Vidya Balan speaks

You know, I have the greatest regard for Shahid, just like I have for Sanjay Dutt because when he is on a set, whatever he is going through outside, doesn't affect him. He is true to the moment. We were doing Lage Raho Munnabhai which is, again, such a positive happy film and when he was on the sets, nothing bothered him. When Raju said Action he was transported to another place. Shahid is like that. A lot of us didn't know what was happening and full credit to Shahid for that. None of us were checking the internet to see what was happening in Mumbai or anything, so maybe a stray call came by . . . Strangely, it was on the second last day of the shoot that Aziz Uncle got to know what Shahid was going through. It's so weird that people went around saying how he was dealing with it when a whole lot of us there didn't even know what he was going through! Hats off to the guy for that! He dealt with it fabulously and I think he is a great professional. I am choosing to elaborate because these are things you notice and learn from and you say, 'Wow, here is a person with such integrity, a person with such credibility!' They don't let anything affect themselves!' CineBlitz - July 2008