The Event

Vidya Balan at 54th IFFI (International Film Festival of India) in Goa which was held from 20 November to 28th November 2023. Many big celebrities Anupam Kher, Ayushman Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal, Siddharth Malhotra, Salman Khan, AR Rahman and others who graced the festival by their presence she was one of them. She has given a masterclass at the festival. She spoke about the journey in Bollywood as an actor. She talked about her body image, and she gave lessons and advise on judgment problems. she even performed on the hit song from her movies at the opening.

Masterclass on women

Vidya Balan has the stage with Actor-politician Vani Tripathi Tikoo. Vidya Balan spoke about the women and glass ceiling. She said how she started hating herself and abusing by blaming it that her body is not how she wanted it to be. She was falling sick because of the negativity she sent to her body. She started working with healers 12 years ago and realized about the abusive behavior of her towards her own body. The body which was keeping her alive. She felt awkward because of her physical appearance that clouded her performance.

Game changer in her life

She said that when she realized the fact that she is really ‘thankful‘ for the ‘body and breath‘ she has is something is really grateful of. She said her size has never mattered her when she faced camera. She loved camera and believed on it so much that it will always love her back.
It was a game changer since then and till now she feels so good about herself. Every day she wakes up in morning feeling good if not she believes that tomorrow will be a new day, so she let her self-live however she feels that day. Our body shows all emotions like angry, jealous, grateful, hurt, tearful and all she had started feeling small in her bigness and that was not good. She added.

The advice For Judgments.

Vidya Balan said that those who are troubled by society’s judgement is that forget about how you are judged and who judged you, how do they judge yourself is important when you look at yourself in mirror, how you feel even if you don’t feel good that’s okay. We all are humans and we do have good and bad days, but fake it till you make it. Tell yourself daily that I love and accept myself, a little more every day, and it really works. We women made our body parts a big identity of ourselves.

She also said about women in Indian cinema that women are way ahead of time in today’s world, so they need to the stereotypes regarding women. Women played exceptional role in Indian films that made people get on. Stage and talk about them and make movies.

About Viday Balan

Vidya Balan is a 44-year-old National Award-winning actress. The actress has played a variety of unconventional and remarkable roles in her two-decade-long career, such as ‘Parineeta’, ‘Bhoola Bhulaiya’, ‘Paa’, ‘Kahani’, ‘The Dirty Picture’, ‘Shakuntala Devi’, and ‘Shareni’, to name a few.

Overview

the session was on the body shame and body image. vidya Balan is one of the most popular and successful actresses of the industry open up about her own experience and how she deals with it. it’s not everyone is born with a good image or anything, but you need to be with yourself is what she meant. love yourself daily. what you give to your body will eventually come back to you. it is being said that our body and organs feel the same emotion what we feel. so, love yourself a bit more every day.