Best Breakthrough Actor [Male]
Though Radhika Apte had some quality performances this year and a fair bit of quantity, nothing matches the staggering quality produced by Vicky Kaushal in Masaan.
So let's just dive right into it, the winner for the HIndie Award for Best Breakthrough Actor [Male] is...
Vicky Kaushal as Deepak for Masaan!
Credit where credit is due, his friend and director Neeraj Ghaywan deserves credits for bringing out the best in him, as well as his co-stars for supporting him in this venture.
Debutante Vicky Kaushal makes an unbelievable impact with his performance in Masaan. He is a near showstopper and definitely its finest bit, with his performance towering over not only the actors around him but being etched so finely that no one else could fill his shoes [and mind you the initial choice was a certain National Award Winning Rajkumar Rao].
In one of the most haunting scenes, Kaushal is seen as is with his caste (Dom, deplorable social conditions); crushing the bones of the dead bodies on a funeral pyre [so as they turn to ash much easier] when he hears that these funeral pyres are of a collective on a bus trip gone haywire. Included among those on the bus trip was his love.
He is distraught, taken down. It's a moment of silence punctuated perfectly by his expression of horror. The next we see him, he is completely breaking down; ruing his fate. In that moment, an actor can slip but all we see is Deepak completely brought down to his lowest.
In the uneasy moments of his developing relationship; Kaushal is excellent, fidgeting, nervous and even his outburst regarding their caste differences is genuine.
Here is an actor that makes a bold statement in his first film and continues it forward in his second.
Yes!
I have seen Zubaan and Kaushal is no mere fluke, his next performance in fact heralds his coming and also indicates that he is here to be a mainstay in the HIndie Awards to come.
Up Next: One was not enough so now we have five and what a five!...the HIndie Award for Best Breakthrough Director
'Nuff Said
Aneesh
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