Hard to beat performances in Indian cinema
My favourites:
Hard to beat roles and performances:
Actor female:
Nutan: Bandini and Sujata
Nargis: Mother India
Meena Kumari: Pakeezah and Saheb Bibi aur Ghulam.
Suchitra Sen: Mamta and Aandhi
Waheeda Rehman: Guide and Khamoshi
Zeenat Aman: Hare rama hare krishna
Hema Malini: Seeta aur Geeta
Dimple Kapadia: Bobby
Rekha: Umrao Jaan Ada
Mumtaz: Aaina
Sridevi: Sadma and Chaalbaaz
Smita Patil: Chakra, Bhumika and Arth
Shabana Azmi: Ankur, Arth and Mandi
Actor male:
Ashok Kumar: Ashirwad and Mili
Dilip Kumar: Ganga Jamuna and Ram aur shyam
Balraj Sahni: Do beegha zameen, Kabuliwalah and Garm Hawa
Dev Anand: Guide
Raj Kapoor: Abdullah
Manoj Kumar: Purab aur paschim and Roti Kapda makaan
Mehmood: Padosan and Kunwara Baap
Kishore Kumar: Pyar kiye jaa and Padosan
Dharmendra: Satyakam and Chupke chupke
Rajesh Khanna: Anand, Aap ki kasam and Amar prem
Sanjeev Kumar: Koshish, Manchali, Aandhi, Mausam, Pati patni aur woh, Swarg Narak, Shatranj ke khiladi and Trishul
Amitabh Bachchan: Deewar and Agnipath
Mithun Chakraborty: Hum Paanch and Agnipath.
Naseeruddin Shah: Junoon, Sparsh and Chakra
Farooq Shaikh: Katha
Raj Babbar: Insaaf ka tarazu and Nikaah
Kamala Hasan: Sadma, Pushpak and Nayagan
Anupam Kher: Saaransh
In all these great performances by these revered actors, there is one small cameo I have always been fascinated by in the movie “Deewaar” enacted by Mr. Satyadev Dubey.
Whenever I see that sequence and the way Dubey Sahab has enacted it … I get bowled over by the sheer intensity this actor has put in, in that 2 minute appearance on screen and one is made to understand that its not the length which should matter to the actor but the charaterization matters and also how the director would explore that small character and make it all big and extraordinary.
Is it like this always? or Is it some chemistry which works between the director and the actor?
Hats off to Mr. Yash Chopra and Dubey sahab for that mind blowing sequence and performance in Deewaar.
Most of us actors are into this business of acting becoz of these above gentleman.
Right from childhood .. its been Rajesh khanna or Dharam ji or Amitabh Bachchan .. some imbibing their mannerism .. some their style and some their acting prowess.
Salute to them and salute to their performances.
