In the remake of Bharatan's Thevar Magan, Anil Kapoor was assigned the Herculean task of living up to Kamal Haasan.

Kapoor, being the perfectionist that he is (like another AK-Aamir Khan) prepared himself rigorously for the role. For the first half of the film, he shed the required kilos, grew his hair and beard only to put the kilos back on for the second part.

His hard work did not go unnoticed and Virasat won him dollops of critical and public adulation.

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