Vidya shocks you by saying she's not quite the glam-doll in Salaam-e-Ishq. "There's no hidden agenda to my new look. It's very normal city girl's look, with no pouting and preening. I wanted to move away from the comfort of the known.
You know all actors have a comfort zone. And it's the easiest thing in the world to remain there. After my first film Parineeta I didn't want to be slotted in the sari-clad image. Post-Munnabhai a lot of the fears about whether I could carry off a more modern look, were put to rest. But I need to go further."
Vidya admits she's more comfortable with her clothes in Munnabhai and Salaam-e-Ishq than in Parineeta. "I don't normally dress like that. Of course I love the sari. And in fact I get to dress up elaborately in Indian clothes and jewels in Priyadarshan's Chandramukhi. I haven't done that kind of dressing-up before."
She however dismisses the belief that she's ultra-glamorous in Salaam-e-Ishq. "That's only a myth. I dress very normally in the film. Again in Raj Kumar Santoshi's Halla Bol I play a very real woman. I don't contest the fact that filmmakers see me in realistic roles.
But if tomorrow I get to play someone ultra-glamorous, why not? But not the way it's defined in our films. Here in our films glamour is often synonymous with lack of substance."