The Talent That Needs To Be Catered- Kay Kay Menon
Updated : July 09, 2018 05:48 PM IST
Indian actor Kay Kay Menon has proved himself to be one of the most promising actors.
Kay Kay Menon’s first big screen debut was Naseem (1995). He played a minor role in the film. Next, he got the lead role in Bhopal Express (1999) but somehow the film went unnoticed.
Menon starred in Anurag Kashyap’s debut film, Paanch but unfortunately, the film never got released due to objection from Central Board of Film Certification for film’s obscene language, violence, and also the way drug abuse was depicted. It was later released in some film festivals but never got a theatrical release. Kay Kay played the best villainous role in the film.
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Although ‘Deewar’ and ‘Silsiilay’ did not work well for Kay Kay Menon, ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’, ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Sarkar’ gave Menon his break with ‘Sarkar’ earning him a nomination for the Best Performance in a Negative Role.
Menon started his career in theatre productions. He got his first theatre break in ‘Mahatma vs Gandhi’. It was a role opposite Naseeruddin Shah. Kay Kay Menon played the character of young Prime Minister in a Zee TV show ‘Pradhan Mantri’ (2001) for which he was highly appreciated portraying his amazing and skillful acting.
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From acting as Ranjeet, an unfaithful husband in ‘Life is a Metro’ to playing Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh in ‘Shaurya’ and his most notable character Khurram Singh in ‘Haider’ that got him a Filmfare Award of Best Supporting Actor, makes him one of the finest actors in Bollywood.
Films like ‘The Ghazi Attack’, ‘Gulaal’, ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.’ portray the versatility of the actor.
Indian film director Vishal Bhardwaj, during a press interaction, describes Kay Kay Menon as ‘one of the finest and underrated actors of the country’. Kay Kay Menon has played the character of Khurram Singh, a sly villain in Vishal Bhardwaj’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘Haider’, which was critically appreciated.
His on-screen charisma, an edge to dialogue delivery and the way he gives life to the character he plays shows the tremendous amount of talent in him.
“I don’t play roles, I play people. Because roles are finite in nature. So it doesn’t matter to be what the person’s profession is, I am playing the person.” - Kay Kay Menon
Kay Kay Menon has always given the best of the performances in everything he does but still, he does not get the stardom he deserves. Most of his roles are seen to be portraying a negative part in the film, even though he acted completely fine in comedy films like ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.’
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“My whole aim in life is that my work should outlive me. That’s my aim” - Kay Kay Menon
Kay Kay Menon, whether he is playing a supporting role or any other minor character, has always given the fullest to his work. Taking his characters of the films to explore new edges, Kay Kay Menon still remains an underrated talent that Indian Cinema needs to recognize and give justice to the quality and content acting.