Few actors in Indian cinema display the kind of finesse in acting that veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has. In a Career spanning more than 40 years, Naseer has acted in a variety of roles, making him a stand-out artist among generations of actors. He likewise stays one of the most difficult to-satisfy on-screen characters in the business. On his birthday today, a look at why audiences are in awe of his craft.
Standard Indian film is to a great extent celebratory in nature – lauding the temperances of our lifestyle, praising our past, and confident of things to come. Once in a while does it hold up a mirror to ourselves to demonstrate to us our faultlines, imperfections, and everything.
During the 1970s came a lot of executives, most noticeable being names like Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, who were eager to do only that. For breathing life into their accounts, they required fine actors. Venturing into their reality, was a group of four of actors who might go down as parallel film's best – Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Om Puri, and Naseeruddin Shah.
In movies like Aakrosh, Nishant, Bhumika, Manthan, Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai, Bazaar and Junoon, Naseer changed the meaning of acting with life-like depictions of everyday life, far expelled from the make-conviction universe of standard film.
With movies like Masoom, Naseeruddin denoted a takeoff from Benegal-Nihalani school of filmmaking and started making in – streets into standard Hindi movies. The Shekhar Kapur directorial was a great upper white collar class urban Indian family's story of adoration, selling out and compromise. In later years, he would catch up his strategic move into Hindi movies with motion pictures like Tridev and Mohra.
Naseer was not just about genuine film. Parody and comedies easily fell into place for him. Movies Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron and Katha fall in this class.
This was additionally when Naseer worked together with movie producers like Gulzar, who have effectively conquered any hindrance among art and commerce. Movies like Ijazat and Doordarshan's notorious TV sequential Mirza Ghalib fall in this section.
For the millennial, the name still rings a bell thanks to films Sarfarosh, A Wednesday, The Dirty Picture, Iqbal, Ishqiya to name a few.
What many may not be aware of is that Naseeruddin also runs a theatre group called Motley which has in the past, successfully adapted works of English and Urdu writers.
