Balan goes Down Under for Equality

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan heads out to Australia to promote ‘Equality’.

Balan will take part in the Melbourne Indian Film Festival being held August 14th – 27th.  During the festival she will lend her voice towards the fight for gender equality.  

“Equality of gender, sexuality, disability, and race… the diversity that defines us, needs to be celebrated.” – said Balan.

Balan is one of the few Bollywood stars slash actors that we’ve had, who has done amazing, meaningful work, which has a lot of depth and substance, and yet been very commercially successful as well.  She portrays strong female protagonists and though she believes the intention isn’t to impose her films on anyone, she is clearly happy the underlying message is getting through.

“If a character or a story  feels compelling to me, then I want to tell that. I veer towards women who live their lives on their own terms, the way they want to…” – said Balan.