Top 10 Muslim celebrities in Bollywood


Top Ten Muslim Celebrities
Indian cinema is a facet of all diverse cultures and traditions that the country is home to. The movies or the songs speak for the norms, values and different ethics of all religions. To accomplish all these categories of movies, many superstars and innovative characters have come ahead and made many movies. Among them there are a number of Muslim characters, who have played major roles in the movies. The Bollywood industry has given many iconic actors including Muslims as well as Hindus. It gave rights to everyone to come ahead rather in any field as of music, direction, production or whatsoever. There are also great directors including Muslim directors as Mehboob Khan, Gulzar, Kamal Haasan, Kabir Khan, and Sajid Kamran Khan, who have made super hit movies in the Indian cinema.

The biggest Muslim actors are three Khans as Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan. These superstars have not changed their original names into another one in order to gain fame or publicity as being modern. Although they have faced a lot of troubles in the beginning of their career. They were doomed to negligible roles to represent their community or have to portray such roles for stereotypes.

The Muslim actors or characters can be appeared in any Indian movie. The Muslim actors have played different roles in the movies as to represent their own community or the other characters like Hindus to show them theirs. Sometimes, they have participated in the movies to be revealed the ‘Islamicate’ in which they show the matters that deal with the cultural life of Muslims rather than religious. There are various Muslim characters in Bollywood who have ranked on the top. The names of these top stars are under below;

Shahrukh Khan:


Shahrukh Khan has started his career with his debuted film like Deewana. In his early career, he had to play the role as a villain in most of his films. After making some movies with positive roles, he has become as a role model and a prominent figure among the young generation. The king of Bollywood has made more than 80 movies in his career and now considered as to be the world’s biggest movie star.

Salman Khan:


Salman Khan is another Bollywood superstar who has started his career as a hero. He is also known as the tiger of Bollywood and his fans love to call him with the names as ‘Sallu’ or ‘Bhaijaan’. As being the son of Salim, a screenwriter, Salman has made debut with the supporting role in the film, ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’. After that he has made a number of Bollywood movies that ranked in the list of the toppers and because of them, he got much popularity among the people. Recently, he has made the movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan which has grossed all the records and become as a blockbuster movie of the Indian cinema.

Aamir Khan:


Aamir Khan is an Indian film actor who has established his career as playing a child character in his uncle’s film ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’. Then, he had made another feature film, Holi and got popularity with the romantic film, ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’. With his popularity, he is considered as one of the super stars as well as influential characters of Bollywood.

Saif Ali Khan:


Saif Ali Khan is one of the Muslim superstars of the Indian cinema. He has made his career as a hero with his debuted film ‘Parampara’. His successful career was started with the film, ‘Main Khiladi Tu Anari’. After that he has made a lot of movies which have ranked in the box office Race, Love Aaj Kal, Kurbaan, Race 2, Humshakals, Happy Ending and Phantom.

Emraan Hashmi:


Emraan is the most romantic actor of the Bollywood industry as he has done romance in most of his films. Emraan is an Indian film actor who is the nephew of Mahesh Bhatt. He has started his career as a hero with his debut film Footpath. It would not be wrong to say that Emraan Hashmi is one of those actors who have proven themselves as contemporary actors.

Imran Khan:


Imran Khan is one of the famous Muslim characters who has the filmy background. Imran Khan is the nephew of superstar Aamir Khan and the famous producer / director Mansoor Khan. He has made his acting debut with the romantic comic film Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Na. This movie was proved for him as a more critical and successful; and it was appreciated among the people.

Nawazuddin Siddique:


Nawazuddin Siddique is an actor of the Indian cinema who has inborn abilities to perform in any given role. He has done various movies with negative characters but recently, he has played as a role of comedian with positive characteristics in Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

Sohail Khan:


Sohail Khan belongs to another renowned family, Salim Khan. He is the younger brother of both superstars Salman Khan and Arbaz Khan. He has made his acting debut with the film, ‘Maine Dil Tujhko Diya’. Further, he has produced and directed many films under his own banner Soahil Khan Productions.

Fardeen Khan:


Fardeen Khan is one of Indian ex- actors of the Indian cinema who had established his career as a leading character. His first Bollywood film named Prem Aggan has received many appreciations from the audience and the hero has garnered the Filmfare Best Debut Award.

Dilip Kumar (Muhammad Yousuf Khan):


Dilip Kumar is one of those Muslim characters who have changed their names to enter into Bollywood industry. Dilip Kumar was born as Muhammad Yousuf Khan in the area of Peshawar. After partition, his family has moved to Mumbai. There he left his home to join the canteen of Pune. Indian actress Devika Rani found him in the canteens of Pune and offered him an opportunity to become a member of the film, ‘Jwar Bhata ’. He is also known as the king of tragedy. Then, he did various super hit movies and video songs to entertain the people of India as well as the people of all across the world.

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