Who’d imagine Shah Rukh Khan, who started off as Bollywood’s quintessential bad guy in his earlier succesful films like Darr and Baazigar would become India’s favourite romantic hero. But the star’s transition from playing characters with dark shades to those emoting love through rose-tinted glasses was effortless. And on the other hand, there are actors who started off as the perfect ladies’ man in the ’80 and the ’90s but currently prefer to experiment with their roles, playing negative characters every now and then with elan...

Juhi Chawla
’80s hits: Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
Debut as a villain: Gulaab Gang (2013)
Switch: It’s a bit difficult to imagine this bubbly actress in a vamp-like mode. However, the 45-year-old has taken upon herself the challenge of essaying an evil lady in her upcoming Gulaab Gang while Madhuri Dixit is playing the protagonist. The new millennium saw her reducing her movie assignments and eventually settling down in 2007. In the past few years, she has been mostly noticed in maternal avatars.