Vidya will also appear in the third part of Bhool Bhulaiyaa. She quickly agreed to be in the original 2007 movie when asked in an interview with PTI. She had seen the original Malayalam movie Manichitrathazhu, and when Priyadarshan offered her the role played by Shobhna in the original, she happily accepted. In the Hindi version, Akshay Kumar played a psychologist and Balan played Avni, who has dissociative identity disorder. Shiney Ahuja played her husband in the movie. Vidya recalled meeting Priyadarshan while he was shooting an ad with Sunny Deol in Mumbai. She mentioned being scared of Shobana in the original film, which she had watched as a child, and has not watched it again since.
When he asked me to be in the movie, I was excited and immediately said yes. I didn’t need to see a script because I had already watched the original movie and loved it. It was the quickest decision I’ve ever made for a film.
“Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3,” directed by Anees Bazmee, features Kartik Aaryan and Triptii Dimri. Bazmee also directed the second movie in the series, which starred Aaryan, Kiara Advani, and Tabu.