Best Actor [Male] in a Supporting Role
[Indian Language]
Here it is, the best
actor winner among the bunch.
This year features
five performer of a varied school, skill, age and most importantly language.
Each one enhances
the film they are in as the ultimate supporting player. So does it really
matter who wins, since each one shines in this tough race.
Onto the nominees as
we were...
Samuthirakani as Muthuvel
for Visaranai
The greatest thing
about Samuthirakani's Muthuvel is that he doesn't turn out to be the paragon of
virtue as he is initially shown in the film, when our suffered protagonists are
saved by him.
It's to the actors
credit that he never makes you feel this way, he walks with a menace and is
measured in his intonations when bringing the hapless protagonists close to an
equally murky system they just escaped from.
But the heroic
facets never fade and thus Muthuvel is thrust into a moral quagmire, here the
actor battles his own wills against that off the larger system and the constant
dilemma to the bitter end is aptly conveyed in each measured movement and
saying.
It's a performance
that is sharp and nuanced, sinking into the scenery of the film but also
standing out in a piece that rarely lets performers stand out, absolutely
genius.
Paran Bandhopadhyay as Pranabendu Das for Cinemawala
As the aging father
disappointed by his son's vocation as a man pirating films and an obsessed old
single screen owner; the veteran Bandhopadhyay is on top form.
His drunken tirades
echo a terrible pain and the pathos in the performance are reflected in his
fearsome turn. Disintegrating as the future of cinema takes over, Bandhopadhyay
echoes Das's passion and grief as such that is comes pouring across the screen.
There is a method to
the madness and an unrelenting madness to the layered method of the
performance.
Bandhopadhyay crafts
the details of his performance with absolute deft allowing to deconstruct the
thematic generation gap of the film while equally playing destroyed voice of
conscious as well as villain and hero of the piece.
It's those eyes
above all that speak and after years of honing his craft, those eyes are filled
with pain and more.
Vinayakan as Ganga
for Kammatipaadam
The manic energy of
Ganga spills of the screen thanks to Vinayakan's astute performance.
There's a simmering
tension whenever Vinayakan steps on screen and the boiling point is soon to
hit, it's a performance well calibrated yet always bursting with the madness on
screen that makes Ganga such a threat in the flashback scenes.
In the shortest of
three timelines, as everyone tells Krishnan the story of a now maddened Ganga;
Vinayakan is a highlight, adding new details to his performance dependent on
the perspective of the teller.
The bulging eyes and
creepy teeth, Vinayakan is well aware of the physicality but it is the internal
grief and guilt of costing Anitha-Krishnan happy life that he internalizes with
a surface level craziness. It's a performance that is flashy without being
distracting, towering without being overshadowing.
The epitome of a
brilliant supporting turn.
Vikram Gokhale as Rambhau for Nathsamrat
The pathos veteran
Vikram Gokhale speaks from his eyes provides for a tear inducing performance.
As the down on his
luck Rambhau, friend to the far more popular Ganpat yet adamant that he is the
better actor; Gokhale provides a wide ranged performance that reflects
jealousy, pain, sadness etc.
He carries himself
with both a weighted aggression and a weighed down burden of loyalty, there are
multiple shades he tackles and as Rambhau breathes his last; he turns back the
clock to a rip rollicking performance that by the end one is unaware where either
the masterful Gokhale or the demented Rambhau ends.
A performance that
nearly eclipses the bright star that is Nana Patekar.
Bobby Simha as Jagan
for Iraivi
This definitely
isn't Assault Sethu [Bobby Simha in Jigarthanda, a National Award winning
performance] yet that is the best quality of a now make up free and ironically
unrecognizable Simha.
As the young upbeat
Jagan, Bobby Simha echoes the other side of the male coin; the sensitive man
aware of the atrocities committed to women but very much mired in patriarchy
thus trying and failing to play the part of the "nice" guy.
The hidden villain
and the sharp young brother to Arul that Simha plays is equal parts brought
forth with a tender touch and the reflection of a raging monster. It's a
performance well aware of which point that character is, his subtle looks
towards Ponni give a sense of that immense love he has for her without
revealing the surprise.
His angst ridden
drunk tirade against the two leads a showcase for Simha's vocal skills and
delivery. This is a performer at his pinnacle, you know this because he
enhances the simplest of roles with textured depth.
And the Winner is...
Paran Bandhopadhyay as Pranabendu Das for Cinemawala!!!
So there you have it the set of English language acting award winner, and here is your ranking;
1. Paran Bandhopadhyay for Cinemawala
2. Rinku Rajguru for Sairat
3. Shashank Arora for Brahman Naman
4. Pooja Devariya for Iraivi
So now let's take a leap forward.
Up Next: With Visaranai a close sixth in screenplay and the big two time winner, can another film get a big leg up against it?
'Nuff Said,
Aneesh Raikundalia
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