# Vidya Balan filmography

Indian actress Vidya Balan made her acting debut in 1995 with the sitcom Hum Paanch, following which she made several unsuccessful attempts at a film career. Vidya then appeared in music videos for Euphoria, Pankaj Udhas, and Shubha Mudgal all directed by Pradeep Sarkar. She had her first film release with a leading role in Goutam Halder's Bengali film Bhalo Theko (2003). In 2005, she starred in Sarkar's Parineeta, an adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), a successful comedy sequel, saw her play a radio jockey opposite Sanjay Dutt.
Vidya played a variety of roles in 2007, including a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis in Mani Ratnam's drama Guru, a single mother in the comedy Heyy Babyy, and a dissociative identity disorder patient in the thriller Bhool Bhulaiyaa. All three films were commercially successful and established her as a leading lady. This was followed by two commercial failures in 2008. From 2009 to 2012, Vidya starred in five consecutive films that garnered her critical and commercial success. She played the mother of a child afflicted with progeria in Paa (2009), a seductive widow in Ishqiya (2010), and the real-life character of Sabrina Lal in No One Killed Jessica (2011). For portraying the actress Silk in the biopic The Dirty Picture, Vidya won the National Film Award for Best Actress. She next played a pregnant woman seeking revenge in the thriller Kahaani (2012), directed by Sujoy Ghosh. She was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her roles in Paa, The Dirty Picture, and Kahaani, and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for Ishqiya.
Vidya failed to replicate this success in the next few years. This changed in 2017 when she played a radio jockey in Tumhari Sulu, for which she won another Best Actress Award at Filmfare. She also starred in the top-grossing ensemble drama Mission Mangal (2019). She then starred in the Amazon Prime Video streaming films Shakuntala Devi (2020), Sherni (2021), and Jalsa (2022), winning another Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for playing an Indian Forest Service officer in Sherni. Her highest-grossing release came with the comedy horror sequel Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 (2024).

## Films

Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
* All films are in Hindi unless otherwise noted.
Vidya Balan filmography :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Bhalo Theko | Anandi | Bengali film |
| 2005 | Parineeta | Lalita | |
| 2006 | Lage Raho Munna Bhai | Jhanvi Sahni | |
| 2007 | Guru | Meenakshi "Meenu" Gupta Saxena | |
| 2007 | Salaam-e-Ishq | Tehzeeb Hussain Raina | |
| 2007 | Eklavya: The Royal Guard | Rajjo Singh | |
| 2007 | Heyy Babyy | Isha B. Sahni | |
| 2007 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa | Avni Chaturvedi / Manjulika | |
| 2007 | Om Shanti Om | Herself | Special appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi" |
| 2008 | Halla Bol | Sneha Khan | |
| 2008 | Kismat Konnection | Priya Saluja | |
| 2009 | Paa | Dr. Vidya | |
| 2010 | Ishqiya | Krishna Verma | |
| 2011 | No One Killed Jessica | Sabrina Lal | |
| 2011 | Urumi | Makkom / Bhoomi | Malayalam film |
| 2011 | Thank You | Divya Khurana | Cameo |
| 2011 | Dum Maaro Dum | Mrs. Kamath | Cameo |
| 2011 | The Dirty Picture | Reshma (Silk) | |
| 2012 | Kahaani | Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi | |
| 2012 | Ferrari Ki Sawaari | Unnamed | Special appearance in song "Mala Jau De" |
| 2013 | Bombay Talkies | Herself | Special appearance in song "Apna Bombay Talkies" |
| 2013 | Ghanchakkar | Neetu Athray | |
| 2013 | Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! | Unnamed | Cameo |
| 2013 | Mahabharat | Draupadi (voice) | Animated film |
| 2014 | Shaadi Ke Side Effects | Trisha Mallik | |
| 2014 | Bobby Jasoos | Bilkis "Bobby" Ahmed | |
| 2015 | Hamari Adhuri Kahani | Vasudha Prasad | |
| 2016 | Te3n | Sarita Sarkar | |
| 2016 | Ekk Albela | Geeta Bali | Marathi film; special appearance |
| 2016 | Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh | Vidya Sinha / Durga Rani Singh | |
| 2017 | Begum Jaan | Begum Jaan | |
| 2017 | Tumhari Sulu | Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey | |
| 2018 | Amoli | Narrator | Documentary; English version |
| 2019 | NTR: Kathanayakudu | Basavatarakam | Telugu film |
| 2019 | NTR: Mahanayakudu | Basavatarakam | Telugu film |
| 2019 | Nerkonda Paarvai | Kalyani Bharath | Tamil film; special appearance |
| 2019 | Mission Mangal | Tara Shinde | |
| 2020 | Natkhat | Surekha | Short film; also producer |
| 2020 | Shakuntala Devi | Shakuntala Devi | |
| 2021 | Sherni | Vidya Vincent | |
| 2022 | Jalsa | Maya Menon | |
| 2023 | Neeyat | Mira Rao | |
| 2024 | Do Aur Do Pyaar | Kavya Ganeshan | |
| 2024 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 | Mallika / Manjulika | |

## Television

Vidya Balan in TV Series :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 1995 | Hum Paanch | Radhika Mathur | | |
| 2014 | No More Kamzor | Host | TV special | |

## Music videos

Vidya Balan in music videos :
| Year | Title | Role | Performer(s) | Ref(s) |
| 2002 | "Aana Meri Gully" | Bengali bride | Euphoria | [80] [81] [82] |
| 2002 | "Main Nashe Mein Hoon" | Bengali girl | Pankaj Udhas | [80] [83] |
| 2003 | "Kisson Ki Chadar" | Unknown | Shubha Mudgal | [80] [84] |
| 2011 | "Jaani Na" | Bengali wife | Chandrabindoo | |