Nana Patekar recently revealed that Anil Kapoor got him dropped from Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parinda. The director asked him to play villain in the 1989 film. Directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Parinda was released in 1989 and became a cult classic. The crime drama had Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor as two brothers…
A villain was charging Rs 1 crore per film when top stars like the Khans and Sridevi did not get more than Rs 10 lakh In the early 90s, Chiranjeevi famously became the first Indian actor to charge Rs 1 crore per film, when he beat reigning superstar Amitabh Bachchan to that mark. Soon, actors…
This actor was famous for playing Narad muni in 61 films but found stardom as a villain Villainy in Indian films is as old as cinema. The first talkie of Indian cinema – Alam Ara – had Prithviraj Kapoor play the bad guy. But this was 1931, still a decade before actors became stars for…
Made in just Rs 25 lakh, this film became Bollywood’s most profitable film ever, beating RRR, Sholay, Mughal-e-Azam, Pathaan, and Dangal In the 1970s, Hindi cinema was discovering angst and violence in a western manner for the first time. The emergence of Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Young Man as well as the rising fame…
Mohnish Bahl had almost quit Bollywood when Salman Khan recommended his name to play villain in Maine Pyar Kiya. His daughter Pranutan Bahl’s debut film Notebook was also produced by Salman Khan. Born on August 14, 1961 in Mumbai to popular actress Nutan and Lieutenant Commander Rajnish Bahl, Mohnish Bahl is a popular Indian actor….
Byeon Woo-seok has won hearts as the most loveable character in the recently concluded ‘Lovey Runner’. The actor had fans swooning over his charming act as of K-pop idol Ryu Sun-jae. However, before turning into a heartthrob for this drama, Byeon Woo-seok essayed the role of the main antagonist in a famous Korean drama. The…
Mahesh Anand who worked in 300 films was very lonely, he had no friends and no money. He was found dead sitting on the sofa with a bottle of alcohol. Late Bollywood actor Mahesh Anand was one of the most popular villains of the 90s. He was known for his work in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu…
The highest paid villain in Indian cinema may end up earning over Rs 200 crore from a single film Villains, for long, were typecast in Hindi cinema. Character actors with certain traits and swagger were often shoehorned into negative roles. Indeed, the likes of Jeevan, Pran, Amrish Puri, Prem Chopra, and Shakti Kapoor all became…
In the new series, Bad Cop, Anurag Kashyap plays a menacing villain Kazbe, who crosses paths with an honest cop, Karan, and what follows form the rest of the plot. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap loves playing baddie on-screen, and he returns in his favourite avatar in a new web series- Bad Cop. On Friday, Disneyplus Hotstar…
Fans adored Farah Khan‘s film ‘Main Hoon Na,’ which boasted a stellar cast including Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Zayed Khan, Amrita Rao, Naseeruddin Shah, Suniel Shetty, and Boman Irani. Farah revealed in a chat with IFTDA Official’s YouTube channel that she had approached Naseeruddin Shah for a villainous role, but he declined.Farah revealed during…
