To this day the finest underworld film in Hindi cinema -- one that gangsters in Mumbai borrowed slang from instead of the other way around -- Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Parinda was also India's official entry to the 1989 Oscars.
Kapoor played Shroff's younger brother yet again, and the way he emerged with more plaudits this time around showed that this was an actor not bound by trifles like screentime. He was just hungry to do better.
Kapoor plays a young man sheltered from crime by his tough sibling, but when he sees his best friend killed he turns to those rivalling his brother's gang.
In drama later echoed in films like The Departed, Kapoor plays off one gang against the other and takes the film intensely forward until we are shocked by the gruesome finale. A pitch-perfect performance from everyone on board.
In the picture: A scene from Parinda.
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