Celebrities do all kinds of things to deal with age-based crises: they buy stuff like mansions on lakes in Europe. Or massive handbags that could comfortably fit several babies from sub-Saharan Africa. Sometimes they act out and get their hair cut in funny ways. Or they may embark on a journey of self-actualization. Actors, I suspect, mostly deal with this crisis by acting half their age in movies. I'm still haunted by images of a portly 30 year old
Rishi Kapoor tucking a book under his arm and attending classes in a college.
In this age of Bollywood stars,
Govinda, 50, acted in a movie last year called
Naughty @ 40. He was not nominated for any awards. A year before that
Priyanka Chopra, then 28, played a college hottie in
Pyaar Impossible. Audiences stayed away and critics rolled their eyes.
Long ago on the Drift, we cataloged the age of Bollywood stars. That post badly needs updating. For one, all the actors have grown older! But some have fallen off the list - mostly because they acted in one flop too many or in the case of women, because they got married. Some hot new stars (
Prateik Babbar,
Sonakshi Sinha) have been added to the list. Some new success stories (
Randeep Hooda,
Ayushmann Khurrana,
Kajal Agarwal,
Ileana D'cruz,
Yami Gautam) were penciled in. There have been some comebacks (
Sridevi). I added important actors I overlooked in the last round (
Paresh Rawal,
Boman Irani,
Irrfan Khan,
Chitrangada Singh,
Kalki Koechlin). For good measure and for no particular reason, I threw in names like
Sunny Leone and
Esha Gupta.
I restricted this list to actors who have played the lead in at least one major recent production and had some measure of fame. I racked my brain to think of as many as I could to include on this list. I may have missed some - feel free to pull me up for that.
FIRST, THE MEN
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Amitabh Bachchan
October 11, 1942
70
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Naseeruddin Shah
July 20, 1950
62
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Paresh Rawal
May 30, 1950
62
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Govinda
December 21, 1958
53
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Sanjay Dutt
July 2, 1959
53
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Boman Irani
December 2, 1959
52
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Anil Kapoor
December 24, 1959
52
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Irrfan Khan
November 30, 1962
49
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Aamir Khan
March 14, 1965
47
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Shahrukh Khan
November 2, 1965
46
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Salman Khan
December 27, 1965
46
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Ajay Devgn
April 2, 1967
45
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Akshay Kumar
September 9, 1967
45
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Saif Ali Khan
August 16, 1970
42
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Madhavan
June 1, 1970
42
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John Abraham
December 17, 1972
39
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Arjun Rampal
November 26, 1972
39
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Hrithik Roshan
January 10, 1974
38
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Farhan Akhtar
January 9, 1974
38
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Akshaye Khanna
March 28, 1975
37
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Abhay Deol
March 15, 1976
36
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Abhishek Bachchan
February 5, 1976
36
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Vivek Oberoi
September 3, 1976
36
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Tusshar Kapoor
June 21, 1976
36
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Randeep Hooda
August 20, 1976
36
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Shreyas Talpade
January 27, 1976
36
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Emraan Hashmi
March 24, 1979
33
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Riteish Deshmukh
December 17, 1978
33
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Sharman Joshi
March 17, 1979
33
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Ali Zafar
May 18, 1980
32
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Shahid Kapoor
February 25, 1981
31
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Neil Nitin Mukesh
January 15, 1982
30
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Ranbir Kapoor
September 28, 1982
30
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Imraan Khan
January 13, 1983
29
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Ayushmann Khurrana
September 14, 1984
28
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Prateik Babbar
November 28, 1986
25
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NEXT, THE WOMEN
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Sridevi
August 13, 1963
49
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Madhuri Dixit
May 15, 1967
45
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Tabu
November 4, 1970
41
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Malaika Arora
August 23, 1973
39
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Aishwarya Rai
November 1, 1973
38
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Kajol
August 5, 1974
38
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Preity Zinta
January 31, 1975
37
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Chitrangada Singh
March 28, 1976
36
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Kareena Kapoor
September 21, 1977
35
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Rani Mukherjee
March 21, 1978
34
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Vidya Balan
January 1, 1978
34
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Lara Dutta
April 16, 1978
34
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Bipasha Basu
January 7, 1979
33
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Soha Ali Khan
October 4, 1978
33
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Konkana Sen Sharma
December 3, 1979
32
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Nargis Fakhri
October 20, 1979
32
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Amrita Rao
June 17, 1981
31
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Sunny Leone
May 13, 1981
31
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Mallika Sherwat
October 24, 1981
30
Although most people think she is at least 35-36!
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Priyanka Chopra
July 18, 1982
30
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Dia Mirza
December 9, 1981
30
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Kalki Koechlin
January 9, 1983
29
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Katrina Kaif
July 16, 1984
28
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Sonam Kapoor
June 9, 1985
27
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Kajal Agarwal
June 19, 1985
27
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Jacqueline Fernandez
June 2, 1985
27
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Asin
October 26, 1985
26
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Deepika Padukone
January 5, 1986
26
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Shruti Haasan
January 28, 1986
26
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Kangana Ranaut
March 23, 1987
25
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Genelia D'Souza
August 5, 1987
25
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Sonakshi Sinha
June 2, 1987
25
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Yami Gautam
November 28, 1986
25
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Ileana D'cruz
November 1, 1987
24
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Anushka Sharma
May 1, 1988
24
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Parineeti Chopra
May 12, 1988
24
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Prachi Desai
September 12, 1988
24
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Esha Gupta
November 28, 1988
23
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Amy Jackson
January 31, 1991
21
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2 comments:
Wow..where to start? First off Saif is born in 1968 not 1970 so he is 45 now. Kareena is born in 1975. Her wiki used to say 1977 and now it's 1980.Sonakshi bears a very strong resemblance to Reena Roy and I hear she was born in 1982so she is now 31.Madhuri is born in 1961 and Sridevi is not born in 1963-just look at her debut Tamil film in 1967, does she look like she is 4 years old there?Nope more like 12 or 13.
juhi chawla is missing guys
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