I want to be versatile, says Vidya Balan




















Vidya Balan is a Tamil Iyer born on the 1st January 1978 in Palakkad, Kerala. Her father is P.R.Balan who is the vice president of ETC channel while her mother is a homemaker. She has an older sister, Priya.
She studied in Mumbai at St Anthony’s School and later graduated in Sociology from St Xavier’s College, after which she enrolled for M.A from the Mumbai University. She speaks several languages like Tamil, Malayalam, English, Hindi and Bengali.
Pradeep Sarkar directed her in many ads as well as music videos for singers like Euphoria, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas. She was also part of the initial episodes of Ekta Kapoor’s Hum Paanch.
Balan has been linked with several of her co-stars which she has deni