Vidya Malvade says self-pity is bad

Actress Vidya Malvade and her onscreen avatar Vidya Sharma in Chak De! India are both great survivors Actress Vidya Malvade and her onscreen avatar Vidya Sharma in Chak De! India are both great survivors Actress Vidya Malvade and her onscreen avatar Vidya Sharma in Chak De! India are both great survivors Actress Vidya Malvade and her onscreen avatar Vidya Sharma in Chak De! India are both great survivors.
There is something that’s common between the real and reel life emotions of Vidya Malvade, who plays Vidya Sharma, the captain of the women’s hockey team in Chak De!India.
For those not in the loop, this model-turned-actor lost her husband in an aircrash in 2001 just when things in the glamour world had started looking up for her. For six months after the accident, she had hoped for a miracle to happen so that her hubby would return alive. Now when her phone hasn’t stopped ringing ever since Chak De! turned into a huge success, she looks happy. Sometimes, her eyes stray to the picture of her husband that she uses as a bookmark.
Numerous modelling assignments and a faded-into-oblivion debut in Inteha later, Vidya is back in the limelight rubbing shoulders, as it were, with Shah Rukh Khan.

“I was walking the ramp when someone exclaimed about how I had saved the last goal in the film. Many have actually seen this as a game rather than a film. I got a call from the captain of the Indian rugby team too!” she recalls.
The most unexpected message came from Nana Patekar, who had called her up on the day of the film’s release. “He said he had sourced my number and called up to congratulate me,” she says.
In spite of so much adulation, Vidya still remains grounded.

“People ask me whether I’ve arrived. But arrival and departure happens every Friday in tinsel town. There are times when I meet people who speak nicely to me and then go on to cast someone else for the role. But then, I can’t languish in self-pity,” she insists.
But deep within, one can’t miss how much Vidya misses the presence of the man who had once walked her down the altar.
Her voice softens as she says: “He used to call me Lady in Red. I only murmur and say: Thank you for looking after me from above”.

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