie and that too without reading the script. HT Image Balan had seen the original Malayalam movie “Manichitrathazhu” and when Priyadarshan offered her the role, done by Shobhna in the original, she jumped at the chance. Unlock exclusive access to the story of India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! The Hindi version featured Akshay Kumar as a pyshcharatist and Balan as Avni, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Shiney Ahuja played her husband in the movie. Balan is all set to make a return to the third part of the comedy horror movie. “I remember I went to meet Priyan sir . He was shooting an ad with Sunny Deol in Mumbai, so he said, ‘Can you come to the set and meet me?’ I had watched the original Malayalam film ‘Manichitrathazhu’ as a kid, and I loved Shobana but I was also scared of …