When Sujoy Ghosh saved Vidya Balan's life...

Mumbai: Sujoy Ghosh saved the actress at the nick of time as she almost fell onto the Metro rail tracks in Kolkata while they shot for 'Kahaani'.

Vidya Balan almost fell on the tracks while shooting for her upcoming release, 'Kahaani' at a Kolkata metro station. Fortunately, the director Sujoy Ghosh came to her rescue and saved her from falling onto the tracks.

Recalling the incident Ghosh says, "When we were shooting we had security guards across the platform. It went pitch perfect, not a single thing out of place.

An entirely female-centric film, Kahaani shows a pregnant Vidya Balan in search of her husband in Kolkata.
The search for her husband takes Vidya from London to Kolkata.
The trailer of Kahaani was released on January 5, 2012.
Seven months pregnant and alone in a festive city, she begins a relentless search for her husband.
With nothing to rely on except fragments of her memory of him the search seems in vain.
Everyone tries to convince Vidya that her husband does not exist.
She realises that nothing is as it seems in the city.
Trapped in a mesh of lies, she is determined to unravel the mystery for the sake of her unborn child.
Kahaani will hit the screens on March 9, 2012.
The film is directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
This is Vidya's next in a long list of women-oriented films.
Fresh after the success of her hugely successful Dirty Picture, Vidya is riding a wave of acclaim for her portrayal of Silk Smitha.
Actor Parambrata plays the role of a police officer in the film.
The story of Kahaani has been written by Advaita Kala and Sujoy Ghosh.
Dhaval Jayantilal Gada and Sameer Suresh Nair are the co-producers of the film.
A distraught Vidya plays the role of Vidya Bagchi.
The city's landscape is caught in fine spendour as it prepares for the Durga Puja festival.
The film stars Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chattopadhyay and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Vishal and Shekhar have composed the music for the film.
Vidya's favourite designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee has draped her again in the film.
No One Killed Jessica, Dirty Picture and Paa all had Vidya playing strong roles.
Vidya is seen heavily pregnant in this film.
Vidya made her movie debut with the Bengali film Bhalo Theko in 2003.
She made her Hindi film debut with Parineeta in 2005.
Her first commercial success with Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
Vidya also appeared in Guru, Heyy Babyy and Bhool Bhulaiyaa.
In the film 'Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love' Vidya was praised for her portrayal of Tehzeeb Raina, a woman who loses her memory.
The city's lanes and bylanes come alive in the film.
Her film 'Eklavya: The Royal Guard' was selected as India's official entry to the Oscars for the 80th Academy Awards.
In 2009, Balan played the role of Vidya, a young independent gynecologist who is also a single-mother struggling with her 12-year-old son's Progeria syndrome, in Paa.
Known for taking up challenging roles, she played a woman suffering from Multiple Sclerosis in Mani Ratnam's Guru.
She won a Filmfare Award for Best Actress and a Star Screen Award for Best Actress for Paa.
The Durga idol is seen in this still.
The film is a suspense thriller and is sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
Vidya was recently honoured with a retrospective of her work by Australia's Indian film festival, Bollywood & Beyond.
Her makeup in the film accentuates the Bengali look.

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$When Sujoy Ghosh saved Vidya Balan\'s life...$

While shooting for Sujoy Ghosh\'s \'Kahaani\', the actress was saved to life by the the director from falling onto the tracks.

While we were paying attention, amidst all this, the only person we forgot was Vidya (laughs). But she is an adult. She is supposed to take care of herself. There was a scene where she was running backwards on the platform.

She bumped against a weighing machine. She tripped and was about to fall onto the tracks. Seeing that she was about to fall, we immediately rushed to her. When she acts, she acts and forgets everything else."

Ghosh says, "There was nothing heroic about it. Since I was behind the camera I could see what was going to happen. I just had the quick sight to rush and save her from falling."

So did the incident cause an interruption? The director explains, "Balan is like 'Oh cool I got saved, lets get back on the job.'"

"You take a lot of precautions for other people but you take your own folk for granted. We took the precaution for everybody else. We just forgot Balan," he adds.

He signs off saying, 'Kahani' was shot in real time. We shot during Durga Puja. When you are shooting in real time, you shoot with real people who don't know what's going on. One of our challenges was to be on our best behaviour."