How did Vidya break the jinx?

Vidya Balan

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan said she was labelled as jinxed in the industry as her projects were getting shelved. “My family went with the perception of cinema being a big, bad world. I told my parents that I will do one film and I will quit. I got signed for a Malayalam film which was shelved. Later, there were three films that I was part of, which were shelved. I was labelled jinxed. I was thrown out of films because of that,” she said.

The Parineeta protagonist said her initial struggle had a silver lining when her parents, who were opposing her choice to be in the films, later wanted that at least one of her films should be completed.

The 37-year-old actress said when she was going through a rough phase and was shooting a song for the band Euphoria, she met Pradeep Sarkar (director of

Parineeta ) who offered her the film, which she thought would not be completed. “I met Pradeep Sarkar during shooting for Euphoria. He said I will do the film with you.. I said ‘kitne aye kitne gaye’ (so many came and went); I did not believe him but I later did

Parineeta with him,” she recalled.