Vidya Balan is an Indian film actress who has established herself as one of the most prominent actresses of the Hindi film industry. She made her screen debut in 2000 with "Kaminey" and went on to act in more than 50 Hindi films. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Page 3". She has received three National Film Awards, two Filmfare Awards, and four Screen Awards.
She made her Bollywood debut in the 1999 film "Kaminey", directed by Rahul Rawail
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Her performance in the film was well appreciated and she received positive reviews for her debut role. The following year she starred in "Jawani Ho Tumse" (2000), which received positive reviews as well. Her portrayal of the character Shabnam earned her critical acclaim, and earned her a nomination at Filmfare, where she won the award for Best Actress.
Although she has appeared in Bollywood films throughout the 2000s, she is best known for her role as Sheetal, an office clerk played by Vidya Balan in "Page 3" (2003), a comedy-drama film that was a box-office hit.
Balan's first appearance on television was on Zee TV show Zor Ka Jhatka (2002). The following year, she appeared on television again with Zee TV's Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii (2002) and Hum Paanch (2003). In 2005, Balan appeared briefly in the serial "Yeh Meri Family" on Star Plus.
In 2009, she was seen playing the leading role of Sita Raval in Star Plus' television adaptation of Ramayan.
Balan's first release outside Bollywood was the Hollywood film "De Dana Dan" (2007), which featured Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Her performance was met with mixed reviews; although her acting skills were praised by critics, her portrayal of an unscrupulous woman was criticized by some reviewers as being too stereotypical to be believable. However, Balan's Bollywood debut proved to be an international success, quickly becoming one of India's highest-grossing films ever released domestically at the time.
Her performance as Durga Dahan earned critical acclaim from critics, who praised her acting skills and singled out her performance as being especially noteworthy for being so different from what they had expected from a Bollywood actress. Her next venture into Hollywood cinema was with "The Dirty Picture" (2008), which
