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Vidya Balan is a Tamilian of Iyer community who hails from Kerala. She comes from a middle-class family from Palghat, on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. She did her schooling from St. Antony's School and later on joined St Xavier's College, Mumbai from where she graduated in sociology. When she was doing her MA from Mumbai University, she was offered a role in a Malayalam film titled Chakram with Mohanlal , one of Vidya’s favorite actors. However, the project was shelved mid-way and Vidya had to wait for few more years to make her filmy debut. She made her debut as a model in a Surf Excel advertisement in 1998. She has acted in an array of commercial films, most of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar . A couple of months later, she featured in three music videos (again directed by Sarkar) for ‘Euphoria’, Shubha Mudgal and Pankaj Udhas . Image via Wikipedia Vidya also acted in Ashok Pandit’s TV serial Hanste Khelte and Ektaa Kapoor's Hum Paanch. She has acted in Be...