Vidya Balan has revealed that she has gone way back with fellow Bollywood actresses Shilpa Shetty and Malaika Arora. While Shilpa was a senior in school, Malaika was her neighbor in the Chembur area where she spent her childhood. (Also Read: Neeyat Ticket Collection Day 1: Vidya Balan’s thriller earns a dismal ₹1.02 crore)
Vidya Balan is a Tamilian who hails from Kerala and was born and brought up in Chembur, Mumbai. She married film producer Siddharth Roy Kapur in 2012 and then moved to Bandra.
Shilpa taught Vidya to dribble
In an interview on YouTube channel CurlyTales, Vidya said, “Shilpa was my senior by I think three years. She was always the hot one. She was also a basketball player. I remember one day, my mom decided to play basketball. At 6 in the morning I started to play basketball. And there were already rumblings that Shilpa might enter films and such. And I remember she was so sweet. I will never forget that he taught me how to dribble the ball. And I thought, ‘Abhi toh mujhe aa gaya sab kuchh’ (Now I have learned everything there is). I said to my mom, “Maine is looking for Liya. Kal se nahi jenna hai. Subah uth ke nahi jana hai’ (I have learned everything. I don’t need to get up in the morning and go over it again)’.
Malaika was also “hot”
“There was also Malaika Arora. He was from another school. But I remember her walking down the lane at a certain time for her French lessons, which was in my lane. And all the boys would be sitting outside at that time, waiting for Malaika to pass by. Just Chembur has produced too many hotties. What should we do (laughs),” Vidya said in the same interview.
Vidya’s new movie
Vidya’s latest film Neeyat is a murder mystery directed by Anu Menon, who previously worked with the actor for the biopic on Math genius Shakuntala Devi. Neeyat sees Vidya playing a detective and solving a high-profile murder in a secluded Agatha Christie-style mansion. The film was released on July 7 and opened briefly ₹1 crore at the box office.
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