RANKED: 6 Best Performances of Abhishek Bachchan

Despite having been accredited as someone who never had the fortune of success by his side, Abhishek Bachchan has still found his place in a lot of Indian hearts. While it took him a while to come out of his rather preposterous career choices at the start, Junior B did resurrect his Bollywood run with some promise. As luck would have it, the actor soon ran out of innovations and was virtually eliminated from the solo hero race.

In a career spanning over a decade and a half, Abhishek may not have been able to set the cash registers on fire, he sure has delivered performances worthy of reminiscence. In fact, in a loaded multi starrer like Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, his portrayal of a forbidden husband remained one of the highlights of the film.

So as we run through his cinematic graph that marks a lot of ups and downs, here are 6 of Abhishek’s best performances ranked:

6 – Bluffmaster

As hard as it gets to not like this sweet cinema experience, Abhishek’s performance plays a heavy role in giving bluffmaster a quiet and simplistic touch. As a conman fighting his own battles, he lifted the very element of the character and engrossed audiences from the word go. Bluffmaster was one of the easiest views to sit through back in 2005.

5 – Dostana

At a time when projection of gay characters on the big screens was fueling dimensional debates, Abhishek’s goofy act in Dostana did make us see its lighter side. He was eccentrically funny in Dostana that eventually ended up being one of the main reasons for film’s success. He repeated the same feat in Bol Bachchan and was able to bring the house down once again.

4 – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

In the core of a cast board that had names like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji and Preity Zinta, Abhishek probably won most hearts and became the show stopper. The maturity, sensibility, amicability he brought with himself in this Karan Johar directorial was something that didn’t go unnoticed.

3 – Sarkar

One of the few deep characters he’s played in his life, Shankar Nagre in Sarkar was quite a superlative one. As a son torn between his family duties and political service, he was simply outstanding to say the least. Complimenting his own father Big B at most junctions, he was able to deliver a solid show in an already performance driven movie directed by Ram Gopal Verma.

2 – Yuva

The rare character that had him carry different layers and portray in the best way possible, Abhishek Bachchan in Yuva was as real as he could get. Attempting a character tipping heavy on the negative shads, he was realistically scary. While he deservingly got the Filmfare award for Best supporting actor for this role, even Mani Ratnam was supremely impressed by his performance.

1 – Guru

It was perhaps to do with his fabulous display in Yuva that Mani Ratnam cast him as a lead in what would have been for him a career defining movie, Guru. For the effort he put in taking that role from ideation to screen, Abhishek deserved all the recognition he didn’t get. Essaying a character that ages through the film in progression isn’t easy and Junior B pulled it off and how! From whistle worthy dialogues to delivering one of the toughest monologues in that decade, Guru belonged to Abhishek Bachchan and he deserved a feather like that in his hat.

Did you know Abhishek also has a unique record of making a hat-trick for winning the Filmfare best supporting actor award? 2004 – Yuva, 2005 – Sarkar and 2006 – KANK!

We could do with a lot more of his work, can’t we?