However, she used her oomph and showcased some acting chops in Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly - we hope she arrives. Surveen ChawalaĪ TV veteran and know for her work in Punjabi films, she grabbed the eye-balls with the racy Hate Story 2. Tahir Raj Bhasin impressed plenty of people with the way he held his own, and made a sinister character out of Walt. Pradeep Sarkar’s Mardaani saw the rise of a particular young kid who is the head of a human-trafficking syndicate, engaging in a battle of wits with Rani Mukherjee – a police officer.
You don’t really expect exciting antagonists from Yashraj.
He also cracked us up with his bumbling performance in Phas Gaye Re Obama! We wish to see more of him. Manu made a splash in Bollywood with Dibakar Banerji’s Oye lucky lucky oye! as Abhay Deol’s sidekick ‘Bangali’. Adequately supported by Ayushmann, Bhoomi won everyone’s hearts with her performance. Making her debut opposite Ayushman Khurrana as the pleasantly plump Sandhya – she broke all stereotypes of what a mainstream Hindi film actress should look like to carry a ‘hit film’. We hope to see many more brilliant performances before she is put down as an ‘art-house actress’. After that, she followed it up with films like the critically-acclaimed Hunterrr and Badlapur.
Radhika Apteįamous for her sensational contribution to regional cinema (Bengali, Tamil, Marathi) she made a quiet, beautiful debut in Shor: In The City. We compile a list of some of the most significant actors in mainstream Hindi films, who we hope eventually get their due in the future. The stars walk away with the massive paycheck, and these actors slowly become ‘has-beens’.
There’s a horde of actors who play supporting roles to the protagonists, give the film a new lease of credibility and yet they go unnoticed. And if you’re a star, it doesn’t really matter if you can act. If you’re an actor, you don’t need any stardom. Yes, they’re mutually exclusive, but extremely necessary to survive in Bollywood. Bollywood sells on the brand of an actor’s stardom.