<p>From being a demure dame in 'Parineeta' to being a mother in 'Paa' to a sly temptress in 'Ishqiya' to southern siren in 'The Dirty Picture' and now a pregnant woman in 'Kahani', actress Vidya Balan has come a long way and she is happy that filmmakers are not typecasting her.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Over the past two-three years, there have been writers and directors who have been saying that they are writing roles keeping me in mind. I think what has happened after ‘Dirty Picture’ is that people think I am open to experimentation, I am game for all kinds of roles but luckily they are not looking to typecast me," Vidya said in an interview.<br /><br />She has given back-to-back hit films starting from R Balki’s 'Paa' (2009) alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Ishqiya’ (2010) opposite Nasseruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi, Raj Kumar Gupta’s ‘No One Killed Jessica’ (2011) alongside Rani Mukherjee, Milan Luthria’s ‘The Dirty Picture’ (2011).<br /><br />"The proportion of success in that sense is humongous. Even after ‘Paa’, ‘Ishqiya’, ‘No One Killed Jessica’, people said now what? Are you narrowing down your options? I don't think about these things. God has brought me till here and he will take me further," Vidya said.<br /><br />"I am here to act. I am not saying that I will do only such roles or solo heroine projects. I want to do different genres of film with different actors and directors," she said.<br />In director Sujoy Ghosh’s soon-to-be released film ‘Kahani’, Vidya essays the role of a pregnant woman who comes to Kolkata in search of her husband.<br /><br />Ask her what homework she did for the role, Vidya says, “In my college days when I used to travel by train with friends from Chembur to VT station (in Mumbai), I had seen many pregnant women. I used to imitate them.... I think it comes naturally to a woman to carry a baby bump."<br /><br />"It was not pillow but a prosthetic stomach that was used (for the scene). I could not sit easily as it would hurt me. There was pressure on lower back as well," she said.<br />The thriller film will hit cinema houses on Friday.</p>
<p>From being a demure dame in 'Parineeta' to being a mother in 'Paa' to a sly temptress in 'Ishqiya' to southern siren in 'The Dirty Picture' and now a pregnant woman in 'Kahani', actress Vidya Balan has come a long way and she is happy that filmmakers are not typecasting her.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Over the past two-three years, there have been writers and directors who have been saying that they are writing roles keeping me in mind. I think what has happened after ‘Dirty Picture’ is that people think I am open to experimentation, I am game for all kinds of roles but luckily they are not looking to typecast me," Vidya said in an interview.<br /><br />She has given back-to-back hit films starting from R Balki’s 'Paa' (2009) alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Ishqiya’ (2010) opposite Nasseruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi, Raj Kumar Gupta’s ‘No One Killed Jessica’ (2011) alongside Rani Mukherjee, Milan Luthria’s ‘The Dirty Picture’ (2011).<br /><br />"The proportion of success in that sense is humongous. Even after ‘Paa’, ‘Ishqiya’, ‘No One Killed Jessica’, people said now what? Are you narrowing down your options? I don't think about these things. God has brought me till here and he will take me further," Vidya said.<br /><br />"I am here to act. I am not saying that I will do only such roles or solo heroine projects. I want to do different genres of film with different actors and directors," she said.<br />In director Sujoy Ghosh’s soon-to-be released film ‘Kahani’, Vidya essays the role of a pregnant woman who comes to Kolkata in search of her husband.<br /><br />Ask her what homework she did for the role, Vidya says, “In my college days when I used to travel by train with friends from Chembur to VT station (in Mumbai), I had seen many pregnant women. I used to imitate them.... I think it comes naturally to a woman to carry a baby bump."<br /><br />"It was not pillow but a prosthetic stomach that was used (for the scene). I could not sit easily as it would hurt me. There was pressure on lower back as well," she said.<br />The thriller film will hit cinema houses on Friday.</p>
