Male Actors Who Played Female Characters

An actor has to play distinctive roles in the film, sometimes a villain, a hero, a mentally challenged person and sometimes even an opposite gender. Bollywood industry has made its audiences witness a lot of instances where an actor took the challenge of playing a female character in the movie. Some of them did justice to their female role and some could not hide their machoism. Some roles were short while some of them were lengthy and these male actors played it quite well.

We all agree with the fact that we get tons of laughter after witnessing dashing male characters dressing up in a female character. A male actor playing a female role in a movie has been there in trend for ages. Actors like Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor have also played female roles.

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So here we have a list of our favorite Bollywood male actors dressed up in a female look on the silver screen that made the movie a lot better filled with tons of laughter!

1. Saif Ali Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Ram Kapoor

The movie ‘Humshakals’ casts it’s three heroes in a female Avatar adding a fun element. While we have seen Ritesh Deshmukh playing a female character before, Saif and television star Ram Kapoor are donning the female look for the first time on the silver screen.

Saif Ali Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Ram Kapoor-Humshakals

2. Salman Khan

It’s hard to digest the fact that the ever handsome Salman Khan played a female role in the movie ‘Jaan-e-Mann’. His outfit consisted of a halter neck dress that was pink in color paired up with a blonde wig. But even after all this he still couldn’t hide his masculine body shape.

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Salman Khan Jaan-e-Mann as female

3. Ritesh Deshmukh

Ritesh puts a female look in his movie ‘Apna Sapna Money Money’. Dressed up in a female look his expressions and acting were fabulous. He was so engrossed in his character that everyone on the set of the movie treated him as a sexy aunty. His comedy was on point and he made his fans go crazy after him.

Ritesh Deshmukh-Apna Sapna Money Money as female

4. Shreyas Talpade

He is one such actor who has nailed his every female avatar scene. The passion and dedication with which he has done his roles make him sophisticated and perfectionist. His movie likes ‘Paying Guest’ and ‘Golmaal 2’ are examples where he pulled off his woman look with much brilliance.

Shreyas Talpade Paying guest female role

5. Ajay Devgn, Tushar Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, and Shreyas Talpade

In the sequel of ‘Golmaal’, the four actors Ajay, Tushar, Arshad, and Shreyas were seen pulling up a woman look and they nailed the scene with waves of laughter and comedy.

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Golmaas female characters

6. Shahid Kapoor

In the film, ‘Milenge Milenge’ Shahid Kapoor picked up a woman’s role. His attire consisted of a dark pink top, blue jeans paired up with a blonde wig. Shahid looks funny and cute at the same time.

milenge milenge shahid kapoor female

7. Shahrukh Khan

Even this macho man took up a female attire in the movie ‘Duplicate’. Imagining Shahrukh Khan like this is quite hilarious and weird.

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Shahrukh Khan Duplicate

8. Akshay Kumar and Deepak Tijori

In the movie ‘Khiladi’ which was released in the year 1992, both Akshay and Tijori dressed up in a female look. They nailed their scene and gave us a stomach ache laughter and made their roles much more fun.

Akshay Kumar and Deepak Tijori female role

9. Kamal Hassan

Kamal Hassan is widely known for his brilliant acting as a female look in the movie ‘Chachi 420’. His look was so brilliantly pulled up that for once people couldn’t recognize that he was Kamal Hassan. His acting in the movie was also on fleek as it took people insane from laughter.

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Chachi 420 kamal hasan female roles

10. Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan was seen clad in a woman’s role in the song Dole Dole Dil from the film ‘Baazi’. However this was not just it, we have witnessed Amir dressed up as a woman in various tv ads like that of Godrej, Coco-Cola and Tata Sky. We all agree with the fact that we get tons of laughter after witnessing dashing male characters like Amir dressing up in a female character. It adds another level of fun element to the film.

Aamir Khan baazi female

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11. Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan in the movie ‘Cocktail’ has pulled up a female look. He is wearing red lipstick and was dressed up in lingerie. He has also been seen in a female avatar in the movie ‘Humshakals’.

Saif Ali Khan cocktail female

12. Govinda

No doubt he was a superstar of his times. He can nail any role he plays and most of his films were a super hit. Govinda has proved that he can do anything with perfection even playing a female role. His fans can’t forget him in ‘Aunty No. 1’. The comedy king turned into quite the comedy queen with much enthusiasm!

Govinda Aunty female role No. 1

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13. Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh mostly played the role of an angry man in his movies. But then Big B went under a female garb for the superhit song ‘Mere Angene Mein, Tumhara Kya Kaam Hai’ from the movie ‘Lawaaris’. The song sequence became a major hit due to Amitabh‘s female look and his performance.

Amitabh Bachchan female role

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