It’s sad to see only 4 reviews written on ajay devgan, The guy has received two national awards, been here for quite sometime now in bollywood, but still don’t get his name called as one of the best actors of bollywood. He breathes the life into the character in the film khaake where he plays a don named ansari and even overshadows amitabh in the scene in the middle of the film.
Born on 2nd april 1970 ajay is a son of action director veeru devgan, so for him it wasn’t a problem getting into the filmline. His father even helped cheographed the action scenes for the film sholay. AJay insists doing his own stunts in his films and he has broken his ankle twice. One other thing I like about ajay devgan is he stays away from interviews, parties and news as well. People like salman, sanjay dutt, shakti kapoor etc are on news for various reasons.
AJay’s entry to bollywood was his first hit film phool aur kaante where he plays a son of don named nageshwar played by amrish puri, and ajay in his first film doesn’t look like that he’s a newcomer. He received his first award for the best debut. The film had good action by his father veeru devgan. Jigar was his next film the film is a copy of hollywood film called bloodport staring vandame, the movie was a hit and there was news about ajay devgan and karishma kapoor dating each other at that time.
Then ajay devgan had bad years with flop films like sangram, ek hi raasta, bedardi, divyashakti, platform, shaktiman, dhanwan, dil hai betaab wasn’t working for him at all people had forgotten about him. Then he was signed in the film diwale by harry baweja the film went on to be a superhit and ajay played this mental person in the film and does a good job, although harry baweja films always had good music also. Next were three more hits film. Vijay path, suhaag and naajayaz were all went to do good business at the box office. Ajay proved to be a good fighter in all of his films.
Ajay is one of the best in doing emotional performances it started from the film jaan directed by raj kanwar where he plays a killer, Ajay gave one of his best performances in this film. I hated his performance in the film diljale the movie bombed also it had one of my favorite songs by udit narayan in the film, where ajay sings it in a college campus ho nahin sakta ho nahin sakta.
Ajay’s performance in ishq proved he couldn’t do comedy roles, that’s what I noticed he was sleepwalking in that film, I began to like ajay devgan from the film pyar tu hona hi tha directed by aneez bazme. The same year he recieved a national award for the film zakham, I thought the year 1998 was ajay devgan year and manoj bajpai year, but the award was given to shahrukh khan for kuch kuch hota hai, ajay’s been robbed the first for filmfare awards.
Next is another emotional performance in the film kache dhaage where he plays aftaab, that one thing good about the film the other is the haunting music by nusrat fateh ali khan with the right dose of punjabi words in the songs is the best thing happened to the film. HIs performance in hum dil de chuke sanam won him lot of applause, although the movie was copied from woh 7 din, salman was cool in the film as well, but 1999 was the year of sanjay dutt.
Next one is one of my favorite performances by ajay devgan in the film thakshak, where he plays ishaan singh this is very underrated movie and his underrated performance also, but I thought rahul bose did quite a job playing a psychotic character in the film. I thought deewane was also a good movie with a double of ajay devgan, the film has one of my favorite soundtracks also. His role as bulwa in the film lajja is also noteworthy and his friendship with rajkumar santoshi with this film.
Then came the year 2002, that was the devgan year with hits like company, deewange, and his national award winning performance for the film legend of bhagat singh proved ajay devgan to be a classic actor. Just the next 2003 he had a hit film bhoot with ramgopal varma, gaangajal with prakhah jha, and qayamat which I thought was a pretty dumb movie and should have been a flop was a hit. 2004 was still a good year for him with a hit film khaake and masti thought he had a small role and his role in yuva was well done also. AJay had some more flop movies in 2005 insaan, blackmail, tango charlie which I thought was exccellent, main aisa hi hoon and shikhar were all flops. One of the stupiest role ajay’s ever took is in the film tarzaan, I caught about 20 minutes of that movies and that was enough seeing ajay devgan being invisible and driving a car.
But 2005 was the year where ajay gives his best performance in the film apahran, which I thought deserved all the awards it could, his portrayal of common man becoming a don is excellent, just like sanjay dutt’s in the film vaastav scared at first evil at last.
Ajay devgan has a lot of movies coming this year omkara with saif ali khan and vivek oberoi.
golmaal which is a comedy with sharman joshi.
beenam with bhumika chawla
saman with akshay kumar and nana patekar directed by rajkumar santoshi.
gulel with sushmita sen
london dreams with salman khan and urmila
Other big news for ajay is he is playing the role of veeru in the remake of film sholay along with mohit alawat playing jai, amitabh playing gabbar, mohanlal playing thakur, sunil shetty playing sambha, rajpal yadav playing surma bhopali, katrina kaif playing radha, rani mukherje playing basanti. It’s be a change in ajay devgan’s career for doing comedy and I know he could do this role well also.
my 6 favorite roles.
Apharan
pyar tu hona hi tha
zakhm
company
the legend of bhagat singh
thakshak