Vidya Balan has a ball in Kolkata

While Vidya Balan who considers herself half Bengali had herself a ball in Kolkata last week shooting for Rajkumar Gupta’s No One Killed Jessica. Rani Mukherjee who is a fully certified Bengali was not to be seen in her home-town.

Going by the way Vidya’s shooting schedule went in Kolkata, it was all for the best if Rani stayed away.

Apparently, the 2-day schedule had to be shot with secret cameras in prominent public places where the security was most inadequate.

Says the source, “We had to shoot in crowded locations like the Kolkata airport, Ballyganj, Park Circus, and New Market. The crowds in these places were impossible to control. We had placed the cameras secretly. Vidya would then get into camera range and before the bystanders recognized the star we were out. If Rani had also accompanied Vidya it would’ve been impossible to control”.

Director Rajkumar Gupta is tightlipped about the details in Kolkata. “All I can tell you is that shooting in Kolkata was even tougher than Delhi. But it was fun. By now I am used to shooting in crowded main streets with my actors. It was the last two days of shooting. On the second day after we finished (dress designer) Sabysachi Chakraborty who belongs to Kolkata, took the entire unit out for dinner. We had some terrific Bengali food. We celebrated till the wee hours”. Rani, alas, was no part of the celebration.

Vidya Balan refuses to work with RGV

It seems, not only the audiences but also the actors have lost trust in RGV now. Latest, we hear that the sensuous Vidya Balan who has taken the nation by storm with her performances has refused to work with Ramu. She was offered a role in his upcoming film Shaque which is about the trouble that suspicion causes in a married couples lives, which she refused to play.This is not for the first time that any actress has refused to do his film, before Vidya, Ramu had approached Sridevi to do the role as her comeback but when she turned down the offer he went to the newbie Sahana Goswami, to all our surprise, she too is amongst the actresses who refused Ramu for this role.Can anyone would have imagined that the man behind the stupendous crafts like Satya and Rangeela will ever find it tough to get one actress in his film, but it’s true! ?