<p>She loves campaigning for causes, but National Award winning actress Vidya Balan has no intention of stepping out of the arclights to make it a full-time career because acting is what she lives for. Besides, she feels the country is currently "very disillusioned with politics and politicians".<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I am very happy being an actor. If being a known face, a film star or celebrity can draw attention to a cause and get people interested in knowing more about it... I am happy. But acting is what I live for and I don't see myself ever entering politics," Vidya told IANS in an interview.<br /><br />The 35-year-old endorses the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan sanitation campaign and Nihar Naturals Shanti Amla, which started a 'Chotte Kadam Pragati Ki Aur' campaign in association with NGO Child Rights and You in September 2012. It aims to empower women to help children's education in India.<br /><br />As much as Vidya believes in the power of such campaigns, she is more comfortable doing these from outside the circle of politics.<br /><br />"I think that at this point, more than ever, we are all very disillusioned with politics and politicians...so that's not a space I want to enter at all. I am more committed to what I am doing right now," she said.<br /><br />In fact, "The Dirty Picture" star loves her acting profession so much that she never even wants to go behind the camera or handle production work a la her husband, Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing director of Studios, Disney UTV.<br /><br />Vidya admits she neither understands numbers nor is she inclined towards writing for or directing films.<br /><br />"I write my diary every day, but not anything else. I am too consumed with being in front of the camera. Even if I went behind the camera, I'd get frustrated... if I directed or wrote a film, I'd like to see only myself playing all the parts. I would replace all the actors and do it myself," she said.<br /><br />She is quite capable of this too - given the variety of roles that she has essayed on the big screen. She portrayed an unwed mother in "Paa", a loud Punjabi woman in "Ghanchakkar" and a sex symbol in "The Dirty Picture" with utmost ease and conviction.<br /><br />Now she is game to go bad too!<br /><br />"I think there is a villain in each one as much as there is a seductress or a mother or lover or a daughter. So I'd love to play that too," said Vidya, who will be seen with actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar in "Shaadi ke Side Effects" in 2014.<br /><br />Having made her cinematic debut in 2005 with "Parineeta", an adaptation of a 1914 eponymous Bengali novel, Vidya has proved her versatility film after film. Her strong presence and performance in films like "No One Killed Jessica" and "Kahaani" have made her a sought after name in Bollywood.<br /><br />What she doesn't enjoy, however, is doing remakes of films.<br /><br />"I don't think any film should be remade, especially if they are classics...unless you are able to give something new like what (filmmaker) Anurag Kashyap did with 'Dev D'. It was a very interesting twist," Vidya said.<br /><br />"If it's already been told beautifully on screen once, why do you want to retell it," she questioned.</p>
<p>She loves campaigning for causes, but National Award winning actress Vidya Balan has no intention of stepping out of the arclights to make it a full-time career because acting is what she lives for. Besides, she feels the country is currently "very disillusioned with politics and politicians".<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I am very happy being an actor. If being a known face, a film star or celebrity can draw attention to a cause and get people interested in knowing more about it... I am happy. But acting is what I live for and I don't see myself ever entering politics," Vidya told IANS in an interview.<br /><br />The 35-year-old endorses the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan sanitation campaign and Nihar Naturals Shanti Amla, which started a 'Chotte Kadam Pragati Ki Aur' campaign in association with NGO Child Rights and You in September 2012. It aims to empower women to help children's education in India.<br /><br />As much as Vidya believes in the power of such campaigns, she is more comfortable doing these from outside the circle of politics.<br /><br />"I think that at this point, more than ever, we are all very disillusioned with politics and politicians...so that's not a space I want to enter at all. I am more committed to what I am doing right now," she said.<br /><br />In fact, "The Dirty Picture" star loves her acting profession so much that she never even wants to go behind the camera or handle production work a la her husband, Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing director of Studios, Disney UTV.<br /><br />Vidya admits she neither understands numbers nor is she inclined towards writing for or directing films.<br /><br />"I write my diary every day, but not anything else. I am too consumed with being in front of the camera. Even if I went behind the camera, I'd get frustrated... if I directed or wrote a film, I'd like to see only myself playing all the parts. I would replace all the actors and do it myself," she said.<br /><br />She is quite capable of this too - given the variety of roles that she has essayed on the big screen. She portrayed an unwed mother in "Paa", a loud Punjabi woman in "Ghanchakkar" and a sex symbol in "The Dirty Picture" with utmost ease and conviction.<br /><br />Now she is game to go bad too!<br /><br />"I think there is a villain in each one as much as there is a seductress or a mother or lover or a daughter. So I'd love to play that too," said Vidya, who will be seen with actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar in "Shaadi ke Side Effects" in 2014.<br /><br />Having made her cinematic debut in 2005 with "Parineeta", an adaptation of a 1914 eponymous Bengali novel, Vidya has proved her versatility film after film. Her strong presence and performance in films like "No One Killed Jessica" and "Kahaani" have made her a sought after name in Bollywood.<br /><br />What she doesn't enjoy, however, is doing remakes of films.<br /><br />"I don't think any film should be remade, especially if they are classics...unless you are able to give something new like what (filmmaker) Anurag Kashyap did with 'Dev D'. It was a very interesting twist," Vidya said.<br /><br />"If it's already been told beautifully on screen once, why do you want to retell it," she questioned.</p>