Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan and more: 5 times Ashutosh Gowariker presented our favourite stars in a never seen before avatar

By Ganesh Aaglave
| Updated: February 15 2021, 09:31 AM IST

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Happy Birthday Ashutosh Gowariker — Image credit: Instagram

Happy Birthday Ashutosh Gowariker

Popular filmmaker and actor, Ashutosh Gowariker, is celebrating his 57th birthday today. While the actor started his career as an actor with Aamir Khan's Holi and later featured in films like Naam, Chamatkar and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, he shifted his focus to direction and made his first film, Pehla Nasha, which starred Deepak Tijori, Pooja Bhatt, Raveena Tandon and Paresh Rawal in noted. Though Ashutosh garnered fame and popularity for Aamir Khan's Lagaan, which made it to the top 5 nominations in Oscars for the Best International film. In his career of filmmaking, Ashutosh often experimented with his film and actors and made superstars get out of their comfort zone by giving them some interesting and unique portrayals. Well, we have shortlisted some of them and here are they...

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Aamir Khan in Lagaan — Image credit: Instagram

Aamir Khan in Lagaan

In this epic musical sports drama, Aamir Khan portrayed the character of a farmer named Bhuvan. Well, the actor made great effort to get into character for the film and also learnt Avadhi dialect for it. Well, the actor bagged Filmfare Best Actor award for his performance.

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Shah Rukh Khan in Swades — Image credit: Instagram

Shah Rukh Khan in Swades

Shah Rukh Khan, who is known for playing romantic characters, portrayed the role of a project manager on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) program at NASA, named Mohan Bhargava. Well, this character was extremely from what SRK has been played for the long time. But this change got acceptance from the audience and also got his Filmfare Best Actor award.

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Hrithik Roshan in Jodhaa Akbar — Image credit: Instagram

Hrithik Roshan in Jodhaa Akbar

The Greek god of Bollywood turned into a Mughal Emperor Mohammad Jalaluddin Akbar for Ashutosh Gowariker's epic historical drama. While no one could have thought that HR would nail this role but his performance made us say 'wow' and the maximum credit for that should definitely go to the director of the film.

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Aishwarya Rai in Jodhaa Akbar — Image credit: Instagram

Aishwarya Rai in Jodhaa Akbar

Just like Hrithik, Aishwarya surprised us with her performance as Rajkumari Jodhaa Bai, where she personified elegance and subtlety.

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Priyanka Chopra in What's Your Rashee? — Image credit: Instagram

Priyanka Chopra in What's Your Rashee?

Well, not one or two, Piggy Chops played 12 different characters in What's Your Rashee? and make sure every character looks distinct from another.

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Deepika Padukone in Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey — Image credit: Instagram

Deepika Padukone in Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey

The fashionista went completely deglam for her character of Kalpana Datta, which was quite a fresh change for her.