Thanks to the multiplex-going audience of the metropolitan cities of today, small-budget movies have been given a new lease of life in the last 10 years or so.
Although there has always been a parallel wave in Bollywood, but it is only now that the difference between what is ‘commercial’ and what is ‘art’ has disappeared, as movies with strong content and cinematic excellence are appealing to the Indian masses like they never did before.
And this has given a source of never-ending opportunities to the kind of talented actors, that were often ignored by the vanity-chasing mainstream cinema, of let’s say – the 90’s, or before.
There are faces like Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Tilotimma Shome, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shoray, Adil Hussain, Jimmy Shergil, Manoj Bajpayee and countless others, who now get to have a body of work in leading roles, as producers are willing to invest in content-driven movies, that require their calibre.
Listing down some of the most frequently seen faces of such small-budget, yet impactful Hindi cinema of recent years, here is our latest summation of the best we have to offer:
Great to belong to an era of movies, which allows us to witness talent like these!