Bollywood actors are always surrounded by controversies, be it for their relationship, extra marital affairs, style statement and sometimes for their tainted deeds. It becomes difficult to make it to Bollywood due to the risk of going directionless completely. For the rising stars, it becomes all the more onerous as the rising stars of Bollywood sometimes fall prey to some serious controversies due to scandals and legal battles. Bollywood stars manage to stay in the news with the things they do and say about their personal and professional life. We chose to highlight those celebs who rose to fame from controversies. The top 6 actors who make it to our list include many biggies of Bollywood who have a substantial fan following, let’s know them below
DEEPIKA PADUKONE
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Deepika Padukone is one of the beloved actresses of B- town for her acting to dressing sense. She has completed a decade in Bollywood and she is not new to controversies. Her movie ‘Padmaavat’ created numerous controversies before its release as it received a lot of backlashes from a section of the audience including Karni Sena as they believed their queen ‘Padmavati’ was portrayed in an inappropriate manner. Karni Sena threatened Deepika of chopping her nose if they don’t stop the release of the film. Even they allegedly destroyed the set of the shooting area. After two months of the struggle, the movie was finally released named as ‘Padmaavat’. After the release of this film, it got massive success on the box office. Deepika Padukone was praised for her acting and dedication. It seems she got the unachieved fame after this controversy. Another controversy arose when Deepika Padukone joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students to support them and condemn the attack on JNU students without knowing the real cause of it. She was in the city to promote her movie ‘Chhapaak’. Very few supported her, while many called it was a promotional stunt and accused her for being an anti-national to stand with JNU student without knowing the real cause of it. Inspite of these controversies, she became more popular worldwide though the movie couldn’t make a super bumper box office collection due to the controversies around the promotional activity.
SALMAN KHAN
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Salman Khan, the Bhai of Bollywood, has always occupied headlines for different controversial issues. He is always in the news for his alleged illegal action, relationships, films and charity works. Once he was in an alleged relationship with Aishwarya Rai, and reports claim that they had a nasty break-up in 2002 and a lot of rumors were heard about how Salman Khan ill-treated Aishwarya when they were in this alleged relationship. Rai’s family reportedly lodged an official complaint against him for harassing their daughter after the break up. But this controversy didn’t affect Salman’s career. Later on, he acted in several films which were successful on the box office. He became more popular too.
ALIA BHATT
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When Alia Bhatt entered into the glamorous world of Bollywood, she was allegedly linked-up to many of her co-actors, whether Varun Dhawan or Siddharth Malhotra or Arjun Kapoor. The epic controversy was when she attended Karan Johar’s famous show ‘Koffee with Karan’ where Karan asked her who is the President of India, to which she answered “Prithviraj Chauhan”. It was hilarious to watch her making this unexpected goof-up. Soon this incident got viral everywhere and people trolled her for her foolish reply. It is said that the unexpected and hilarious mistake by Alia turned out to be a boon for her as she picked-up mileage from this incident and embarrassingly earned the tag of being a “beauty without brain” in the industry. Inspite of these moments, she acted in the movies which became very much a hit.
RANBIR KAPOOR
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The chocolate boy of the B-town, Ranbir Kapoor make it to our list next. There are several controversies around him, the most recent one that he is dating Alia Bhatt. During his early stage of career in Bollywood, he also couldn’t abstain from getting roped into some unexpected controversies. It is during the filming of his movie ‘Rockstar’ when people allegedly saw waving of a Tibet flag in the background of the movie’s song titled ‘Sadda Haq’. Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) told Imtiaz Ali to blur the flag, but the director allegedly didn’t do that, and what happened was expected i.e. the Tibetans protested against this song. The protest and controversies around it didn’t really affect the box office collection of the movie as after the release of ‘Rockstar’, the news broke that it got a massive box office success and made Ranbir Kapoor a superstar.
RANVEER SINGH
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The weird fashion taste of Ranveer Singh is known by many and he is trolled a lot for his fashion disaster dressing sense, but he is one of the highly paid actors too. With his hard work and dedication now, he has become one of the top-rated actors of all time in Bollywood. During the early stage in his career, he also faced some controversies. He got in the limelight after a First Information Report (FIR) was filed against him along with other celebs for participating in an adult content based show ‘AIB Knockout’. Though he was criticized by many for his vulgur presentation, however this incident didn’t affect his career. He acted in the films like ‘Padmaavat’, ‘Bajirao Mastani’, ‘Gully Boy’, etc. which were tagged as super hit movies.
VICKY KAUSHAL
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Vicky Kaushal started his career as a child actor, and his hard work acted as a catalyst for his success as he made it to the protagonist’s role in many following movies. Though he started as a child actor, he did not have a backing of any Bollywood biggie like other star kids like Alia Bhatt, Sara Ali Khan, Jahnvi Kapoor, etc. as he was not a star kid. There are several controversies reserved in the name of Vicky Kaushal. As per report, his dialogue in the 2019 released movie ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ “Apni 72 hooron ko hamara salaam bolna! Kehna dawaat par intezar karein, aaj bahut saare mehman bhejne wale hain.” received backlash from a section of the society and a minority community after which it was edited and presented in the movie.
So these were the Bollywood celebs that could make it to our list. While we leave you, let us talk about one of a starkids that is making a lot of news these days. The ongoing controversies around Aryan Khan, the son of Shahrukh Khan, regarding a drug case, is said to have made the starkid a super star already. Wait, we aren’t saying it. These are the words from the director of ‘Aag’, Ram Gopal Verma, who said that Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has turned Aryan Khan into a biggest star than his father, Shahrukh Khan. He also predicted that Aryan Khan will become an actor only in the future. Well, only time will say if Aryan Khan will be a super star or a lost star who audience may like or sideline like many in the past.
