Bollywood actors who donned the chef's hat for a role

Bollywood has an array of movies where the lead actor or the hero turned chef for the role. Known to be quite an eccentric lot of professionals, the role of a chef does offer the actor to show his capabilities on a different level. While beating up a bunch of villians is a quintessential part of being a hero, whipping up delicious food on screen is a sure shot way of winning over the audience's hearts! From Amitabh Bachchan to Saif Ali Khan, these actors played the role of a chef to the hilt. While Saif is going to do the Bollywood revamp of the Hollywood flick 'Chef' soon, let us check out a few of our top notch heroes who donned the chef's hat!

The original Bollywood superstar, Rajesh Khanna played a cook and a do-it-all person around the house in this movie which is about a family who cannot keep a cook around for long as they tend to mistreat the servants. Rajesh Khanna as Raghu, not only wins the heart of the family but also proves himself to be the saviour in disguise.

The great Amitabh Bachchan plays a successful chef and owner of a famous Indian restuarant in London. He falls in love with Tabu who is less than half his age when she criticizes his cooking and has a tough time making her father, played by Paresh Rawal, agree to their marriage.

A rich man's son turns into a chef and house-servant to woo the family of the girl he loves. The amazing Govinda and Karisma Kapoor created magic on screen in this movie.

Duplicate was a double dose of King Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, in which one character was a simple chef and the other was a hardcore criminal. Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre had added the spice in the movie.

Akshay Kumar is a small time vegetable cutter, who is made into a saviour by some people from a village in China. In the movie, Akshay fights the main villain in a technique resembling vegetable cutting.

Saif Ali Khan goes to Australia to become an architect and ends up being a chef. He falls for Preity Zinta when they decide to live in together.

Aditya Roy Kapoor played the role of Tariq Haider who owned the Big Boss Haidari Kebab hotel in Lucknow. Parineeti and Anupam Kher con him into paying them money for the dowry. However, love finally wins for Aditya and Parineeti.

Kunal Kapoor played the role of Omi who returns from London to revive the dhaba of his grandfather, Khurana Dhaba. Caught in the midst of finding himself and the secret recipe of the famous 'Chicken Khuran', Omi manages to beat all the odds and even wins back his lady love.