“Somewhere I BELIEVE Vidya has made the daring but right career choices. I see glimpses of my very own involvement with my roles in Vidya Balan,” say Shabana appreciatively after watching Balan in” Kahaani”.
Shabana is currently playing a wily politician in Rajkot for Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola”. She took time without work from her shooting to look at Sujoy Ghosh’s masterpiece that remains going houseful.
“I needed to watch ‘Kahaani’ on account of Vidya. I USED TO BE greatly surprised by her performance. As an actor, I'LL see she was making the entire right moves within the film. There has been not a single artificial note in her performance,” said Shabana, known for powerful performances in “Arth”, “Masoom”, “Fire” and “Godmother”.
But Shabana sounds a note of caution within the euphoria surrounding Vidya’s rise to the top.
“If she continues to dominate her films, she might very soon face an absence of co-stars. Heroes may well be apprehensive about being paired with her,” said the 61-year-old who faced that situation when films featuring her within the central role co-starred Vinod Mehra or Marc Zuber.
In “Kahaani”, Vidya found the Bengali star Parambrata Chatterjee sportingly supporting her heroine-centric presence within the film. But would she run out of co-stars in her future efforts at hero-giri?
“Vidya should avoid the pitfall of only doing central parts. She also needs to enjoy doing peripheral parts up to the pivotal ones. Being the centre of attention might be addictive. She must learn how to even be a part of a cinema that doesn’t do something about her but has something important to say,” suggested Shabana. – IANS
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