Vidya Balan’s father  P.R. Balan, says he was quite impressed with his daughter’s performance in The Dirty Picture and feels she is a born actress.Balan’s father, said: “I sent her the message on 26 November, 2011, ‘bold and beautiful, fantastic, you are a born actress. An actor par excellence. I am proud of you I did not find anything vulgar in The Dirty Picture.”Released last year, The Dirty Picture was an unofficial biopic of southern sex symbol Silk Smitha. Balan played the lead role. Both critics and audiences liked it.Balan’s father said he knew the film would be a super hit.

On a good day, Bollywood star Vidya Balan spends her time weaving in and out of a crowded Mumbai railway station with a fake pregnant belly strapped to her body. Throw in a staggering 43 interviews, and you've got a Balan bad day."It gets really crazy at times," says Balan . She was on her way to the airport to catch a flight to Delhi to continue her unusual promotion of Kahaani, her latest film, which premieres at Dubai's Grand Cineplex.

"It's a lot more exhausting and tiring during promotions because there's no other known face in the film," adds Balan, who has parlayed her earlier film successes — The Dirty Picture, Ishqiya, Paa — into this role, which sees her carry much of the film alone.Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, Kahaani is a tale of London-based Vidya Bagchi, who embarks on a mission to find her missing husband. She's seven months pregnant when her husband-hunt leads her to vibrant Kolkata. Unlike her last film, the award-winning risque drama The Dirty Picture, she doesn't have popular actors Naseeruddin Shah and Emraan Hashmi bolstering the film by lending it extra star power.