FILMY KEEDAY

An acting career is pursued by many artists as they are interested in personifying different characters. The real test for most actors or actresses is to play different characters offered to them with precision and honesty towards their character personification. While a lot of great Bollywood actors have justified their roles by playing their character to perfection, many can’t get out the image they have established throughout their career. However, there are few actors who have been an exception in Bollywood. Whether fortunate or unfortunate, these actors play their character to sheer perfection that they were typecast into such roles for almost their entire career. The Most Typecast Actors of Bollywood The main challenge for any actor is to play different characters. However, the acting career becomes even more challenging when the actor or actress is asked to play the same character again and again throughout their career. These actors are almost never offered a different role...

For an actor, big or small, donning the right getup for the character he is portraying onscreen is as essential as his performance. In short, makeover or looks plays an important and pivotal part in enhancing the actor’s personality and subsequently his performance. Following are some of the examples where viewers got to see a complete makeover of the actor for the sake of his role. Amitabh Bachchan in ‘PAA’ R Balki, who is known for his penchant for unique subjects, depicted the emotional tale of a 12-year-old child suffering from rare genetic disorder disease called progeria in ‘PAA’. However, the real challenge for R Balki was to transform a 67-year-old actor Amitabh into a 12-year-old child, which proved to be quite a Herculean task. Services of Hollywood fame make-up artists were hired, who did an astounding job, which was there for everyone to see. Some interesting facts about the makeover: It took almost five hours for Big B to put on his makeup and two hour...