Who is an actor who you think looks better older than they did when they were younger?

( Priyanka Chopra )

Many actors age like old wine. Perhaps, they grow with life.

Priyanka Chopra : This former beauty queen was once panned by critics for her looks.

Film magazines hardly took her seriously. Few known film makers preferred her.

(Priyanka Chopra in Bajirao Mastani)

But, she gradually developed herself.

Unlike many beautiful actors and actresses , she enchants her audience with talent, language skill.

Well, she proved herself with her acting prowess.

(Priyanka Chopra as cover girl of Time)

Diva : Down the years ; she has become a cover girl for many magazines.

Well, her overall persona has earned her to make a mark.

( Priyanka Chopra receiving Padma Shri)

Facts : Good actors gradually develop their inner beauty (acting skills ; persona) .

Facial features often fade with time. But, talent and special skills stay forever.

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Is there anything even older than Ramayana and Mahabharata?

A chronological journey through ancient Indian history, showing the evolution from the early Vedic Age and Upanishadic wisdom to the epic eras of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

The question of what lies beyond the horizon of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is not just a search for older books, but a journey into the deepest layers of human memory. To find what is older than these two great epics, one must look at the very foundation upon which they were built.

Before the grand battles of Kurukshetra were fought and before the kingdom of Ayodhya was chronicled, there existed a timeless oral tradition. This tradition did not rely on ink or palm leaves, but on the flawless, syllable-by-syllable transmission of sound through generations of seers.

The epics themselves provide the first clue to this mystery, as both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata frequently pause their narratives to pay homage to an older, higher authority. The characters within these epics look backward in time to texts that were already considered ancient even during the golden ages of Rama and Krishna.

These ancient sources are the Vedas, which represent the oldest layered structure of knowledge in Indo-European history. Among them, the Rigveda stands as the absolute oldest, a collection of sacred hymns that captures a world existing thousands of years before the epics were ever committed to writing.

While the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are classified as Itihasa, meaning history or that which happened, the Vedas are classified as Sruti, meaning that which was heard by ancient rishis in deep states of meditation.

To understand the timeline, one must look at how human thought evolved across these eras, moving from the cosmic chants of the Vedas to the structured philosophical inquiries of the Upanishads, and finally into the narrative storytelling of the Epics.

The world of the Rigveda is fundamentally different from the world of the epics, as it lacks the grand stone palaces, complex urban kingdoms, and detailed genealogies that define the stories of the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Instead, the Rigveda speaks of a pastoral, river-centric civilization that worshipped the elemental forces of nature like fire, wind, and water.

Astronomical calculations found within the hymns of the Rigveda point to planetary alignments that date back to 4000 BCE and even earlier, long before the cultural settings described in the two great epics.

Furthermore, archeological and linguistic studies of the ancient Sarasvati River, which is described as a mighty, flowing river in the Rigveda but is already drying up by the time of the Mahabharata, prove the geographical antiquity of the Vedic texts.

Therefore, the ultimate answer to what is older than the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is the Vedic literature, an ancient ocean of sound and philosophy from which the epics themselves eventually emerged.

The Older You Get, The More You Understand

1. Protecting your peace is more important than proving a point.
2. Not everyone deserves access to your time and energy.
3. Silence often speaks louder than unnecessary explanations.
4. Growth means outgrowing people, habits, and old versions of yourself.
5. You don’t need validation from others to feel worthy.
6. Consistency beats motivation every single time.
7. Walking away can be the most powerful decision you make.
8. Your circle should inspire you, not drain you.
9. Healing takes time—and that’s okay.
10. Happiness often comes from the simplest things in life.

Did older Indian films often have credits written in Urdu? If so, why was that?

 It’s Because Many of the Pioneers and craftsmen in Bollywood came from the Urdu medium.

It is important for modern day Indians and Pakistanis to understand that
the Hindustani language spoken in olden Bollywood was the language of formal education in most parts of India the Nastaliq Script used to write Urdu was popular among major parts of North and West Undivided India because of Mughal reign heavily emphasized on use of this language as it was the language of people as compared to Upper-class Indians who spoke Farsi in place of Urdu.

Interestingly up until sometime in history until last 200 years Urdu with the nastaliq script was regarded as the language of Hindus and labelled as “ language of Hindus”.

until the British came and created a santadardized version of both the languages and divided them into Hindi and Urdu respectively and post partition both the countries started using them creating the language divide further, the popular saying

Almost most of the yestyear stars like Balraj Sahni, Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt , Dev Anand , Dilip Kumar Dharmendra and Manoj Kumar used to read and write there dialogues in which now is regarded as Urdu.

Hence these two languages have there separate exisistence as of now but deep inside they are one and cannot withstand without eachother’s coexisistence just like our Nation

Namaste

How can we justify Dia Mirza's statement that older actors are bizarre with young actresses?

Rajinikanth was 65 years old and Sonakshi Sinha was around 27. Thats 38 years. She was younger than Rajinis daughters who were 33 and 29.

Most of the audience in TN.did not find it bizzare. Yes the movie was awful but i didnt actually even think about the age gap.

Rajini could play 35–40 even at 65

Ajith was 47 years old. Kajal was 31 years old. The difference was 16 years. Less than.half of the difference between Rajini and Sonakshi. Yet i remember thinking - Ajith looks like her father in the scenes.

Ajith looks 47 and is 47

Its called perception.

Not everyone knows how old the actors are. On.the Screen, the Actor is a character and the actress is a character. Its the characters whose chemistry is crucial, not the actors.

Ajith (41) and Trisha (28) clicked in this movie. Their characters were apt. It was Vinayak and not Ajith people saw. Vinayak was apt for Trisha.

Ajith plays 37–40 at 41 but the story creates a believable pairing as the age gap.fits.

Kamal was 53 -54 yrs and Trisha 26 - Yet Major Mannar (Character) looks perfectly apt with Ambujakshi (Character).

He plays 38–42 though he is 53–54.

Here Andrea is 29 and Kamal is 60. Nearly the same age difference but here he looks like an Old Lecher seducing a young girl.

Here Kamal looks 60 and plays 60.

Prabhu was 44 and Ramya Krishna 29 at the time of this movie. Yet Prabhu played 32–35 and somehow managed to achieve it. The pairing was believable.

So in the end:

Its the Character and not the Acto. If the Characters are apt, nothing looks weird. If the Characters are not apt, everything looks weird.

Actors like Rajkumar played romantic roles with heroines half his age yet nobody realized this as the characters were apt and his charcter could play 35–40 even though he was himself 65.

Meanwhile Sivaji played romantic roles aged 50 but looked 55 and so looked like the heroines father.

I have used Tamil Cinema because the age differences are much more in Tamil Cinema than Bollywood.