Vidya Balan shares her horrifying experiences from South Indian Film industry

Life is hard for actors and actresses as they too see the days when they run out of work and feel like there is no way to go. Vidya Balan who is now a successful actress and has many great movies to her name, shares a similar journey and in a recent interview with a leading entertainment portal, she revealed the kind of days she has seen.

Vidya has not only ruled  Bollywood but she has tried her hands in South film industry too. But down south, she had to face the pricks too. Recalling her journey, she said, "There were a lot of rejections down South. There were a lot of Malayalam films, but I was replaced in each of them. 

"There was a Tamil film I was doing and I was thrown out of the film...I remember my parents had come with me because they were so worried about me...I had really begun to fade. We went to the producers office. The producer showed us the clippings from the film and he said, 'Just look at her, does she look like a heroine. He said 'I was not in favour of taking her at all, it was the director who insisted."

Vidya kept on saying, "They already had replaced me and my father after knowing that, called up the producer asking if they can meet because he wanted to know what was going wrong. They wanted to know what was the problem."

Talking about the way it was all making her feel Vidya said, "I felt ugly...I felt like sh*t for months and I don't think I looked at myself in the mirror... I didn't like what I saw because I thought I was ugly...For the longest time, I did not forgive that man, but today, thanks to that I realized that I have to love and accept myself the way I am."

Sharing another nightmarish experience, Vidya said, "There was another Tamil film that was locked on the phone and it was not organised in the way that they are today...I didn't know any better so I was like ok and committed to doing the film. I land up in Chennai and I shot with him for a day and really felt uncomfortable with the kind of humour that was in the film. I left the film and then they sent me a legal notice."

But all is well that keeps well. She is now seeing the stars of success. Her recent movie Mission Mangal is doing brilliantly well on the box office and has already raked in 100 crores.