Priya Gupta (BOMBAY TIMES; March 20, 2014)

We were surprised when we learnt of Vidya Balan having opted out of Sujoy Ghosh’s next edge-of-the-seat thriller Durga Rani Singh as we all know how professional Vidya is. While we had earlier reported that Vidya’s reason for not doing the film is her pregnancy, Vidya clarified to us that her not doing the film had nothing to do with pregnancy as she is not pregnant yet. Ever since she got married to head honcho Siddharth Roy Kapur, she had not taken a break and so she has decided to give herself a couple of months to just holiday and look after her house. Knowing fully well that Sujoy would be paranoid knowing that Vidya was no longer in the film, as they share a great personal and professional rapport, she, in fact, picked up the phone and recommended Kangana Ranaut to him as she simply loved her performance in Queen. Vidya is still committed to her next project Hamari Adhuri Kahani, which will be directed by Mohit Suri and has Emraan Hashmi in the lead with her. She is currently holidaying in the US with her husband. We hope she enjoys these next couple of months just playing herself at home.