Anupam Kher - Chasme Baddhoor (2013)

Anupam Kher has played double role in following movies.

Zokkomon (2011) - (Deshraj and 'scientist' Magic),
Jaan-E-Mann (2006) - (Bonney Kapoor (dwarf) and cafe owner in New York).

Alongwith Anupam Kher, Preity Zinta has played double role in Jaan-E-Mann (Piya Goel Kapoor and Preity Zintacova).

Dhokebaaz (1984) has double role of Shatrughan Sinha (Rakesh Mathur alias Rocky and Bankebihari alias Raju).

Farz Aur Kanoon (1982) has double role of Jeetendra (Inspector Ranjit Kumar and Ramu).

Gentleman (1989) has double role of Govinda (Hariprasad and Omkar).

Jaan Ki Baazi (1985) has double role of Sanjay Dutt (Inspector Amar and Laxman).

In Jaane Hoga Kya (2006), Aftab Shivdasani plays character 'Siddharth Sardesai' who clones himself. So it may not be treated as double role for lack of separate entity.

Paresh Rawal -

Arjun Kapoor...

Just for fun, here's a different kind of double-rile

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151680526523813&set=a.424830658812.198242.681838812&type=1&theater

Sanjay did the right thing by also hiding the actor's name and also adding the warning. (I'm removing the post and the responses because it seems the right thing to do, and in the end, it may actally turn ot to be just a media strategy and actually no double role. who knows?)

But now, a larger question --

This entire thread and the various new posts in it are actually spoilers for someone or the other, aren't they? Even if a movie is old, and the double role was meant to be the surprise element, it would end up as a spoiler for someone who has not seen that movie.

So shouldn't all new posts be made with spoiler tags, and then mods would add new info to the "big list" (primarily Sanjay in this case since he maintains the big list)

But Sanjay, you and I would still be open to the risk of getting info abt a movie we haven't already seen, even some older movies. Pls the info we compile and maintain in this topic as mods, may still be something others have missed in the media and may also prefer to keep it that way. And the kids who are growing up and discovering the magic -- why put them at risk?

And then, how do we decide when is a movie old enough? After first day first show? Even after some weeks, the same info would have the potential of ruining the movie for someone or the other?

What do folks think abt this?

Sujit Kumar in...

Prem Chopra

I would presume that a double role will be when one acts as two different people in the same time frame. In reincarnation it is the same person at different time frames.

but still counted !

BTW, there are some movies in which when someone removes a mask, you see another actor (and usu the actor with the face of the masked character is playing another character -- a double role). But the thing is, till that time, it's actually the first actor actually playing a double role. That too should be counted.

For example,

Shashi Kapoor

War Chhod Na Yaar (2013)