{"id":7974,"date":"2020-07-27T04:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2020-07-27T04:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T04:56:23","slug":"vidya-balan-shakuntala-devi-is-not-a-puff-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/27\/vidya-balan-shakuntala-devi-is-not-a-puff-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidya Balan: Shakuntala Devi is not a puff piece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bollywood actor Vidya\nBalan plays the titular role in Shakuntala Devi. The film, also starring Jisshu\nSengupta, Sanya Malhotra and Amit Sadh, releases on Amazon Prime Video on July\n31.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When the trailer of Shakuntala Devi first\ndropped, it made me wonder that out of all the contemporary Indian actors,\nthere was no one I could imagine in this role, but Vidya Balan<\/a>. If that\u2019s the magic of Vidya or\nthe role that was tailor-made for her, is something we\u2019ll know after the film\npremieres on Friday on Amazon Prime Video. However, from what we have seen so\nfar, Vidya takes on the persona of Shakuntala Devi quite well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an exclusive virtual conversation with\u00a0indianexpress.com<\/a>, Vidya Balan shared her joys of playing Shakuntala Devi, who was nicknamed the \u201cHuman Computer\u201d. Vidya too knew Shakuntala as an exemplary mathematician, but as she delved deeper into her life with director Anu Menon, she learnt that the academician \u201cdefied every notion you have of a mathematical genius.\u201d \u201cShe was so full of life, had a wicked sense of humour. She was like a complex equation,\u201d the actor shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While this film is a biopic, Vidya\nacknowledged that it is \u201cnot a puff piece.\u201d What excited her while taking up\nthis project was \u201cthe scope to tell Shakuntala Devi\u2019s story as unapologetically\nas possible.\u201d What the actor said about this not being a \u201cpuff piece\u201d intrigued\nme as many-a-times in Hindi cinema, we see hagiographies in the garb of\nbiographies. Vidya kept the film\u2019s secrets close to her chest but did reveal\nthat we are in for a story that examines the gender dynamics of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bollywood actor Vidya Balan plays the titular role in Shakuntala Devi. The film, also starring Jisshu Sengupta, Sanya Malhotra and Amit Sadh, releases on Amazon Prime Video on July 31. When the trailer of Shakuntala Devi first dropped, it made me wonder that out of all the contemporary Indian actors, there was no one I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[7947,82,11055,11382,2830,12789,8470,13186,9700,12979,208],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-amazon-prime","tag-bollywood","tag-bollywood-celebrity","tag-bollywood-fashion","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-style","tag-new-release","tag-ott","tag-shakuntala-devi","tag-short-film","tag-vidya-balan"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7977,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/7977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}