Everlasting Youth Formula!

Bollywood actors are celebrated globally not only for the super-hit movies in their kitty, but also their long career graphs that can be dated quite a while back. One thing that really sets them apart is their "everlasting youth formula" i.e. how they keep themselves maintained and young-looking despite crossing their late forties. Anything and everything, from a fatherly figure to a college-going hunk, these are among the wonders of the youth formula. However, if the same formula is used repeatedly, it can have adverse effects, which means it will stop working. And quite unfortunately, a few named actors have fallen into this trap. We at BollyCurry are in a critiquing mood and have very cleverly witnessed this move. Keep calm and read on to see if your favourite fell prey to this formula.

Popularly named Mr. Perfectionist of Bollywood owing to his perfect acting, perfect looks and perfect lies? Yep, you've heard that right. 3 Idiots is undoubtedly among the most successful films Bollywood has ever witnessed. Everything about the movie seems perfect, apart from Aamir Khan as Rancho. Rancho was apparently studying engineering as a freshman student. Not very surprisingly, he looked anything but "fresh" in the role. When a 44 year old man plays a college student, my friends, that is the outcome you get! His acting might be have won one million hearts, but his looks had us twitching. And to let you in on another secret, he wasn't the only one in the film who used the "youth" formula. You, yes you smarty pants! You got the hint, didn't you.

The way she walks, the way she talks, and the way she looks, always gets people swooning. Bebo has delivered several hits, from commercial successes to critical appreciations. However, the question that pops up in everyone's mind is... What on earth happened to her in Bodyguard? Gone are the days of Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, and so are many numbers from her age. She's versatile as an actress, and can pull off any character at her best, but a college student is definitely not on that list. Playing the role of Divya in the movie Bodyguard, she looked odd, old and completely out of place in a classroom full of young students. It looks like Mrs. Saif Ali Khan didn't drink enough youth serum to fool the audience.

Hazel Crowney

She's bubbly and she's cute, but she's not a high school girl. Crowney played the role of a high school girl, Ayesha Mehra in Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar. As cliche as the story was, what irks us even more is that Crowney being in her late twenties played a high school girl. Actors playing college-going students had us going haywire, and she went a step further right into high school! Either we are losing it, or the world is nearing it's end.

The inherent Nawab of Bollywood who can easily slip into one character from another, right? A secret agent, a teacher, and of course, a carefree young man living the bachelor life. Whatever role it may be, there's one thing which always is noticed by many, and that's his growing age. It started with Aarakshan, where he played a teacher. Nawab saab may have tried to look like a young professor, but he was criticized for the same and looked rather like a senior-old prof. Cocktail, took the same youth formula further when Nawab saab played a casanova. Really? Is he even anywhere close to the age he was trying to portray? Well at least we have not come across a wrinkled man trying to act half his age.

Author: Fatima W.

Editors: Shikha A. and Sonia R.

Graphics: Shikha A.