Whenever
you
see
Vidya
Balan
perform,
you
tend
to
believe
that
she
does
nothing
by
the
book.
Five
years
on,
Vidya's
star
has
risen
yet
further,
and
it
is
a
mark
of
how
untouched
she
is
-
how
real,
if
you
like
-
that
nothing
has
changed.
Whatever
it
was,
those
formative
experiences
served
her
well
in
her
chosen
career
as
an
actress.
Those
murky
corners
where
pain,
discord
and
ambiguity
are
rife
have
always
attracted
Vidya,
and
it's
really
the
truth
if
I
may
exaggerate,
that
Balan
is
swallowed
by
Bollywood
and
it
will
be
an
understatement
if
I
again
stress
on
the
fact
that
Vidya's
portrayal
of
diverse
and
distinguished
roles
is
a
testament
of
quality,
excelling
in
range,
power
and
versatility.
Her
forthcoming
role
of
Sabrina
Lal
from
No
One
Killed
Jessica
is
just
a
few
of
the
many
more
we
will
be
a
witness
to
in
the
days
to
come
and
in
the
near
future.
And
as
we
come
to
an
end
of
this
exhilarating
chat
with
one
of
India's
finest,
I
ponder
and
deliver
-
'What
would
possibly
go
wrong
if
Cleopatra
had
actually
met
Vidya
Balan?'
I
mean,
ever
wondered
how
Cleopatra
would've
looked
if
she
was
draped
in
a
Sabyasachi's
saree?
Our
correspondent
brings
you
part
two
of
the
exclusive
chat
with
India's
very
own
-
symbol
of
sexy
and
simplicity.
"When
you
talk
about
Jessica
Lal,
you
talk
about
Sabrina"
Cinema
is
all
about
stirring
emotions.
For
me,
that
happened
in
No
One
Killed
Jessica.
It
was
also
about
an
emotional
journey
of
Sabrina
who
was
the
face
of
the
case,
besides
the
media.
When
you
talk
about
Jessica
Lal,
you
talk
about
Sabrina
because
it
was
her
bravery
that
got
her
sister
justice.
"Raj
Kumar
Gupta
saw
me
in
my
costume
on
day
one
and
said,
'That's
my
Sabrina'"
I
asked
my
director
why
he
offered
me
the
role
of
Sabrina
and
not
the
media
person
played
by
Rani
Mukherjee.
It's
an
important
question
for
me.
He
informed
me
that
he
needed
an
emotional
graph
of
a
woman
and
that
I
was
the
only
one
who
could
pull
it
off.
This
is
one
film
that
I've
spoken
very
less
about
but
yet
I
want
to
go
on
and
on
about
it.
The
first
day
I
did
my
costume
trial
and
when
my
director
saw
me,
he
said,
"That's
my
Sabrina".
"The
promos
never
favoured
Rani
Mukherjee"
The
promos
never
favoured
Rani
Mukherjee.
The
story
is
about
these
two
people,
played
by
me
and
Rani.
The
purpose
of
both
these
women
were
the
same
-
to
give
justice,
but
their
approaches
were
very
different.
Sabrina
is
about
quiet
strength
and
she
looks
very
timid.
Sabrina
is
almost
like
a
wall
flower.
The
promo
can't
have
too
many
silent
moments.
It
has
to
have
frenzy.
"Sabyasachi
said
that
from
a
sexually
aggressive
character
I've
turned
into
an
asexual
unattractive
one"
Sabyasachi
went
with
Rani
Mukherjee
to
London
to
shop
for
her
clothes
for
No
one
Killed
Jessica.
He
is
such
a
designer
that
he
doesn't
see
films
as
a
showcase
for
his
clothes.
Sabyasachi
clothes
characters.
What
took
me
by
surprise
is
the
fact
that
he
came
from
London
and
said,
"I
got
your
clothes
too".
So
when
I
asked
him
why
he
didn't
take
me
along
with
him
to
London,
he
said,
"I
wanted
clothes
which
were
larger
and
not
your
size".
He
gave
me
tees
that
were
over
sized
and
completely
asexual.
He
told
me,
"From
the
sexually
aggressive
Krishna
in
Ishqiya,
comes
an
asexual
lady
who
ain't
pretty".
That
was
how
real
Sabyasachi
wanted
me
to
be
in
the
film.
"I
have
pushed
my
schizophrenia
to
an
unbelievable
limit"
Words
like
'commercial
cinema'
and
'art
house
cinema'
are
redundant
in
today's
time.
Categories
don't
exist
anymore
because
I
feel
that
a
good
film
will
always
work.
It
could
be
anything.
The
scale
of
a
film
may
differ
but
a
good
film
that
recovers
its
money
is
a
hit.
It
could
be
a
five
crore,
fifty
crore
or
a
hundred
crore
hit.
Personally,
every
film
I've
acted
in
has
given
me
something
different
to
do
and
I
have
pushed
my
schizophrenia
to
an
unbelievable
limit
(laughs).
"Zeenat
Aman
is
a
kind
of
sexy
that
is
graceful
sexy"
With
the
kind
of
clothes
Zeenat
Aman
wore,
she
carried
it
with
so
much
elegance.
You
never
looked
at
Zeenat
Aman
and
said
'cheap'.
She
was
an
epitome
of
'sexy'.
She
is
the
kind
of
sexy
that
is
'graceful
sexy'.
Even
when
you
see
her
in
her
bellbottoms,
she
looked
classy.
"My
director
stripped
me
of
all
the
excesses"
Raj
Kumar
Gupta
is
someone
who
is
very
instinctive.
Ever
since
I
have
made
my
debut,
I've
seen
directors
vision
change
and
how.
One
in
terms
of
treatment
they
give
to
their
scenes.
It's
real
and
not
conventional.
Directors
like
Abhishek
Chaubey,
Raj
Kumar
Gupta
and
Sujoy
Ghosh
are
unconventional
but
very
passionate
and
very
high
on
conviction.
That's
why
they
have
the
courage
to
make
the
types
of
films
they
want
to
make.
Secondly,
the
new
directors
strip
you
of
all
the
excesses.
When
I
watched
something
of
NOKJ,
I
asked
myself,
"Is
that
really
me?"
"Rani
Mukherjee
is
my
favourite
actress
amongst
my
immediate
seniors"
It's
exciting
to
work
with
a
good
actor
and
Rani
Mukherjee
is
someone
who
I've
always
liked.
I've
liked
her
in
Bunty
Aur
Babli,
Raja
Ki
Aayegi
Baarat
and
Black.
Rani
Mukherjee
is
my
favourite
actress
amongst
my
immediate
seniors.
Like
I
said,
acting
is
about
reacting
and
when
you
work
with
an
actor
like
Rani,
its
great
fun.
We
don't
have
too
many
scenes
together
in
the
film
but
we
have
worked
together
for
a
few
days.
We
got
along
very
well.
"I
love
the
song
'Aitbaar'
which
talks
about
Sabrina's
journey
Amit
Trivedi's
music
and
Amitabh
Bhattacharya's
lyrics
complement
each
other.
The
first
time
I
heard
the
song
'Dilli
Dilli'
I
thought
that
it
had
some
kind
of
weird
energy
about
it.
There
is
another
favourite
track
of
mine
called
'Aitbaar'
which
is
really
about
Sabrina's
journey
and
there
is
a
crazy
song
like
'Saali'.
Three
diverse
songs
which
has
everything
to
do
with
the
film
and
its
characters
-
Delhi,
Sabrina
and
Rani's
character.
"One
of
the
newspapers
carried
a
headline
-
No
one
killed
Jessica,
and
that
became
our
title"
The
title
is
very
ambiguous
but
it
has
a
deeper
meaning
to
it.
The
day
after
the
initial
court
case
of
Jessica
Lal,
when
everyone
got
acquitted
and
the
witnesses
turned
hostile,
the
conclusion
was
seen
in
the
next
day's
newspapers
with
a
headline
saying
'No
One
Killed
Jessica'.
I
like
this
title
because
it
says
a
lot
about
the
film
and
yet
says
nothing.
I
loved
the
titles
Ishqiya,
Dabangg
and
Lage
Raho
Munnabhai,
not
because
it
had
Munnabhai
but
because
it
had
'Lage
Raho'.
It
was
simple.
I
loved
Parineeta
too
without
sounding
biased.