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Vidya Balan Started Her Acting Career With ₹500 For Tourism Campaign; Told To Pose Beside Tree & Smile

by Tania Tarafdar
Vidya Balan Started Her Acting Career With ₹500 For Tourism Campaign; Told To Pose Beside Tree & Smile

Each time Vidya Balan treats us with her unconventional performance in a movie, we love her even more. This time, the queen of Bollywood is roaring back with Amazon Prime Video India’s ‘Sherni’. And while the actress has always portrayed strong, fiercely independent women in popular movies such as ‘The Dirty Picture’ (2011) and ‘Kahaani’, in
In ‘Sherni,’ Balan plays a forest officer who attempts to track down a disturbed tigress while battling patriarchal society.

Vidya’s First Project Was For A Tourism Campaign

During an interview with Zoom, the actor revealed that the first paycheque she earned was for a tourism campaign and not for a show or a movie. All she had to do was, stand near a tree and smile and she received a salary of ₹500 for the same.

Vidya told Zoom in an interview, “My first-ever salary was ₹500 for a state tourism campaign. Four of us – my sister, me, and a cousin and a friend I think went along – and each of us got paid 500 bucks.” She further added, “We had to just stand beside a tree, and just smile.”

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Vidya Balan Strikes Blow Against Patriarchy In Sherni

Amit Masurkar’s Sherni starring Vidya Balan is slated to release on June 18, on Amazon Prime Video. About her character in Sherni, Vidya shared in a PTI interview that, she’s a person of very few words, smiles rarely but she is a doer. She added “It’s like this saying that you don’t need to roar to be a tigress. So my character is a tigress but she does not roar.”

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We cannot wait to watch Vidya Balan’s enthralling performance once again. What about you?

First Published: June 17, 2021 11:56 AM