Top 10 Anti-Heroes Of Bollywood

Movies often feature characters that are referred to as simply good and evil, heroes and villains. But many a time, we see an anti-hero, a character who is ethically questionable and lacks the traditional heroic traits but still has the audience rooting for them. Anti-heroes are often unpredictable and complex but grounded in reality. Today we look at some of the best anti-heroes that Bollywood films offer.

1. Haider Meer (Haider)

In the Indian adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Haider follows the titular character, who returns to his hometown in Jammu & Kashmir after a violent insurgency to look for his missing father. Soon he finds out that his mother and uncle are behind his father’s death.He then descends entirely into madness and becomes hell-bent on revenge. What happens, in the end, can be essentially called a bloodbath. Haider becomes an anti-hero because of the betrayal, and Shahid Kapoor Shahid Kapoor also identifies as the name Shahid K >> Read More... delivers a career-best performance as Haider.

2. Balaram ( Khal Nayak Click to look into! >> Read More... )

When the title translates to villain, you can guess how our protagonist would be. Sanjay Dutt July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of >> Read More... plays the role of Balaram, who becomes a villain because of his circumstances. Balaram is forced into the dark side of society and a criminal lifestyle but eventually discovers a glimpse of hope. Khal Nayak is considered a masterpiece today, and Dutt played the role to perfection.

3. Rahul Mehra (Darr)

Rahul is an obsessive, creepy, and crazy stalker who claims he is in madly love with Kiran, who gets married to Sunil. After getting to know about Kiran’s marriage, he goes berserk and decides to claim her for himself. Although Rahul is the villain here, we still sympathize with him. Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent >> Read More... is at his best here perfectly portraying an obsessive lover and anti-hero.

4. Bhiku Mhatre (Satya)

Satya remains one of the best underworld movies of Bollywood, and the credit goes to the epic and memorable characters and RGV’s direction. Manoj Bajpayee Born on 23 April 1969, Manoj Bajpai is first a Bol >> Read More... plays the role of a gangster and delivers the legendary dialogue where he claims Mumbai’s king. Manoj Bajpayee plays the role perfectly and proves himself to be a great actor. Satya also features another great anti-hero from JD Chakravarthy, who gets sucked into the Mumbai underworld.

5. Kabir Singh (Kabir Singh)

Shahid Kapoor’s most memorable character of recent times, Kabir Singh, is an exceptional surgeon with anger management issues. He is an alcoholic, chain smoker, and habitual drug user. He falls in love with Preeti, a timid fresher. The movie takes us on a journey where Kabir completely loses it and gives himself to drugs and alcohol after Preeti marries someone else. Although Kabir is a deeply flawed and toxic character, audiences loved him and made the movie a blockbuster.

6. Don (Don)

The 2006 movie follows the story of Vijay, who is a lookalike of criminal kingpin Don. Vijay is hired by the DCP to find out Don’s secrets. But after DCP gets killed, Vijay struggles to reveal his true identity. Don is essentially a villain who is very deceptive and cunning. It is one of the few movies where we root for the villain, who ultimately emerges victorious.

7. Raghu (Vaastav)

One of the greatest gangster films of all time, Vaastav follows Raghu, a simpleton hailing from a middle-class family who accidentally kills someone and then becomes a gangster. The ending is devastating and will make the viewers cry. Sanjay Dutt gives a career-best performance as Raghu. I never thought we would feel bad for a gangster, but that is just a testament to how great the movie is.

8. Vijay Deenanath Chauhan (Agneepath)

Agneepath follows Vijay on a journey seeking revenge for the death of his father at the hands of Kancha, a drug lord. Vijay starts his journey which is fueled by vengeance, to exact revenge on Kancha from a young age. He descends into the murky underworld of Mumbai and turns into an explosive anti-hero. The Hrithik Roshan Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves i >> Read More... starring film is a remake of the original 1990 film, where the character of Vijay was played by Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in A >> Read More... .

9. Ajay Sharma/Vicky Malhotra (Baazigar)

Shah Rukh Khan mostly played the bad guys in the starting couple of years of his career. The same is the case with Baazigar. He portrays a young man, Ajay, who will take any means to exact revenge on a successful businessman who killed his father. Ajay is cold-blooded, calculating, and a remorseless rogue. Still, the character managed to capture the audience with his slick charm, and the movie made SRK a star, for which he also won a Filmfare Award.

10. Vijay (Deewar)

In this epic Bollywood classic, Amitabh Bachchan delivers a powerful performance as a man who is compelled by fate to choose the dark side of the law and climb through the underworld. Inevitably, he comes across his brother, a devoted police officer committed to upholding the law. A whole generation was moved by Amitabh’s performance, and pretty much every subsequent anti-hero was impacted in some way.