The matched set with our “most beautiful actresses” post! Which doesn’t mean you have to stop commenting on that one, if I get enough votes I’ll do a “People’s Choice”. Vote now if you want Sridevi and Parveen Babi to be included!
When I say “beautiful”, I mean an arresting face, one I could stare out for hours. Not simple proportionality, but something extra. This was going to be an easy post for me, and then I decided I had to do SOME kind of a challenge and at least let there be a tie.
1950s: Shashi Kapoor
Also, Dev Anand
1960s: Shashi Kapoor
Also Rajesh Khanna
1970s: Shashi Kapoor
Also, Vinod Khanna
1980s: Shashi Kapoor
Also, Jackie Shroff
1990s: Shashi Kapoor
Also, Salman Khan
2000s: Kunal Kapoor
Also, Prithviraj
2010s: Kunal Kapoor
Also, Fawad Khan
dontcallitbollywood 
Dilip Kumar tho!
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Eh. Jowly.
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This made me cackle! SHASHI & KUNAL 4 EVA. Both of them have had me slack-jawed watching them in films. They are stupefyingly handsome but also radiate intelligence in their eyes. Siiiiiiiiigh.
But I will say, no Amitabh? Because he was pretty damned handsome back in the 70s.
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Oh sure, he was handsome enough. But was he beautiful? I don’t think so.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:54 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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what happened to mohanlal? Isn’t he the most beautiful actor in indian cinema? lol
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Too pudgy! If I didn’t include Dilip Saahib, I am certainly not including Mohanlal.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:06 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Shashi Kapoor
Kunal Kapoor
Akshaye Khanna
John Abraham
Maddy
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All of the above, every day and twice on Sundays!
Also,
Dharmendra
Latter-day SRK
Early Aamir
Early Salnan’s eyes
Honorable mentions
Latter-day Mithun
He looks quite distinguished in Guru.
Siddhartha
Boy-band cute in RDB.
I just watched Leila last weekend, the Deepa Mehta directed Netflix series about a dystopian totalitarian future based on a distorted Hindu extremism. Think India’s Handmaid’s Tale. Anyways, holy moses, batman! Siddhartha now looks like Cary Grant but with Gregory Peck’s slimness and high cheekbones. You could cut glass with those cheekbones! Very good looking option for those that like the skinny chiseled sort of guys.
Fawad Khan… Only when he’s carrying a little weight, like in Hunsafar or ADHM. Else I find him too metrosexual.
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I should clarify… Leila stars Huma Qureishi, Siddhartha, and Rahul Khanna (who is also very handsome).
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Not enough detail!
Do you mean this Akshaye:
Or this Akshaye:
And this John Abraham:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQH37t_7kNvOtGw9Byw2DFt8hM35jnjXzjzmtyGg54epoiiRHqC
Or this John Abraham:
https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/story/201904/john-new_0.png?XVzJWbYqAop.k2ow4wyYEwLGsY1le8e1
this Maddy:
Or this Maddy:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I like them all, but if I had to choose…
2000s Akshaye
2000s John, by a hair (no pun intended)
Maddy in every era, in every industry. Just depends movie to movie. Instead of era, I’d go by size, since he varies his weight a lot.
Midsize Maddy >
Larger Maddy >>>
Skinny Maddy
Skinny Maddy is almost unrecognizable, completely loses his Maddyness.
P.S. I first discovered Maddy in Ramji Londonwalla (sp?), which I saw in theaters when it came out. And I just discovered that it’s on Netflix/Amazon now!
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I think you will have to fight with Angie, because she leans more Larger Maddy > Midsize Maddy > Skinny Maddy. But we can all agree skinny Maddy is no good Maddy,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:36 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Saala khadoos Maddy is which Maddy? L or M?
btw I adore this conversation
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L but muscular L. What about this Maddy with the cheek bones:
Versus this Maddy with the Dad Bod:
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:10 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Skinny Maddy
Decent looking man, but completely lacking in “je ne sais quois”.
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What? No Arjun Rampal?
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You, The People, can always rise up and change the list. What decade would you put Arjun in?
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:53 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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This is the greatest thing you ever posted
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I don’t know, I think I could have found better Kunal Kapoor photos.
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Shashi, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna – no doubt
1970 – Dharmendra and I must admit I have a little crush on Sajeev Kumar, just look at him:
https://rahulsaxenablog.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/sanjeev-kumar.jpg?w=500&h=372&crop=1
1980 – I don’t know, it wasn’t a good decade for handsome men
1990/2000 – Akshay Kumar
2000 – John Abraham
2010 – Vidyut Jamwal / Arjun Kapoor in his first movies
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Oooo, 90s Akshay Kumar! Good choice.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:15 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Arjun R.! And also Rahul Khanna. But totally on board with Shashi and Kunal.
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There’s nowhere near the same embarrassment of choices with the men as with the lovely ladies of Hindi films. So much so, that I really have only 2 picks – the brothers Kapoor. 🙂
50 – 60s : Shammi Kapoor
https://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-interview-with-shammi-kapoor/20110816.htm
60s onwards – Shashi Kapoor
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Poor Raj, no one loves him. The ugly one of the family.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:37 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Sonu Sood! Although, I’m not sure it’s his face I’m looking at …
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Aw, you need to see Dharmendra in his youth!
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:05 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Sonu has a face?
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Just gonna drop this photo here. Good lord Shashi was ethereally beautiful.
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The Best Kapoor.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:06 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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You are so right, Margaret; handsome and beautiful are two different things. SRK and Prabhas fit into neither category but OMG, are they both!
I don’t care for pretty men. Arjun Rampal leaves me cold. Now Arjun Kapoor…Yum!
Maddy is lovely. But when he loses the Pillsbury Doughboy cheeks, that’s MY Maddy.
I’m with Angie on Vidyut Jammwal altho his face hasn’t aged as well as his acting (Junglee). His body is still aces.
Never was on the Shashi bandwagon but the young Dharmendra was dreamy.
John Abraham squeaks by as beautiful in a macho way, and my new fave, Vujay Sathupathi, as macho in a beautiful way.
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I agree with Reflects of life about Maddy. I didn’t include him in my list because he is so hard to put in one category. And I also think he looks the best, not in movies but in candid photos, and in real life (let’s hope one day I will be able to check it). when I see his professional photoshoots I’m like: handsome. And when I see his candid pics with his son, or other people, or just simple selfies I can’t take my eyes of him. e.g this pic. I lost count for how long I have been staring at it
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That’s Sala Khadoos Maddy. Mine!
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Shashi and Fawad are tie for me. Kunal does come as a very very close second. I would also add early Aamir, Hrithik, and Sidharth in SOTY. And of course, Aditya Roy Kapoor (oof)!
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Oh also, for some reason I did not think early Salman was very attractive. I still enjoyed his films but Salman became attractive to me around the late 90s, specifically around the Hum Saath Saath Hai time period.
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Really? With the whispy hair?
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:26 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Whispy short hair is so much better than the weird mullet in MPK and HAHK. And that that just before he was balding to the point that he needed hair plugs if he wanted to continue being a hero (i.e. Salman in Chori Chori Chupke Chupke). To me HSSH was the most natural good looking hair on him.
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I love the MPK mullet!!!! Not the Saajan one, that was a mistake, but the MPK look is perfection.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:25 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Yes! What happened to Sid after SOTY? He’s a handsome man now, but I just rewatched SOTY and he is breathtaking in that.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:53 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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He’s even breathtaking in the KWK after SOTY with alia & varun. I was like, Varun who?
My 4 single-film “take my breath away” moments in Indian film –
Vidya Balan in Parineeta
Udita Goswami in Paap
Kunal Kapoor in RDB
Sid M in SOTY
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Really? You were looking at Udita in Paap?
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:36 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I really was. She was just so unusual. Face, eyes, skin tone, body type, even haircut. Breathtakingly beautiful. And starts the movie in a swimsuit… in that era. You figure, the woman had to be special if she makes a woman not notice John.
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Yes to Uditya Ghoswani in Paap!! I could have cared less about John Abraham. She was breathtaking though!
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Sid in SOTY and Sid in Hassee to Phasee was just breathtakingly beautiful. I feel like he did something to his jawline in those movies because it looks so different now. He is still very handsome but he was striking in those movies.
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I know someone in real life who went through that. Age 16 to 26, he was stop traffic, strange women giving him their phone number, kind of handsome. And then after age 26, something shifted slightly and now he is still someone you would look at twice as you walked by, but not that shocking kind of handsome. Worked out for him, because he got married around 26 and has kids and stuff, so it’s not like he needs to stop traffic any more. But it was fascinating to watch and try to figure out what changed.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:31 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Very interesting. I just assumed Sid got his jawline contoured with fillers (very easy to do) while he was modeling and during his first couple films and then wasn’t required to by the directors in his other movies so stopped.
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Oh and I think he got it done for the Rishi portions of A Gentleman. There is a distint jaw line different between Rishi and Gaurav.
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Oh, that is fascinating! I noticed that Rishi was more handsome than Guarav, but I thought it was just a different way of holding himself and facial hair and stuff.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:01 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Arjun Rampal
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRUOJvUe4_GM4x1AL5rqn-Px96LuMRKuSXLn_GCBky1QUR0ao2t
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Oh yeah. that’s a good photo. I would say Handsome today, but back in his youth in the right light, definitely beautiful.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:11 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Shashi and Kunal Kapoor should be retired from this list. Having them on it is just unfair to all other actors.
From the South, why not 2 for 1? The Brothers Sukumaran – https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-56951144,width-800,height-600,resizemode-4/56951144.jpg
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Cuddly and tall! Best of both worlds in one brother set.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Also from the South, Vijay Sethupathi is beautiful at any age.
Young – https://i.pinimg.com/736x/77/2d/24/772d245e85dd7d8091da214a97d93c40.jpg
“Old” – https://thesavvyscreener.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Vikram-Vedha-2.jpg
And after he’s had some work done – https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/story/201903/Super-Deluxe-movie-Stills-3_1_0.png?LIcLIX4t9F.ev0gPxheMHf3iQzgUI.u0
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Okay, okay. Kunal Kapoor, darn his beautiful self! https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/images.asianage.com/images/aa-Cover-57eem1aqk9tf0id6rf9a12rma4-20170224011823.Medi.jpeg
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So beautiful!
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:31 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Shashi, Rahul Khanna, Fawad Khan for sure. Never got the appeal of Kunal Kapoor. I don’t know if you can consider him an actor (has appeared in a few films), but Milind Soman in his heyday was breathtaking
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zS-UAumItpQ/UV-nSsUJ_jI/AAAAAAAAFUo/sw3i5pTH_Y8/s1600/milind_soman_002_ct.jpg
And I would generally never describe SRK as beautiful, but every so often in some scenes and shots, he just is!
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Randeep wonders why you don’t mention him – https://cdn.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2019/04/26/817212-537400-400717-randeep.jpg
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Because I hate his face! His stupid stupid face! He is the anti-beautiful, he is the face I turn away from in misery instead of turning towards it in delight.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:38 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Randeep sad. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c867248da5d4dddcb2d8a67605305b3b.webp
Turns to new, non-judgmental friend . https://buddybits.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Randeep-Hooda-Adopted-A-Pup-And-Sends-This-Strong-Message-768×514.jpg
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Yes, he and his puppy and his many charities and good works can stay happy, so long as they are far far from me.
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