During her early days in tinsel town B'Town star
Vidya Balan,was roped in as the female lead in the Malayalam film Chakram, opposite
Mohanlal and was subsequently signed on for twelve other Malayalam language films. However, due to production difficulties, the movie was shelved.The postponement of a film starring Mohanlal was an unheard of occurrence in Malayalam cinema and film producers blamed her for bringing "bad luck" to the project; labelled her as a "jinx" and replaced her in all the films.