Sonu Nigam, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor: Actors who went unrecognised with make-up

Sonu Nigam slipped into the garb of an aged street performer, while the newly released web video 'The Roadside Ustaad' captures mixed reactions of commoners who were oblivious to the fact that the old man is Sonu.

Earlier, Akshay Kumar’s pictures in his villainous avatar in film 2.0, Rishi Kapoor's new octogenarian look from 'Kapoor and Sons' are few examples of celebs who were unrecognisable with the make-up they did. A look!

Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam, who has been enthralling fans with his melodious voice for over two decades now, slipped into the garb of an aged street performer for a newly released web video. The video, titled “The Roadside Ustaad”, was released on Culture Machine’s digital channel Being Indian.

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, who will be seen playing the role of a villain for the first time onscreen in Rajinikanth starrer 2.0, is almost unrecognisable in the crow look pictures that have been doing the rounds on Twitter. (Source: Twitter)

SRK in Fan: SRK will be seen playing the role of a die-hard fan Gaurav who idolises his screen idol, Aryan Khanna. SRK's make-up in the movie gives him the look and feel of a very young guy right from the way his hair is parted to the skin tone of his face. The star even underwent a digital 3D face scanning to get the right look for the movie.

Hrithik Roshan in Dhoom 2; This movie had Hrithik wearing many garbs. A London-based company called Hybrid was called in to dress Hrithik's looks and each disguise took 5-6 hours. The look which took the cake was the one where he dressed up like Her Majesty to steal the crown.

Vikram in I: For Shankar's I, Tamil actor Vikram had to put on garish make-up to look like the crooked, pimple infected balding monster. Make-up of Vikram was done by New Zealand-based Weta Digital.

Amitabh Bachchan in Paa; Amitabh had to undergo complete facial transformation to play the progeria afflicted Auro. International make-up artist Stephen Dupuis made Big B wear over eight pieces of specially crafted clay to look like Auro.

Riteish Deshmukh in Humshakals: One of the last films in which Riteish cross dressed as a female was Humshakals. The actor look extremely convincing in his part and to his credit looked much more beautiful than some of the actresses in the film.

Kamal Hassan in Chachi 420, Dashavatar, Indian: He could be called the master of disguise. Kamal Hassan convincingly played an ageing granny in Chachi 420 while in Dashavatar he played 10 different roles including former US President George Bush. The actor went unrecognised in every role that he portrayed due to the brilliant prosthetic make-up. Similarly in the film Indian, he remained almost unrecognised in the role of an old man.