Salman Khan: A Stylish Actor Par Excellence

 Salman Khan

(A Stylish Actor Par Excellence)

Audience likes two types of actors on-screen. One is who gets into the role, understands it and makes it alive by great performance. Other type of actor is the one who carries the film on his shoulders with the help of his style, larger than life image and charisma. As far as Salman Khan is concerned he is the blend of both of these. He plays the perfect character in the script and portrays it on screen realistically. He also has his unique style and histrionics which he displays in most of his movies. It includes the style of rubbing his nose, the typical dance steps and intensity and emotions in his eyes. Most of his fans crave for all these antics performed by him on screen. And who would forget the famous display of his masculine well built physique.

At present his age is running sixty and still he gives a tough time to much younger actors as far as fitness is concerned. He could be seen even performing the back- flip at this age. His first movie ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’ was released in 1988. In this movie he played a second role of Farukh Shaikh’s brother and Rekha’s spoiled brother-in-law. In this debut role he displayed superb acting skills. His very presence in the few early scenes after his entry annoys one a lot. Same irritatuon gives way to love for him when he grows closer to his sister-in-law i.e. Rekha in the scenes coming later on.

The year 1989 proved to be a game changer for Salman Khan. In this year his most iconic movie till this titled ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ was released. With ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ a Star was born and rest is the history.

One of the most important aspects of the career of Salman Khan is that he has played variety of roles on-screen. He started with as a romantic hero but during later times he equally displayed a macho performance in action packed movies. In films like ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’, ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’, ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’, ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’, ‘Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya’ and many more he was seen as a cute, innocent and romantic boy next door. In films like ‘Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai’ and ‘Tere Naam’ he powerfully displayed an emotional side of the character. Especially, the suffering, innocence, agony,  annoyance and anger displayed in ‘Tere Naam’ has no parallels. Anybody who watches ‘Tere Naam’ is bound to cry. No, everybody who watches ‘Tere Naam’ hundred percent cries. What does it indicate? It proves the fact that Salman Khan has acted so deeply and got under the skin of the character so much that audience gets not only connected with him but merges with him emotionally. This is nothing but a sheer acting skill.

Salman Khan must be credited with bringing back the Action genre with big bang with  films like ‘Wanted’ and ‘Dabanng’. Later on he did actioned packed movies like ‘Kick’ and ‘Ek  Tha Tiger’ with equal tenacity. In films like ‘Sultan’ he was so much immersed in the character that one feels as if he is not an actor but a true wrestler.

Comedy is another genre where Salman has proved his talent greatly. Here one can mention his comic roles from the films like ‘Saajan’, ‘Andaz Apna Apna’, ‘Hello Brother’, ‘Ready’, etc. In film like ‘Saajan’ mostly revolves around Sanjay Dutt. The theme of the movie deals with platonic and pure love between a poet ,Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit. Hence, Sanjay Dutt was bound to get more attention of a poet like Sanjay Dutt but still Salman manages to steal the show, thanks to his acting skills. One could never forget his freshness, expressions during songs and of course the flawless comedy from ‘Saajan’. Hence, it should be aptly said that ‘Saajan’ is a trajectory of success due to all  three lead  actors viz. Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit.

In nutshell, whichever role Salman Khan has played till this date has looked very real and convincing on screen. Be it emotional, comedy, action, innocent, annoyance, anger, seriousness, tenacity, intensity, melodramatic, etc.  Salman has always given a stellar performance. But, most of the times he has said that he is not a great actor, which is not true. It is his greatness that he does not call himself as a good actor and instead gives credit to others. After all who is a good actor,  a good actor is an actor who makes audience feel the character on screen a real one and genuinely authentic. Measured by this yardstick one has to accept that Salman Khan is a superb performer and an  actor par excellence.

In his sixtieth year he is acting in one of the most awaited films of his career  titled ‘Sikandar’. This movie is directed by ‘Ghajini’  fame talented Tamil Director A. R. Murugadoss. According to reports ‘Sikandar’ is slated to be released in March 2025. We are confident that as usual Salman Khan will definitely give an impeccable performance in ‘Sikandar’ as well. Love you Salman Khan you are ‘Sabka Bhaijaan’.