Buying a dream home is all about ‘kismet connection’, says Bollywood actor Vidya Balan

After looking at ‘25 houses, we could not decide’ on buying one and so ‘we took one on rent,’ Vidya Balan said at the 22nd Credai-NATCON event held in SydneyBollywood actor Vidya Balan believes that ‘ghar is all about kismet’,

it’s ‘kismet connection’ that helps you zero in on the house of your dreams.“You walk into a house and you know it’s yours,” Balan told an audience of 1,100 real estate developers at the 22nd Credai Natcon event held in Sydney.She recollected that she had gone house-hunting with her mother some 15 years back. “I wanted to live in Bandra or Juhu” as it was closer to work and going all the way up to Chembur took a lot of time to travel “back and forth.”

“We looked at various places, but there was one particular house we liked, but it was far above our budget,” said Balan, who was born and brought up in Mumbai but has roots in Palghat, Kerala.

When her mother found out from the property dealer that only one flat was available and that it was the “last flat”, she asked her to work “towards paying the EMI" and it happened“I actually bought the house and that is why I say it is a kismet connection. When I walked into the house, it felt like my home,”

she told the audience.Currently, the actor and her husband reside in (Vidya and her husband Siddharth Roy Kapur) a rented house.

“We looked around 25 houses but could not agree on any house. And all my life I have lived in my own house with my parents. This is a rented house and I was always like I don’t want to stay in a rented house. We loved the house (the rented one). After looking at 25 houses, we came back here as we liked it but decided to take it up on rent. Our landlord is happy as he is earning a fat cheque,”

the actor, whose film Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 is expected to be released soon, said.Asked what she would have named her own real estate firm, in case she would have started one, she said it would be known as ‘Mission Mangal’.

She also revealed that she is very particular about cleanliness. “I often end up cleaning the surface over and over again. Mujhe dust se nafrat hai. I am house proud and I do a lot of housework,” she said.

She also said that she does not like wearing shoes and loves to walk bare feet.

Bungee jumping is on her bucket list and she would love to work with Hollywood actor George Clooney.