Top Bollywood Hollywood actors include Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan, Anupam Kher and Freida Pinto
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BOLLYWOOD: Quite a few of Bollywood stars have featured in Hollywood. After Irrfan Khan, Priyanka Chopra is the most international star among these Bollywood actors who have gone to act in Hollywood films.
Here are the Bollywood stars who have worked in Hollywood films:
1: Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan (second from left in the above scene from The Namesake), the most International star from India, acted in such major films as The Namesake (2006), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), New York I Love You (2008), Life of Pie (2012), The Amazing Spiderman (2012) and Jurassic World (2015).
2: Amitabh Bachchan
Bollywood super star Amitabh Bachchan has been seen only in one Hollywood movie – The Great Gatsby (2013) – and that too very late in his career. The film did okay at the boxoffice. In the film, which has Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role and also featured Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton, Amitabh played the role of a Jewish gambler named Meyer Wolfshiem.
3: Freida Pinto
After her dream debut in Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Freida has become the most famous Indian actress on the global stage. The other Hollywood films she has acted in include You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Miral (2010), Black Gold (2011), Rise of Planet of the Apes (2011), and Immortals (2011).
4: Mallika Sherawat
Controversial and bold actress Mallika Sherawat has also landed quite a few roles in Hollywood. She played the lead role of a snake woman in Hollywood movie Hisss (2010). The film also featured Irrfan Khan. Mallika has also acted in The Myth (2005) and Politics of Love (2011).
5: Aishwarya Rai
One of the most beautiful women in the world and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai too has gone on to act in Hollywood, starting with Bride and Prejudice (2004) in which she played the role of Punjabi bride Kiranjit Ahluwalia who kills her abusive husband and gets jailed. Aishwarya followed it up with The Mistress of Spices (2005), Provoked: A True Story (2006), The Last Legion (2007) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009) in which she played the role of criminology expert Sonia Solandres.
6: Anil Kapoor
Slumdog Millionaire was a big Hollywood break for Anil Kapoor who then went on to do Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with Tom Cruise.
7: Tabu
Tabu has featured in two Hollywood films – The Namesake (2006) in which she plays Irrfan Khan’s wife and Life of Pie (2012).
8: Om Puri
Om Puri has acted in more Hollywood movies than any Indian actor. His list includes City of Joy (1992), Wolf (1994), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), My Son the Fanatic (1997), East is East (1999), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), West is West (2010), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) and Gurinder Chadha’s upcoming Viceroy’s House.
9: Amrish Puri
One of the finest villains in Bollywood, Amrish Puri also played one of the best roles ever played by any Indian actor in a Hollywood movie. It was his role of Mola Ram in Steven Spielberger’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He also played the role of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in Richard Attenborough’s epic Gandhi (1982) which went on to sweep the Oscars that year.
10: Roshan Seth:
Roshan Seth played the role of Pandit Nehru in Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982). Other major films that Seth featured in include Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, A Passage to India, My Beautiful Laundrette, Street Fighter and Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala (1992).
11: Anupam Kher:
The veteran Bollywood actor has played roles in many western movies such as Bend it like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice, Silver Linings Playbook, Hotel Mumbai, The Mistress of Spices and Speedy Singhs.
12: Priyanka Chopra
The former Miss World and Bollywood actor is currently the most well-known Indian face on the international entertainment stage. Priyanka made her mark with her role in Quantico, and she has acted in Baywatch, We Can be Heroes, The Matrix 4, Isn’t It Romantic, etc.
