Vidya is criticized many times for her weight and poor sense of style in the forum. I even remember a topic where Kat picked on her and it generated a huge debate.
About the general positivity regarding Vidya i think it has got to do with the fact that she is consistently giving great performances from many years now and is winning awards and has been doing good at box office too. Even Ishqiya did decently at box office and won awards, Paa did great at box office and won awards and now TDP has done great at box office and is going to win many awards.
I don't even think that Vidya is the underdog anymore. She is the only actress who has the lethal combo of having great box office record and also getting critical acclaim. Bebo and Kat only have box office and PC has some critical acclaim... and Vidya has both. So techincally speaking VB is ruling right now! So people on online forums and elsewhere are going to be positive about Vidya... just the way they were positive about Kareena and PC when they had JWM and Fashion. Yes with some positivity we will have negativity too... but when an actress delivers and people feel that atleast someone is trying to do something creative acting wise in a very male dominated industry.. then people are going to be postive about them.
Edited by LaDy_GaGa - 13 years ago
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