Thursday, May 10, 2012

Unnoticed names in Bollywood - 3

Here we dig one layer deep into the world of Bollywood Character actors. This is a universe in itself. The more you explore it, the deeper it goes.
This is the world of uncredited characters and performances - police commissioner, constable, judge, a college principal, scientist in a tacky lab, goons and bandits, villains and secondary sidekicks.
It's a strange place for these guys- Usually people work in Cinema to earn name and fame. And here are these guys- who've worked in loads of movies - only to appear uncredited.

Since there's nothing much to mention, I'll try to put them in different categories and note their 
specialties. This list is just the beginning. I'm sure you'll remember more faces as you scroll down.

Character Actors -

 Subbiraj 
Judge ,
a sincere dad who often gets killed
Anil Nagrath
Judge in A grade movies.
 Goon, 
villain in B grade movies.

Rana Jung Bahadur
Professional Rapist, Corrupt police man,
side villain, Gurkha.

Name - Kamaldeep  Category - Doctor, Principal, Police commissioner ( not inspector) and Judge.
Kamaldeep

Doctor, Principal,
 Police commissioner and Judge.
Ramesh Goel
Cop, Aam aadmi

Manmauji
Comedy sidekick
Kishore Bhatt - Paanwala guy

Mahesh Raj
Multi role actor. From
police to Rapist.

Kedar Sehgal multipurpose actor



Akash Khurana- Helpless father

Harish Magan - Just another guy
Suresh Chatwal - drunkard father

Vikas Anand - judge, doctor etc.


Birbal - secondary Comedian


Charlie - secondary Comedian


Amrit Patel - comic character







 Baddies


Let's look at some eternal henchmen of Hindi Cinema. All of these guys have the dubious distinction of -
a) Getting killed by the hero in a 1:1 fight scene, if they're lucky
b) Getting killed by the good guys in the ultimate or penultimate fight scene
c) getting killed, in general.
The privilege lies in above mentioned order. Saving Bob Christo, none of them have their own identity. I'll try to categories them nonetheless.



 
Rami Reddy - the southern evil
Deep Dhillon - From goon to Level A villain
Bob Christo- the  Original Videshi
Gavin Packard - Videshi No. 2
Gurbachan Singh - Level 2 villain
Jack Gaud - Level 2 villain
Dan Dhanoa - Level 2 villain

Manek Irani - The price fighter or bodyguard
Ajay Agarwal - Single most feared ghost in Bollywood
Vishvajeet Pradhan - Villain Level 2

 

PS - Feel free to add anyone in the comments, I'll try to look for him/her and update the post!








3 comments:

Shakti said...

Thanks a lot. This list gives me the names of many I wanted to know. Many Thanks

Babbles said...

Super stuff

Unknown said...

Very praiseabel initiative

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