Vidya
Balan
who
never
touches
alcohol
has
shot
a
special
risque
number
entitled;
'Ibn
Batuta" in
Ishqiya
with
her
co-stars
Naseeruddin
Shah
and
Arshad
Warsi.
Says
Vidya,
“We
shot
the
song
last
month
after
the
entire
shooting
was
wrapped
up.
I
don"t
drink
and
I
had
to
act
sozzled
along
with
Naseer
Saab
and
Arshad."
The
track
will
be
used
in
the
opening
and
credit
titles
of
Ishqiya.
Says
Vidya,
“Arshad
is
a
fabulous
dancer.
And
Naseer
Saab
was
having
a
ball
dancing
to
the
song
Vishal
Bhardwaj
had
composed.
I
think
the
last
time
he
danced
was
for
'Oye
Oye" in
Tridev.
But
you
can"t
tell.
He"s
so
good.
Both
the
guys
were
having
so
much
fun
and
I
had
to
join
in
pretending
to
be
totally
drunk."
The
song
came
out
so
well
that
the
director
Abhishek
Choubey
was
thinking
of
using
it
in
the
narrative.
But
since
it
didn"t
fit
in,
'Ibn
Batuta"
will
now
just
be
part
of
the
credit
titles.
That
isn"t
the
only
daredevil
thing
Vidya
has
done
in
Ishqiya.
This
has
to
qualify
as
one
of
the
most
sensuous
things
a
mainstream
Hindi-film
heroine
is
seen
doing
in
any
movie.
In
what
Vidya
describes
as
the
most
blatant
come-hither
gesture
she
has
ever
seen
any
actress
in
Hindi
cinema
make,
in
Ishqiya
she
was
required
to
take
Arshad
Warsi"s
thumb
in
her
mouth
and
suck
on
it
suggestively.
Each
time
she
did
so
in
the
rehearsals
Vidya
would
burst
into
uncontrollable
giggles
and
Arshad
would
join
in.
Recalls
Vidya,
“Fortunately
Arshad
is
a
friend.
We"ve
gotten
along
well
from
the
time
we
did
Lage
Raho
Munnabhai
together.
I
don"t
know
I"d
have
been
able
to
do
a
scene
like
putting
my
co-star"s
finger
in
the
mouth
with
someone
else.
That
gesture
of
sucking
Arshad"s
thumb
was
so
raunchy
and
sexy,
so
not
me,
I
couldn"t
connect
with
it
all."
“That
sense
of
non-connectivity,"
says
Vidya,
runs
through
her
character
in
Ishqiya.
“I
play
this
rustic
voluptuous
woman.
All
my
weight-loss
happened
after
I
did
this
film.
I
had
to
look
filled
up
for
this
part.
In
Ishqiya
everything
from
the
way
I
wore
my
saree
to
the
way
I
looked
at
men,
was
alien
to
me.
The
role
exposed
me
to
a
new
way
of
interpreting
a
liberated
woman.
My
character
in
Ishqiya
may
not
know
about
feminism.
But
she"s
truly
liberated."
Vidya
is
now
looking
forward
to
the
release
of
Ishqiya
in
January.
“The
director
Abhishek
Choubey
had
to
constantly
keep
giving
me
a
pep
talk.
Quite
often
I
was
stuck
because
of
the
language
and
content.