While Shahid plays two altered roles in Vishal Bharadwaj's "Kaminey" - he will be apparent as a boy-next-door as able-bodied as a beast - Akshay will do the aforementioned for Vipul Shah's "Time Machine".
Shahid, who plays identical twins alongside Priyanka Chopra in "Kaminey", says he was acutely aflame about arena a bifold role and his administrator helped him in essaying both the characters with ease.
"Fortunately, I had Vishal as a administrator who is actually outstanding at his ability - so that helped me a lot. There was a lot that he had already done for me. One of the guys has a lisp which is simple to handle although it is actual difficult if you are carrying dialogues," Shahid told a TV channel.
Akshay will play a bifold role - of a ancestor and son in "Time Machine", which will see him travelling through time from Mumbai in the 1950s to the present day city-limits to actual a accomplished deed.
"The travelling through time allotment will be the film's capital allure as it will appear through a time machine. But the big draw will be Akshay, who will play both the ancestor and the son," a antecedent abutting to the activity was quoted as saying.
Even Ranbir Kapoor has been angled to affectation two shades in Vikramjit Singh's afresh appear activity "Mera Jahaan", in which he teams up with his absolute activity adherent Deepika Padukone.
In 2007, "Om Shanti Om" saw not alone superstar Shah Rukh Baron in a bifold role but his co-star Deepika Padukone too had a accompanying role in the reincarnation drama. She was already afresh apparent in a bifold role in "Chandni Chowk To China" aboriginal this year.
According to the 23-year-old actress, she had to undertake all-encompassing analysis to article one of her characters in "Om Shanti Om", which was a accolade to the 1970s aeon in Bollywood.
"I watched a lot of films starring Hema Malini and Helen, for instance 'Jewel Thief' and 'Seeta Aur Geeta', to apprehension how they were made.
"In the films of that time, aggregate was over the top - the affections were abstract admitting I adore the boldness of the '70s era films. The actors were added adroit and their physique accent was absolutely altered from today's actors," Deepika had told IANS.
Besides Deepika, actors Paresh Rawal and Asin Thottumkal were apparent in a bifold role in "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!" and the Hindi adaptation of "Dasavatharam" appropriately this year.
The trend of interspersing bifold roles into Bollywood scripts isn't a contempo development. It has bent filmmakers' adorned back the 1960s if beloved amateur Dev Anand starred in the 1961 blur "Hum Dono".
Thereafter, several actors like Dilip Kumar ("Ram Aur Shyam"), Sanjeev Kumar ("Angoor"), Amitabh Bachchan ("Don"), Dharmendra ("Samadhi"), Anil Kapoor ("Kishen Kanhaiya"), Sridevi ("Chaalbaaz") and Hema Malini ("Seeta Aur Geeta") accept essayed bifold roles. In fact, Govinda took on six roles in "Hadd Kar Di Aapne".
Shan Rukh has aswell played bifold roles in "Duplicate" and "Paheli". Akshay Kumar did it in "Aflatoon" and "8X10 Tasveer", Kajol in "Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi" and "Dushman" and Hrithik Roshan in "Kaho Na Pyaar Hai".
Inspired by Bollywood, even the baby awning has best up the trend. NDTV Imagine has afresh started a new appearance "Seeta Aur Geeta", based on the eponymous 1972 Hema Malini-starrer. Bollywood's 'Dreamgirl' afresh played a bifold role in the television alternation "Kamini Damini".
