India, April 18 -- Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane (2007). When Jane Austen died in 1817, her family censored many parts of her life and thought it's best she was remembered as docile Aunt Jane. But Hathaway reminds us that she was also an ambitious, passionate young woman, once in love with Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy). Her lines are almost missiles: "What value is there in an introduction when you cannot even remember my name, indeed can barely stay awake in my presence."

Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice (1995). Why is Colin Firth the perfect Mr Darcy? Is it his permanent brooding look or his awkward aloofness? Or how dignified he is even when he emerges from a lake, white shirt almost transparent, and bumps into Elizabeth Bennett who's visi...