The Dard-e-Disco look: Shah Rukh not only got a six-pack ab for the bare-all OSO item song, he also grew his hair long to give it “a wild feel”. This was, of course, not the first time SRK had long hair for a film. Asoka was where his flowing tresses were captured in all their glory by Santosh Sivan’s indulgent camera

 

 

 

The Krrazy look: Just a green rubber band to hold the King’s crown of hair? Well, SRK believes in keeping it long and simple! He’s definitely not one for metrosexual hair bands, unlike you know who (AB Baby, of course). The ponytail played a big part in his Wacko Jacko look for the Krrazy 4 item song

 

 

 

The spiky-coppery look: That’s the king’s new hair. Bang in the middle of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ losing streak, Khan dada went and got his crown clipped and dyed in patches. No, not out of IPL despair but for his next film, Aditya Chopra’s Rab De Bana Di Jodi. The spikes are meant to give him a younger look for the film opposite 19-year-old newcomer Anushka Sharma

 

 

 

 

The Mangal pandey Look: The famous handlebar moustache was supported by untamed locks to match the mood of the first warrior for Indian independence. The film didn’t work (that’s being polite) but many women — led by a certain Kiran Rao — seemed to love the wild look of the chocolate boy soldier

 

 

The tintin look: This was The Rising, far more than Mangal Pandey! Aamir had a tuft rising from the middle of the head in Dil Chahta Hai. In Taare Zameen Par, he took the twisted-tuft-on-top to quite another level with all kids styled like that in one sequence. It’s difficult to imagine a screen idol wearing a Tintin look at 43, but Aamir did just that in TZP — and made us cry buckets

 

 

The Ghajini Look: Guy Pearce did it for Christopher Nolan’s Memento. Now Aamir is doing it for Murugadoss’s Ghajini remake. While SRK accentuated his six-pack with long wild hair, Aamir has (not surprisingly) gone the other way and got this crew cut (with cut marks) to complement his carefully-sculpted body. In his new avatar, Aamir looks like Abhay’s Kamal Haasan, another actor who has played around with his hair quite a lot

 

 

 

 

The khiladi Look: Akshay used to just let it be in his early years. The careless unkempt look worked quite well for those all-action Khiladi films. Akki has sure come a long way from his Saugandh days, with various lengths of hair at various times, but the shoulder-length look is quite a favourite for the man and his fans

 

 

The clean look: When Akshay discovered comedy, he also discovered that it paid — quite a lot — to look innocent and seedha sadha. So the neat-clean schoolboy look not only helped highlight his funny lines but also gave Akshay an all-new image — you could finally take him home to meet mom. The pigeons may not have approved of the makeover in Welcome (left), but we quite like this adorable Akki

 

 

The tashan look: Now that Akshay is revisiting his action days, the man’s gone and got his hair cut real short with a stubble to go with it. It started with Tashan when his “gawar Gorilla” Bachchan Pandey would keep scratching his almost-bare scalp. And the new look is going to continue in films like Singh is Kinng and Chandni Chowk to China. As long as the laughs and laafas are in place, we don’t mind...

 

 

 

 

The DCH look: Oh that duck hair of Saifu! Sameer wouldn’t have been Sameer in Dil Chahta Hai had that hair been styled otherwise. The short ’’ sweet fun continued through Hum Tum, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Salaam Namaste, with Saif’s hit haircut making him look young and loveable

 

 

 

The Langda Tyagi look: Midway between a short cut and a crew cut, Saif got it spot on with his hairstyle for Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara. The cropped crown together with the unshaven cheeks worked brilliantly for his Iago, the sinister Langda Tyagi. The next time you watch Beedi jalai le, tear your eyes off Bips and just follow Saif — you will know what a look can do for a character

 

 

 

 

The dude look: Long but light, Saif’s hairstyle for Race and Tashan has a distressed look about it. But when coupled with the thick stubble, it looks quite crafty and cool. Easier to copy than the latest hairstyles of Saif’s counterparts, Chhote Nawab’s Race look has gone down well with his fans. But it won’t be long before Saif returns to more familiar tress terrain with Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, for better or for worse