Saturday, 12th July 2014, 04:15 PM IST

Powerhouse actress Vidya Balan is a lucky lady indeed. In just a few months, the actress has been offered as many as six biopics on different women of our country.

 

A source close to the actress revealed, “Vidya has received calls from three filmmakers over the past one week, offering her a biopic each. If Leena Yadav wants to make one on 'Tragedy Queen' Meena Kumari, Soham Shah is toying with the idea of bringing the first woman IPS officer, Kiran Bedi, to the screen.Yet another senior writer has approached Vidya to play the acclaimed singer, Padma Bhushan Begum Akhtar.”

 

Vidya is obviously amused by this flattery. A while ago, Ananth Narayan Mahadevan had admitted that Vidya was his first choice to play India’s first lady doctor Rakmabai. Even south filmmakers like Kamal, want Vidya to play the protagonist in his ambitious film on poet Kamala Das. That’s not all, Rajiv Menon approached her to star in a film on the renowned Carnatic vocalist, Bharat Ratna Subbulakshmi.

 

With so many offers of biopics on these women of substance, Vidya must surely be spoilt for choice. But the source informed, “She is not yet considering any of them for the moment. It's early days yet. But the one on M S Subbulakshmi excites her the most.”

 

However, Vidya isn’t sure if she wants to go ahead with either. She said, “As humbling as it is to be offered a biopic, I am not sure if I want to be known as an actor with a monopoly on the genre.”