Vidya Balan On Bhool Bhulaiyaa: "Shortest Time I Took To Say Yes To A Film"
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"I said yes instantly. There was no script or anything because I had seen the original," Vidya Balan said
Actor Vidya Balan, who played Manjulika in the 2007 hit Bhool Bhulaiyaa, says it was the shortest time she took to say yes to a movie and that too without reading the script. Vidya Balan had seen the original Malayalam movie Manichitrathazhu and when Priyadarshan offered her the role, done by Shobhna in the original, she jumped at the chance. The Hindi version featured Akshay Kumar as a pyshcharatist and Balan as Avni, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Shiney Ahuja played her husband in the movie.
Vidya Balan is all set to make a return to the third part of the comedy horror movie.
"I remember I went to meet Priyan sir (Priyadarshan). He was shooting an ad with Sunny Deol in Mumbai, so he said, 'Can you come to the set and meet me?' I had watched the original Malayalam film Manichitrathazhu (1993) as a kid, and I loved Shobana but I was also scared of her, and I've not watched the film ever again.
