Vidya Balan

After a stellar 2012, Vidya Balan had a less than exciting year at the box office. Ghanchakkar, which released in June, failed to sizzle. Critics though praised her performance, with Rajeev Masand saying, 'Vidya Balan offers a particularly uninhibited performance as the garrulous, fashion-disaster of a housewife; the kind of part few leading ladies would venture near, or competently pull off.'
Fast Fact: ?In August she and Anna Hazare served as the grand marshal of the India Day Parade held in New York.