India, April 25 -- Vidya Balan may be a tour-de-force now, but she's faced her share of struggles in the Hindi film industry. These include the evil that's plagued Bollywood for years - nepotism. On the podcast Unfiltered with Samdish, Vidya revealed that she was a target of nepotism, most notably when she got the Na-Real award at Filmfare Awards 2008 for her costumes in Sajid Khan's 2007 buddy comedy Heyy Babyy. (Also Read - Do Aur Do Pyaar: How Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi's film normalises infidelity, without glorifying it)

"When they told me they're going to give me the Na-Real award, I said, 'Why me? My clothes are not just my choice, right?' At that time, I was too new to have an opinion on anything. So they said, 'No, we're just doi...