Actress Vidya Balan recalled a hilarious incident that occurred many years ago on the sets of Salaam-e-Ishq. The actress was very young and new to the industry when she encountered an awkward moment with Akshaye Khanna. Vidya was recently spotted at the Bollywood Hungama Style Icons Summit where she opened up about rejecting a movie that starred Akshaye Khanna. "There was a film offered to me opposite Akshaye Khanna, and for some reason, I didn’t connect with the script. But I didn’t pick up the phone and tell him that. I asked my manager to convey it to the director. And then I met Akshaye on the sets of Salaam-E-Ishq. And he fired me. He was like ‘Why didn’t you tell me you didn’t want to do the film?’," she explained.

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Vidya got so nervous that she had to ask for help from her co-star John Abraham. “ I went up to John and said, ‘Can you please save me?’ Because I was so new, I didn’t want any confrontation. I didn’t want to hurt anyone or make anyone feel bad, or just feel like I was refusing a film with them. But of course, he was only pulling my leg. I later realised,” the actress recalled. Talking about acknowledging the hard work that goes into making a film, the dynamic actress said, " Nobody likes to hear 'no' and I understand that now more than ever. I am not a rude person, I say it like it is, but I value the work that goes behind into creating a script."

 
 
 
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One of the most talented and versatile actresses of Bollywood, Vidya Balan, was last seen in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, opposite Kartik Aaryan, Madhuri Dixit, and Triptii Dimri. The horror-comedy film was released on Diwali last year. It became a superhit at the box office charts. She also starred in the rom-com Do Aur Do Pyaar, alongside Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D'Cruz and Sendhil Ramamurthy.