10 Actors DE-AGED For Huge Movie Roles

Hindi-language action-thriller Fan stars "Baadshah of Bollywood" Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as Bollywood actor Aryan Khanna as well as his obsessed fan-cum-vengeful stalker Gaurav Chandna, who looks like a younger version of him and uses this likeness to his advantage. Appropriately enough, the film operates as a kind of poisoned letter to Bollywood that places Khan on a pedestal and then uses his opposite to criticise the culture, the status and the sensationalism that is such a big part of the scene.

Rather than draft in a relative or another actor who looks enough like Khan to sell the Gaurav part, the actor was signed on with the intention of playing both roles himself. Director Maneesh Sharma and his team used prosthetics in-scene, filming the required shots with two performances from Khan, before taking the footage to the effects lab for further post-production work.

To achieve a convincing effect, they used a process of 3D scanning on the actor and then layered VFX to iron out the actor's lines and wrinkles, add some baby fat to his face, and slim his frame down, taking away muscle mass from the arms, waist and shoulders. The effects are impressive and serve the film precisely as they are meant to, often prompting us to forget we're not watching two different people.