Vidya Balan is learning Telugu

New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- Actor Vidya Balan, who is currently in Hyderabad shooting for Balaji's The Dirty Picture, has started to learn the local dialect, being the language aficionado that she is. Already fluent in Malayalam, Tamil, English, Hindi, Bengali and Marathi, Balan, 33, has now taken to learning Telugu.
"During the shoot in Hyderabad, Vidya encourages people to speak to her in Telugu so that she learns it and can practice it," says a source.