From Alia Bhatt to Akshay Kumar, 5 actors playing award-worthy real-life characters in 2022

The  Biopic boom claims 2022 like no other year in recent times. Here are my 5 favourite real-life  characters coming to life this year.

 

From Alia Bhatt to Akshay Kumar, 5 actors playing award-worthy real-life characters in 2022

 

1. Alia Bhatt in Gangubai Kathiawadi:  Career-changing. From now on everything for  Alia Bhatt is going to be before and after  Gangubai Kathiawadi.  From her body language to her spoken language, she is transformed into this ballsy Madame of a brothel who makes men pee in their pants with one twitch of her eyebrow. How does this  pintsized actress manage to be so  spectacularly larger-than-life? Alia reminds us of Shabana Azmi in Godmother. Alia now wants to play another real-life character and I have good reason to  believe that her godfather Karan Johar is all set to cast Alia as Ma Sheela. That would be the mother of all  bio-pics.

 

2. Kartik Aaryan  In Captain India:  In Hansal's Mehta's  biopic set in the Indian army, Kartik Aaryan who has been climbing from strength-to-strength  is all set to play his first   non-fictional character. He plays an IAF  officer who masterminded a  daring real-life rescue  mission. This is  for a  film to be directed by Hansal Mehta.The  master of biopics, Hansal has earlier made films based on real-life characters such as Shahid, Aligarh, Omerta and Scam 1992. After  the stupendous success of his Harshad Mehta  bio-series, Hansal who has been  continuously working with brilliant actors like Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkummar Rao is keen to do a big-screen biopic with a saleable star. For Kartik whose career  has been rapidly rising on  the box office scale, a Hansal Mehta film is  another chance to prove himself as an actor after Ram Madhvani’s Dhamaka .

 

3. Akshay Kumar in Prithviraj Chauhan: It is a first for  Akshay Kumar. The actor   plays  a  real-life  historical figure  for the first time and one of the truest, most beloved  heroes  from Indian history who fought for the country and love in equal measures. Interestingly, this homage to nobility and nationalism comes just after Akshay's  sociopathic outlaw’s act in  Bachchan Pandey where the actor plays a complete  scumbag. In fact, the actor had been advised to postpone the perversities of Pandey until Prithviraj hit theatres. But better sense doesn’t always prevail.

 

4. Taapsee Pannu in Shabaash Mithu: The story  of  the Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj will see Taapsee swinging the bat to hit the ball out of  the park. She has learnt the game of cricket from scratch, like she learnt  hockey for Soorma. The level of dedication is so fierce  that one fears Taapsee may give up acting and take up cricket as her primary profession. Director Srijit Mukherjee tells me of Taapsee's ferocious  determination and dedication  for getting  it right. She reminds us of Sushant Singh Rajput's  fierce commitment to playing Dhoni.

 

5. Madhavan In Rocketry: The Nambi Effect: The Tamil-Hindi superstar who has completed 28 years as a leading man, now plays the veteran space scientist Nambi Narayanan in the biopic that Maddy directs. Like Nambi Narayanan, Madhavan has  learnt to construct  a rocket from scratch. In 1994,  Narayanan, a space-research scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) had been falsely accused of espionage. Madhavan delves deep into every aspect of  Narayanan’s life without apology. There’s really no point in doing a biopic unless the complete truth is told. The Nambi Narayanan biopic is being readied for release simultaneously  in  Hindi, Tamil and  English.Also

 

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