Top 10 Versatile Actors

Bharath - Boys, nesst film(?) kAdhal. vAippE illai. Two extremes.

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Originally Posted by Plum

Maddy definitely has a comfort zone- even Anbe Sivam is within his comfort zone. Add Lesa Lesa to his comfort zone roles. Even ND, I dont understand why it is out of comfort zone for him - but one thing, evlo mukkinaalum, Surya ND panna mudiyadhu.
Out of comfort zone roles for him - Edhiri(did fairly well), EnnavaLe(:rotfl:), AE, Kannathil Muthamittal(colossal failure).

Surya - avarukku Nerukku Ner-e out of comfort zone dhaan :-). I can hardly think of a comfort zone character for him - even Sanjay Ramasamy is out of his comfort zone. Pithamagan out of his zone. Perazhagan - where he failed in my opinion - also out of zone. Actually, which movie is within his comfort zone? Somebody esplain...

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Nobody has a comfort zone as every actor who can act can play different roles. Movies may not be successful but the evidence is there.

Surya too does not have a comfort zone" but his style of acting is half artificial half underplayed that no matter what role he plays there is no difference. There are roles which had maddy playing similar styles like thambi and evano oruvan but i could find the stark contrast in those two. Not surya for me. I saw ghajini's sanjay ramasaamy and that could be equated to kaaka kaaka surya. Vel rough looking surya could be equated to the aaru surya etc. He is good but certainly not in that league where he can show different set of expressions for different scenes.

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Originally Posted by Vivasaayi

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Originally Posted by Hulkster

Like i said the theme is similar but not entirely same.

Alaipayuthey - a husband who loves his wife but has to fight a emotional battle to regain his wife's life back.

Minnaley - Chocolate boy role at the start but a reluctant love in the end

Dum Dum Dum - Flirt rather than chocolate boy but not similar when you consider second half. Is trying to convince other family to be united.

Jay Jay - Similar to Minnaley.

The roles are quite diverse when you dissect them and he plays the role to perfection despite the similarity in the theme. A actor is not measured by role but the scene by scene performance and in that sense maddy has scored atleast 80 marks for me.

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then vijay is also versatile..avarayum aatathula serthukunga

shall i point out the diverstity among the roles played by vijay?

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But he is like surya in that he repeats the same style for the roles he does.

Versatility is where you can play a role differently yet convincingly no matter how similar in theme. Vijay and Surya certainly dunt qualify.

BTW on the vijay topic, he is severely diminished in this place but he is a pretty good actor, he has his own trademark style of comedy and has the ability to transcend into the scene when required, but he is super stale with the same set and add to it external factors like dialogues and glaring heroism it makes him look horrible when he actually if you take out everything is not that way.

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Originally Posted by hulkster

Versatility is where you can play a role differently yet convincingly no matter how similar in theme

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sorringa..according to me "versatility is playing different roles convincingly atleast to certain extent" not "playing a role diferently in a similar theme convincingly"

lets agree to disagree

thread nadathunar "what is versatility" apdingradha thelivu paduthatum modhalla

It is actually both. Anyway just as a final note an actor who can certainly differentiate in similar themes can certainly differentiate in other roles as he has been proven to give the performance required for a scene by scene play.

Seri lets move on to Bharath. One of my favourite young stars, i dunt really like his sense of comedy but i like the way he performs in author backed roles. Very subtle.

Kizhinjidhu!

Meendum definition-a? Bill Clinda "is" -ku definition ketta kadhayaa airuchu :)

Vidunga, no matter how different our definition yeppadiyavethu sernthu varuvom IR song interlude mathiri :D

Ada pongappa evlo pesinaalum marubadi marubadi Surya-maddy panchayathu. Ok, nestu candidate
Ravikrishna: I am going to model it on Hulkester's template, 'cos that provides me the advantage of projecting the movie's theme as an attribute of the hero. Come to think of it, this is the only way I can project Ravikrishna
Even though on the surface, it is all lower-middle-class college-age young man, look at the diversity in the roles:
7G Rainbow Colony: Lower middle class loitering young man infatuated with a North Indian neighbour and eventually dealing with the emotional upheavals resulting from his all too brief happy moments with her and the unexpected fatal intervention in their lives

Kedi: Carefree college going youth winning his girl against all odds

Ponniyin Selvan: Breadwinner for his family, his youth wasted away in the struggles of daily life; caught between his quest for his fantasies and the bite of the reality; dealing with his mother's loss.

Ravikrishna, the ultimate versatile star of his generation!

"There are roles which had maddy playing similar styles like thambi and evano oruvan"
No way. Chalk and Cheese roles. In social status, in emotional state, in personal experiences - epdi paarthalum (assuming Evano Oruvan was exactly same as Dombivili Fast)
Neenga result decide pannitteenga appurama reason solreenga :-(