Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Emraan Hashmi have embraced multi-starrers, character roles and powerful antagonists instead of clinging to the solo hero image. His last release, Sikandar, managed a domestic lifetime collection of around `100 crore but failed to generate the frenzy once associated with a Salman Khan film. Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna, R. Madhavan, Arjun Rampal and Emraan Hashmi have embraced character roles and villains, playing to their strengths instead of competing with younger stars. “Sanjay, Sunny enjoyed long runs as conventional leading heroes. The Second InningsInstead of clinging to the solo hero image, actors like Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Emraan Hashmi have reinvented themselves.