Balan to portray writer Kamala Surayya in biopic
Actress Vidya Balan will be portraying the Indian-English writer Kamala Surayya, who questioned the hypocrisies of the society through her works, in a bilingual biopic. The Malayalam-English film will be directed by national award-winning Malayalam director Kamal. Surayya wrote in English as Kamala Das and in Malayalam under the pseudonym Madhavikutty, but later changed her name to Kamala Surayya.