Vidya Balan to celebrate b'day with family
Just a day before New Year, Vidya Balan returned to Mumbai in the wee hours of December 31, after holidaying for a fortnight with beau Siddharth Roy Kapur. And just in time, for the actress turns 33 today, and has plans to celebrate the New Year and her birthday with her family at home.Talking to DT, Vidya says that she's spent so much time outside her house this year that today she wants to spend it with her family - her parents, her sister and her brother-in-law, as well as their twins. "Usually, all my friends are hung over because of their New Year celebrations, and it's only around noon that they call. I'm the only sane one on the first of January. Since it's also a Sunday, I plan to be at home. For a long part of the year, I wasn't at home. So, it's family all the way for me today," she says.
Even though Vidya confesses to be "waiting for the kanjeevaram" that her parents gift her every year on her birthday, she seems quite content with the holiday she has just taken. She tells us, "It was the perfect end to the most hectic year. I just put my feet up in the air and chilled out. I couldn't have asked for a better ending to this mad, good year.
My phones weren't working since I was in a no-network zone. I was on a ranch, and it was stunning. I took walks, there were parks, and mountains. And I watched " Mad Men" and I'm obsessed with it now. The only connection I had with this world was that I called my folks once a day. I was in a place where the population was roughly 300, so I could hardly see any people. It was a welcome change. I have been so surrounded by people the whole year that I enjoyed that silence."
But work never leaves her side, and Vidya is looking forward to her next release in March. "I took along a couple of scripts on the trip, but got no time to read them. My year will really start on March 9, when "Kahaani" releases. Till that time, I want to decide on all that I want to accomplish this year - like learn Spanish and Urdu, horse riding, as well as learning to cook. I'm not someone who enjoys cooking, and I have only really entered the kitchen to see what's cooking, but this time I want to try cooking."
The learning-to-cook bit sounds like a plan for preparing for domesticity, we can't help but ask. "I have no such plans so far", she tells us. Then what about the apartment she's been gifted by Siddharth where, we hear, she is supposedly shifting by March this year? "Dil behalane ke liye yeh khayal achha hai Ghalib, but no, thank you. I'm happy where I am. God's been very kind. Even if I'd have imagined all that I wanted, I would've fallen short in view of what all he's given me. I only have a heart full of gratitude right now. I'm a happy 33-year-old, and if it's been good so far, it can only get better in the future, inshallah." We hope so too!
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