People in the headlines: Entertainers

Who gained, lost, made the front page, set new trends, departed- portraits from 1st decade and a half of 21st century

Irrfan Khan- Till he became Mian Maqbool in the 2003 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Khan was an unknown actor — but since then he has starred in some of the big hits in India and abroad, such as The Namesake (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2009), Life of Pi (2012) and Jurassic World (2015)

Chetan Bhagat- Called the “biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history”, Bhagat has ruled the bestseller charts since his first book, Five Point Someone (2004)