Bollywood is always known for its jazz, masala movies, typical Indian style of romance and monopolistic fights but it also has the softer side where our Indian actors have delivered exceptional acting performances which also earned them international acclaims. Here are some of the brilliant performances from last 2 decades.

Amitabh Bachchan

Megastar of India has countless mind blowing performances in his legendary career. He is the actor who has won most number of national awards, he has done every character right from an angry young man in “Agneepath” to an abnormal kid in paa. At the age of 70 he is still going strong and surprising everyone. Here is his most famous performance in the classic “Agneepath”.

Nana Patekar

Nana Patekar is one of the finest actors in India who can play diverse characters. He started his career with critically acclaimed movies like ‘Salaam Bombay’ , ‘Parida’ by playing negative roles. And then his best performance came in “Kranthiveer” with which he won numerous acclaims from critics and audience. He is now known as the best dialogue deliverer in Bollywood. Check out his famous scene from “Krathiveer”.

Ajay Devgn

Ajay Devgn has always been one of the most talented actors of the modern bollywood. After a decent debut through “Phool aur Khante” he did some ordinary movies but after that he took everyone by surprise by his performance in Zakham which earned him National Award.And then he just got better and his best performance till date has come in the biopic “The Legend of Bhagat Singh” with which he again proved that he is in the league of elite actors of Bollywood.

Shahrukh Khan

King Khan who undoubtedly is the bollywood’s king in terms of fans and the kind of following he has but lot of people often questioned him for his acting ability but he had proved more than twice that he is up in the elite league of acting by his superb performances in Swades and Chak de India. Here is the scene from Chak De India.

Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor made his debut through “Saawariya” showed us the glimpse of how well he can act but then later he was more involved in commercially successful movies which did not ask much from him in terms of acting. And then came “Rockstar” in which Ranbir’s acting was sensational and won him many awards. Best of him came in the song “Nadaan Parindey” where he truly lived in the character as a Rockstar.