National Award winning actress Vidya Balan is set to make her radio debut with Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho.
Vidya Balan has played the role of a radio jockey in Lage Raho Munnabhai. Her last release Tumhari Sulu also saw her becoming an RJ as the story progressed. Talking about her real-life stinit in radio, the actress says it was her love for conversations that made her take up the role. “When I was offered the show to be a radio jockey, I wondered what can I do on radio. The jokes are really good but the idea of Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho was phenomenal. I won’t give a chance for anyone to talk because I love talking. When you keep talking to people, you understand issues, relationships and oneself better. We have not come to change the world. We need to change oneself,” she was quoted by DC.
Among the topics she would be discussing is women’s body shape – an issue the actress herself has had to deal with and today’s women are obsessed with.
The actress, who was subject to body shaming and insults, says women and teenage girls become the victims of this. “I have experienced it throughout my life. Call it the judgement of the body or body shaming because I am not the perfect body type that heroines normally are. Growing up I was not even the perfect body type that boys would fall for. I always felt that I was happy with myself but then I used to be called moti (fat) in school. And, when I would walk with a thin friend of mine, we were called Laurel and Hardy.”
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Things were no different in the film industry either. “When I went to do films, people looked at me and asked ‘you want to be an actor? It breaks your confidence. Body confidence is extremely important.” She says this tendency is ingrained in people. “But I felt that people, though not consciously, were making me feel less than what I thought of myself in my body.”
“Now I am very comfortable. I think I have come a long way. But women and teenage girls fall prey to this. It affects us. There are some who think, ‘I should not wear sleeveless because I have fat arms’. We are all beyond the body but we are only seeing ourselves in terms of the body,” she added.
In the show, she will also be discussing topics like child sexual abuse and adoption. The show airs on 92.7 Big FM.