Which film actually saved Akshay Kumar's career after his 14 consecutive flops?

 This was an amazing movie - Jaanwar. The movie nearly saved Akshay Kumar’s struggling career. Jaanwar was released in 1999 and it was directed by Suneel Darshan. Akshay’s performance, dialouge delivery and even getup was different from his run of mill similar movies. A fact - Suneel Darshan revealed in an interview that the powerful protagonist role played by Akshay was initially written with keeping Sunny Deol in mind.

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Jaanwar’s sucess had many reasons - chartbuster songs - “tujko naa dekhun too” , “Mausam ki trah”, “Mera yaar dildaar”. Akshay’s bond shown with his adopted son was the prime emotional arc of the story. Parallely, it had other tracks of Karishma and Akshay's earlier love story and later track Shilpa’s love for son - additionally Akshay’s struggle against law and followed by love changing him from movie’s title “Jaanwar” to a great human. Akshay’s role as a gangster was named Baadshah in the 1st half and more powerful role of Babu Lohar in the 2nd half.

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The movie had a famous dialogue “yeh Babu Lohar ka haath hain”. Despite having Akshay, Karishma, Shilpa, Jaanwar had a powerful supporting cast - Ashutosh Rana, Shakti Kapoor, Johny Lever, Mohnish Behl, Ashish Vidyarthi. There is an amazing emotional scene in the movie - of Ashish Vidyarthi with Akshay’s son.

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Ashish played a police officer who gets obsessed with Akshay’s character to arrest him. Finally after a decade of consistent search for Akshay which results him in not getting promotion, he arrives to catch Akshay ( who was earlier a criminal ) - Ashish’s character realizes that Akshay has been a changed man when he converses with Akshay’s son and gets surprised to listen that Akshay or Babu Lohar wants his son to become like Ashish Vidyarthi’ honest character/policeman. While earlier Akshay and Ashish were obvious rivals. He eventuslly drops the idea to arrest Akshay. A must watch scene.

Please watch this movie and you will enjoy and even it will bring some tears too. An action movie with right emotions can be great sequel with good nostalgia.

Jai Hind!

Who are some Kollywood actors who ruined their careers overnight?

 

Heera Rajagopal was going places

She had everything perfect

She had the South Indian Look , the polished urban presence of a College Girl and she looked GOOD in Western Clothes - something Roja and Meena and Kanaga struggled to do

So what ruined her career?

Two things - Sathi Leelavati & Ajith

All she had to do was say NO to the role of PRIYA - a Young Woman becoming Mistress of a Married Man , seduded by his promises of marriage

A BOLD ROLE even by 2026 standards

Career Suicide for 1995 standards

That was that!!!!

From that moment every role she was offered was what was called Matter Roles

The Boss who tries to seduce the Employee in Kadhal Kottai

The Bold woman with Live in ambitions

All her heroine offers evaporated

Then Ajith her boyfriend whom she introduced to multiple directors and producers during her peak (1993–1995) even getting him his big break in Aasai - dumped her without a seconds notice

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Mic Mohan was another

Naive and Innocent - he suffered from an Autoimmune Disease for which treatment in 1989 was available only in Germany

This led to a published story about HOW A ROMANTIC HERO had AIDS

Back then AIDS was seen as terrifying and many believed it was spread by germs or touch

So Mohan was openly boycotted for a long time

By the time he could prove the allegations were false, too much time had passed and he was no longer attractive as a hero

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Devayani jumped the fence at 4 AM and escaped to get married with Rajakumaran 😁

This led to all her shoots cancelled after marriage and over 13 films lost

She was stuck doing supporting roles as wife of Jayaram in Paarai and Prakash Raj in Giri and in a scene with Kamal in Panchathintaram (Hilarious though)

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NSK and MK Thyaraja Bhagavathar both got mixed up in an infamous muder case and spent 5–6 years in courts before they were ultimately acquitted (Or sentence was revoked on appeal - Lakshmikantan murder case i think)

Once the biggest names in business - they were completely boycotted and ended up virtually broke

Others include

• Bobby Simha - after various ego incidents
• Perarasu - after the Mallika incident

Which Bollywood actress had a very short career span and then disappeared?

 A lot of names have already been mentioned in other answers. So, I will try to add a few more names which have been missed.

Gracy Singh : The graceful and beautiful actress from Lagaan, seems you have disappeared. She acted in few more movies but she is not seen making any presence on-screen since quite a few years.

Anita Raj : She did good nunber of movies and was popular too but she disappeared after those movies. She made a comeback on small screen.

Amrita Arora : Not that she had amazing acting skills or anything but she tried for few years but now she has almost disappeared.

Koena Mitra : TThere was a phase when her presence could be felt very much on-screen. But, gradually she disappeared. She had acted in movies like Apna Sapna Money Money.

Payal Rohtagi : She had made numerous controversial statements and I believe she still does that. However, she seems to have disappeared from the big screen.

Yukta Mukhee : The beautiful actress had started in few movies but she could not make it big.

Diana Hayden : Another beautiful lady who had no luck in Bollywood and disappeared from Bollywood.

Trisha Krishnan : She is a popular name in the south movie industry bit disappeared from Bollywood after doing Khatta Meetha.

Kajal Agarwal : Another popular name from south movie industry who appeared in the Hindi movie Singham and then disappeared.

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What is the career story of the Kannada actress Aditi Prabhudeva?

Aditi prabhudeva is one of the most beautiful looking actress and model in Kannada Film industry and also in various soap operas or Kannada serials.

She debuted on silver screen in 2017 in a Kannada language movie. She won an award for movie Ranganayaki and shared screen with the most versatile Kannada actor legend Navarasa Nayaka Jaggesh in Tothapuri chapter 1 and it's sequel chapter 2 which is the best movie so far in recent times in Kannada Film industry.

What led to the sudden downfall of Govinda's career after the 90s?

Govinda gradually lost his talent and loved ones.

Mother : Govinda often credits his mother Nirmala Devi for his superb success.

Nirmala Devi was a renowned classical singer and a Radio artiste (grade 1)

But, Govinda , once super rich, never did anything to commemorate her artistic talent

There is no scholarship , award , mural or event to honor this gifted singer.

Family : Govinda took care of his extended family (nearly 40 family members)

He always recommended his mediocre kith and kin to film makers and financiers.

It hardly did him any good as film makers started distancing themselves from him.

Fame : Well, he got entrapped by his star status.

He kept on arriving late on film sets and acted in average or below average movies.

Naturally, these flop movies gradually tainted his career.

Future : He did not hone his acting skills..

He never learnt proper English for international movies.

He couldn’t foresee his professional future in era of digital cinema.

Well, he didn’t chose good character roles.

Perhaps, he lost proverbial race to his professional rivals.

Feud : Unknown to many , his family life was in a mess

His wife didn’t appreciate his closeness to female actors..

It did impact his professional life.

Fact : All said and done , Govinda , a gifted actor- dancer, became victim of fragile “stardom.”

Note : Hopefully, he will recover from his professional and personal crisis.

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What are some of the biggest career mistakes of Bollywood stars?

Vinod Khanna , Indian actor, renounced everything and became a monk.

Successful : Vinod Khanna was a successful Indian actor

He was not only popular but also super rich.

This dashing actor had a happy family with two kids.

Every thing was going well in his life.

Sadness : But, deaths of his family members impacted him.

It lost his emotional balance for a while.

He tried to find answers to life problems.

Spiritual : A chance meeting with Acharya Rajneesh in 1982 changed his life.

He grew close to him and decided to leave everything- family, career and so on.

He shifted to Pune and then Oregon (USA) against advice of his loved ones and friends.

Vinod Khanna became Swami Vinod Bharti.

He nearly lived like a modern monk for five years.

Strange: After unsavory incidents in Oregon; Vinod Khanna decided to return home.

To his dismay , few film makers wanted to take a risk with him.

He found a number of actors had filled professional vacuum left by him.

His wife and children didn’t want to live with him.

Second : He had to start everything from scratch.

He starred in good movies like Lekin, Insaaf, Dayavan, Chandni and Satyamev Jayate

He remarried and had a loving family.

He went on to have a successful political career (Union Cabinet Minister)

Facts : Film journalists claim that Vinod Khanna was all set to be a superstar before his renunciation.

His sons Rahul and Akshaye Khanna, known actors, still don’t appreciate his sudden renunciation.

His professional break acted as a blessing for many actors.

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What are some of the biggest career mistakes of Bollywood stars?

 Imagine being at the absolute peak of your career, people are going crazy just to get a glimpse of you & you choose that exact moment to hit pause and walk into politics.

Amitabh Bachchan entered politics in 1984 & after that he significantly reduced the number of films he was doing. As a result, scripts like Mr India and Khalnayak which were originally written for him went to Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt

Politics robbed Amitabh of what could have been an even longer peak run, this was an era where audiences were so invested in him that even a low grade macho film like Mard was guaranteed a blockbuster simply by having his face on the poster

His 1988 comeback via Shahenshah was met with genuine madness from audiences, full houses at opening, good collections, but the film was still labeled an underperformer because the bar for Bachchan was simply on another level.

After 1984, Bachchan was barely releasing anything, one film here, a year's gap there.

Mard, Aakhree Raasta, Shahenshah, Ajooba, Toofaan, Mai Azaad hoo, that was basically it across 5 years. And these happened to be his peak years. More output during this period and his stardom would have had a much longer shelf life…

In what ways did Aishwarya Rai's strategic career choices, like her marriage into a prominent Bollywood family, contribute to her enduring success?

 Aishwarya Rai’s success has next to nothing to do with her marriage with Abhishek Bachchan. Infact I would suggest the opposite. Her stardom was adversely effected because of her marriage. In fact even Abhishek Bachchan’s career dwindled after marriage.

Aishwarya Rai was a popular model, winner of Miss World pageant and then transitioned into cinema with National award winning film Iruvar. She has since then achieved success with films like Ham Dil De Chuke Sanam, Taal, Devdas, Mohabbatein, Dhoom 2 etc. She also won Filmfare awards for HDDCS and Devdas. Not to forget she did Hollywood and crossover films like Bride and Prejudice, The Ministry of Spice etc. None of this was related to Bachchan family. In fact with Abhishek she did utter flops like Dhai Akshar Prem ke, Kuch na Kaho, Umrao Jaan etc. They did Dhoom 2 but they were not paired together and the film was a Blockbuster. They also did Guru together which was their best film together, not to forget their dance number Kajrare from Bunty aur Babli. All this happened before their marriage.

Now after marriage, Aishwarya did Sarkar Raj with Abhishek and Amitabh which did below average business. In 2008 she had one major National award winning hit Jodha Akbar but after that she had

Pink of Panther 2 - Disaster

The Legion- Disaster

Action Replay- Flop

Enthiran/Robot - Blockbuster

Ravan- Flop

Guzarish- Flop

(After this she took a long sabbatical from films for 5 years. Since then she has been on and off from films)

Jazbaa her comeback film- Flop

Sarbjit- Flop

Ae Dil hai Mushil- Hit

Fanney Khan- Disaster

PS-1 - Blockbuster

PS-2 - Hit

(None of her hits apart from Jodha Akbar post marriage were solo hits)

Abhishek Bachchan has even worse record post marriage

Sarkar Raj- Below Average

Drona- Disaster

Dostana- Above Average

Paa- Semi Hit

Delhi 6- Flop

Raavan- Flop

Khelein ham Jee Jaan se- Disaster

Game- Disaster

Dum Maaro Dum- Flop

Players - Flop

Bol Bachchan - Hit

Dhoom 3- All Time Blockbuster

Happy New Year- Superhit

Housefull 3- Hit

All is well- Disaster

Manmarziyan- Flop

(Since then Abhishek Bachchan has 10 releases but only 3 released in theatres rest all were OTT releases where he found new found appreciation and acclaim but his films in theatres didn't do well even when they were accalimed like I want to Talk, Ghoomar etc.)

So to say that Aishwarya was benefited from Bachchan surname is quite stupid. She made her career way before any association with Bacchans. Also she is one of the rare actresses to work considerably in Hollywood with 5 Hollywood or crossover films apart from regular visit to Cannes.