In one of his career's landmark performances -- and the one that won him is first Best Actor trophy at the Filmfare Awards -- Kapoor plays Mahesh, a jingoistic newly-enrolled Navy man.
His love for Mohini (Madhuri Dixit, breaking through herself with this N Chandra film) leads Mahesh to arrest and exile from the city of Bombay. He does return, but as Munna, a cold-blooded gangster with vengeance bloodying his eyes.
A bravura performance, dripping with screen presence and versatility as Anil goes from utterly likable to undeniably frightening -- and every shade in between.
In the picture: A scene from Tezaab.
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