Vidya Balan on her debut as radio jockey

Where many famous names are sticking to the film industry when taking on different careers, Vidya Balan has gone one step further and has decided to take on the radio mic. Having been offered the job of a radio jockey on show titled ‘Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho’ the actress recently spoke to the media about her new role.

“When I was offered the show to be a radio jockey, I wondered what can I do on radio. The jokes are really good but the idea ‘Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho’ was phenomenal. I won’t give a chance for anyone to talk because I love talking. When you keep talking to people, you understand issues, relationships and oneself better. We have not come to change the world. We need to change oneself,” Deccan Chronicle reports Balan stating.

Addressing real issues that people have to deal with, one of Balan’s biggest subject was one that is rather close to her heart, as she herself has been scrutinised for the way she looks. “I have experienced it throughout my life. Call it the judgement of the body or body shaming because I am not the perfect body type that heroines normally are. Growing up I was not even the perfect body type that boys would fall for. I always felt that I was happy with myself but then I used to be called moti (fat) in school. And, when I would walk with a thin friend of mine, we were called Laurel and Hardy. When I went to do films, people looked at me and asked ‘you want to be an actor? It breaks your confidence. Body confidence is extremely important,” she said.

“But I felt that people, though not consciously, were making me feel less than what I thought of myself in my body. Now I am very comfortable. I think I have come a long way. But women and teenage girls fall prey to this. It affects us. There are some who think, ‘I should not wear sleeveless because I have fat arms’. We are all beyond the body but we are only seeing ourselves in terms of the body,” she went on to add.

As well as the real issues, Balan will also take on lighter sbject as well, as she explained, “Why should only youngsters romance? Why is it so difficult for us to understand that there is more than the romance between our parents? Else we wouldn’t have been born. On a personal note, I will make sure that I will keep the romance in my marriage burning till the end. I don’t know what my husband Siddharth (Roy Kapur) thinks about it, lekin woh phas gaye hain.(but he has been trapped),” she signs off.

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