Applying lip colour, chomping chocolate, gulping milk or driving cars, quite a few actors started out their career modelling for television commercials. At times as a young kid, on others a gawky teenager, compared to their big screen outings, their appearance on commercials is almost unrecognisable.
To think you've seen them all along. And yet acknowledgement of this familiarity happened only after they achieved Bollywood brand of stardom.
Want to check how good your memory is? Let's see if you remember these stars from these old, forgotten ads.
Shahid Kapur, Ayesha Takia in Complan
He's a Complan boy. And she's a Complan girl. Together the fast-growing, cuteness-personified Complan duo turns chocolate drink into a rather healthy proposition.
While as kids, Shahid and Ayesha made quite a team of siblings, their endeavour as an adult, romantic Jodi didn't quite create the same impact in bloopers like Dil Maange More and Fool 'n' Final.
Text: Sukanya Verma
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