100 years of Hindi Cinema, 100 best Modern Bollywood Performances

 

100 Years of Bollywood

100 Best Modern Performances

So this one's a lazy blog post...I felt like just putting out the Top 100 Bollywood performances of modern times (2000-2012) over here...this is just a list, if I do ever analyze any of these roles then I will make a link here. So for now its just a list, even then I would compel you to check out these films just because of these performances. 

It was hard to get 100 out of this list but I tried so if you find that I might have missed something out feel free to comment. Remember this list is just from 2000-2012 performances. 

 

1. Ranbir Kapoor as Jordan/Janardhan Jhakar in Rockstar
2. Irrfan Khan as Paan Singh Tomar in Paan Singh Tomar
3. Vidya Balan as Reshma/Silk Smitha in The Dirty Picture
4. Saif Ali Khan as Langda Tyagi in Omkara
5. Tabu as Mumtaz in Chandni Bar
6. Pankaj Kapur as Jahangir Khan in Maqbool
7. Manoj Bajpai as Sardar Khan in Gangs of Wasseypur
8. Rani Mukherjee as Michelle McNally in Black
9. Amitabh Bachchan as Auro in Paa and Debraj Sahai in Black
10. Aamir Khan as Bhuvan in Lagaan
    

 

11. Ajay Devgan as Bhagat Singh in Bhagat Singh
12. Anupam Kher as Kamal Kishore Khosla in Khosla Ka Ghosla
13. Nawazzudin Sidiqui as Faizal Khan in Gangs of Wasseypur and Tehmur in Talaash
14. Hrithik Roshan as Jalalludin Mohammad Akhbar in Jodha Akhbar
15. Paresh Rawal as Baburao Ganpat Rao Apte in Hera Pheri
16. Sharukh Khan as Kabir Khan in Chake De India!
17. Konkona Sen Sharma as Meenakshi S Iyer in Mr and Mrs Iyer
18. Emraan Hashmi as Joginder Parmar in Shanghai
19. Darsheel Safary as Ishaan Awasti in Taare Zameen Par
20. Shreyas Talpade as Iqbal in Iqbal
    

 

21. Priyanka Chopra as Susanna in Saat Khoon Maaf
22. Irrfan Khan as Ranvijay Singh in Haasil
23. Priyanka Chopra as Jilmil Chatterjee in Barfi
24. Ronit Roy as Bhairav Singh in Udaan
25. Vidya Balan as Vidya Bagchi in Kahaani
26. Tabu as Aditi Pandit in Astitva
27. Abhay Deol as Dev in Dev D
28. Sharukh Khan as Mohan Bhargav in Swades
29. Ranbir Kapoor as Murphy 'Barfi'  in Barfi
30. Hrithik Roshan as Ethan Mascarenhas in Guzaarish
    

 

31. Abhishek Bachchan as Gurkant Desai in Guru and Lallan Singh in Yuva
32. Ajay Devgan as Sultan Mirza in Once Upon A Time In Mumbai
33. Sanjay Dutt as Kancha in Agneepath
34. Naseeruddin Shah as Common Man in A Wednesday
35. Abhay Deol as Lovinder 'Lucky' Singh in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
36. Kareena Kapoor as Chameli in Chameli
37. Rishi Kapoor as Rauf Lala in Agneepath and Santosh Duggal in Do Dooni Chaar
38. Nana Patekar as Inspector Sadhu Agashe in Ab Tak Chhappan
39. Boman Irani as Kishan Khurana in Khosla Ka Ghosla
40. Vidya Balan as Krishna in Ishqiya
    

 

41. KK Menon as Dukey Bana in Gulaal
42. Aamir Khan as DJ in Rang De Basanti
43. Arshad Warsi as Circuit in Lage Raho Munnabhai and Munnabhai MBBS
44. Sharukh Khan as Devdas in Devdas
45. Sridevi as Shashi Godbole in English Vinglish
46. Madhavan as Farhan Qureshi in 3 Idiots
47. Vidya Balan as Dr. Vidya in Paa
48. Hrithik Roshan as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan in Agneepath
49. Manoj Bajpai as Veerendra Pratap in Raajneeti
50. Farhan Akthar as Imraan Qureshi in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
    

51. Amitabh Bachchan as Buddhadev Gupta in Cheeni Kum
52. Saif Ali Khan as Sameer 'Sam' in Dil Chahta Hai
53. John Abraham as K in No Smoking
54. Piyush Mishra as Prithvi Bana in Gulaal
55. Jimmy Shergill as Anirrudha Sharma in Haasil
56. Anupam Kher as Prakash Rathod in A Wednesday
57. Ayesha Takia as Meera in Dor
58. Rajeev Khandelwal as Dr. Aamir Ali in Aamir
59. Salman Khan as Chulbul Pandey in Dabaang
60. Amitabh Bachchan as Sarkar in Sarkar
    

 

61. Shahid Kapur as Charlie/Guddu in Kaminey
62. KK Menon as Siddharth Tyabji in Hazaaron Kwahishein Aisi
63. Urmila Matondkar as Sarika Vartak in Ek Haseena Thi
64. Vinay Pathak as Bharat Bhusan in Bheja Fry
65. Deepak Dobriyal as Captain Javed Khan in Shaurya
66. Ranbir Kapoor as Harpreet Singh Bedhi in Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
67. Kangana Ranaut as Tanuja Trivedi in Tanu Weds Manu and Shonali Gujral in Fashion
68. Annu Kapoor as Dr. Baldev Chadda in Vicky Donor
69. Mahie Gill as Madhavi Devi in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
70. Parineeti Chopra as Zoya Qureshi in Ishaqzaade
    

 

71. Farhan Akthar as Aditya Shroff in Rock On!
72. Hrithik Roshan as Rohit Mehra in Koi Mil Gaya
73. Aamir Khan as Ranchordas Shyamaldas Chanchad/ Rancho/Phunksuk Wangdu in 3 Idiots
74. Gulshan Devaiya as Karan Chaudary 'KC' in Shaitan
75. Deepika Padukone as Veronica in Cocktail
76. Urmila Matondkar as Hamida in Pinjar
77. Arjun Rampal as Joseph Mascarenhas in Rock On!
78. Aamir Khan as Sanjay Singhania in Ghajini
79. Abhay Deol as Satyaveer Randhawa in Manorama: Six Feet Under
80. Rahul Bose as Siddharth 'Sid' Bose in Pyaar Ke Side Effects
    

 

81. Emraan Hashmi as Shoaib Khan in Once Upon A Time In Mumbai
82. Vivek Oberoi as Maya 'Mayabhai' Dolas in Shootout At Lokhandwala and Chandrakant in Company
83. Priyanka Chopra as Meghna Mathur in Fashion
84. Shahrukh Khan as Surinder Sahani in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
85. Anushka Sharma as Shruti Kakkar in Band Baaja Baraat
86. Shahrukh Khan as Rizwan Khan in My Name is Khan
87. Ajay Devgan as Malik in Company and Amit Kumar in Gangajaal
88. Jimmy Shergill as Aditya Pratap Singh in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
89. Konkona Sen Sharma as Kaju 'Amu' in Amu
90. R Madhavan as Manoj Sharma in Tanu Weds Manu
    

 

91. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Jodha Bai in Jodha Akhbar
92. Manoj Bajpai as Rashid in Pinjar
93. Paresh Rawal as Lucky's Father/Gogi Arora/Dr B D Handa in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
94. Vidya Balan as Avni Chaturvedi 'Manjulika' in Bhool Bhulaiya
95. Ranbir Kapoor as Siddharth 'Sid' Mehra in Wake Up Sid
96. Kareena Kapoor as Geet in Jab We Met
97. Amole Gupte as Dhananjay Singh in Phas Gaye Re Obama
98. Sanjay Dutt as Munnabhai in Lage Raho Munnabhai and Munnabhai MBBS
99. Ranvir Shorey as Virendra Kumar/VK Agarwal in Mithya
100. Rani Mukherjee as Meera Gaity in No One Killed Jessica