Why did the early 2000's actors fail?

There were SO MANY actors and actresses who debuted in the first decade of the 2000's especially the first half 5 years. IMO Hrithik, Kareena, Katrina and Priyanka are the only ones who are successful from that era, with Shahid and Bipasha barely making it.

Among this list only John Abraham deserved what he didn't get...rest all got what they deserved.😛

^^But wasn't Amrita Rao talented too??

I sometimes wonder the same too. Most probably the Khans were raging strong during that time. People were still stuck in the nostalgia of the 90's. So the newbies couldn't make a mark. Now the Khans have slowed down not in terms of star power or mass appeal but in terms of the number of movies they do. Khans come up with only the festival releases. The audiences have to watch the movies of the new actors during the rest of the year.

Most of them are not fit for bw!

Some of them are really unlucky..like Lara!

Originally posted by: Hydro123

Every generation has only 2-3 stars. Rest all fade away. Even in 90s there were many failures.

No talent, no good looks, bad choice of movies, and just some bad luck. I think for all of them it is some variation or combination of these. In some cases maybe all of the above.

Abhishek Bachchan and Amrita Rao are the two that are most surprising to me as I do feel that both have talent. Also they definitely had a period of success. Abhishek was actually doing pretty good in the mid 2000s. Amrita Rao had success in both traditional girly role in Vivaah and a modern rebel in MHN. I'm not sure why she disappeared.

Vivek Oberois's niche was not lead roles. He had better success with negative, or anti hero roles. But he had the typical ambitions of wanting to be a big hero and just didn't succeed. I don't know if other than Saathiya any of his other roles as the romantic lead succeeded.

John Abraham I think is moderately successful. Isn't he part of the Houseful and Welcome franchises?

Aftab aur tusshar kapoor were a joke from beginning 😆

Originally posted by: mintyblue

But in 90's there were a whole bunch of them who did well, not just 2-3. It wasn't just the Khans- there were Akki, Ajay, Govinda, Saif as well among heroes. Among heroines there were Kajol, Madhuri, Juhi, Sonali, Tabu, Urmila, Manisha, and Karisma - followed by Rani, Preity, Aishwarya -all created a niche of their own.

Just see the quantitative difference between them and the actors of the 2000's. they all sustained for 10 years, at least, whereas the 2000 stars just faded out in no time