When beauties turned beasts in Bollywood thrillers

Considered to be one of the most contemporary photogenic stars, Manisha Koirala is nothing short of a dream girl.

But for once, this flawless beauty decided to take up rifles in the valley of Kashmir as she played a terrorist accomplice.

While initially Dil Se presented her as a mere accomplice, it was only the climax which saw her cheating on her lover as she played a self-determined suicide bomber that gave out the crude truth.

While most actresses justify their reel life villainous streaks with aggression for love or money, Urmila chose to settle for pure joy.

Keeping the audiences glued to the screen for hours in Kaun, Miss Matondkar left everyone stunned when instead of being a victim, she turned out to be the victimizer who killed for plain fun.

The most slender slayer in the history of Bollywood, we must say.

The one woman who has always been unapologetic about her actions, be it off-screen on on-screen, Kareena’s ruthless side in Fidaa was a complete shocker.

First a enchantress and then and extortionist, the essence of her character in the film truly left a chill down every unconditional lover’s spine.

Perhaps, she is what they call a beautiful killer.

Not just innocent looking actresses, but even the most elegant of them find it hard to resist the charm of playing a negative character.

What else explains Aishwarya’s not one, but two mysteriously negative characters? While her anti-institution role in Khakee may be inspired by the lure of winning an award like Kim Bassinger did for the Hollywood counterpart, Dhoom 2 was a different ballgame together.

Stylish, subtle and taking the audiences for a ride till the end about with whom her loyalties lay, Ash aka Sunheri was Bollywood’s most sensuous villain till date.

It has been a century old norm in Bollywood for lead actresses to sit pretty while vamps steal the show with their display of power.

But exceptions to the same have seen some of the most beautiful and talented stars shocking us with their sudden villainous revelation.

Even as heroines these days get themselves busy with action stunts, it is Katrina Kaif who took everyone by surprise recently.