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STAR REPORT CARDS & TRIBUTES TO - THE MOST POPULAR ACTORS IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY!

I) RAJESH KHANNA -

RAJESH KHANNA'S CARS - RAJESH KHANNA'S FILMS .

OUTTA THE 136 OFFICIAL RAJESH KHANNA FILMS (118 LEAD + 10 GUEST + 8 SUPPORTING) IN INDIES ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS LIST…

Folks, guess how many films in TOP 100 BOLLY BLOCKBUSTERS OF ALL TIME'?!

37!!!!!!

Incl 8 in Top 10, 12 in Top 15, 21 in Top 50 !

MOREOVER,

WITH 73 FILMS IN TOP 300 !

& 75 FILMS IN TOP 360 !

(Adding upto his long-known 48 Platinum Jubilees + 27 Golden Jubilees tally!)

Was beginning my usual fun morning proceedings, when few strange pictures flashed on screen - and a weird feeling of connection btwn them & yesterday's or day before's mind-boggling revelations . A wonderful, almost prophetic connect, btwn Rajesh Khanna's cars (car number plates included), & his Honored Film numbers.

You have to check this out- even just for fun!

The 1st car Rajesh is known to've gifted his bride on marriage (tho no public pics of him in it exist) - A ultra-luxury 1973 Lotus Elan, number plate 'MAS 17', peculiar for it being the super speed version, very supposedly rare & top-of-the-line anywhere in the world then.

Now what is generally called MAS/MASS? - any 3 connected pts not in a straight line & 4th in another plane.

Know the number of his Films in The Top 50 All-Time Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters?! - 17+4 = 21 !

The car he is famously photographed with, alongside his wife, it seems quite often then. The white MG Sports Car, number plate 5042.

Know the number of his Films in the All-Time Top 125 Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever?! - 42 !

Know the number of his Films in The All-Time Top 150 All-Time Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever?! - 50 !

The super-luxury Toyota he is most famous for being photographed on, during the youngest years of his Emperorship, number plate 7260.

Know the number of Rajesh Khanna Films in The Top 200 All-Time Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever!? - 60 !

Know the number of Rajesh Khanna films in The All-Time Top 300 Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever - 72!

Driving Box-Office pundits the world over, into a tizzy!

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II) AN ODE TO THE UNSHAKABLE ONE.

IN HONOR OF,

ON SHEER DEPTH OF POPULARITY, IF NOT BREADTH,…THE 2ND MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN THE 111 YEAR HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA !

MR. RAAJ KUMAR !

WITH 9 FILMS IN TOP 100 ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS, 16 IN TOP 300, & 46 MASSIVE SUPERHITS ON THE WHOLE IN INDIES ALL-TIME SUCCESSES LIST!

A BARITONE TO MOVE VERITABLE MOUNTAINS FROM THEIR SLUMBER, DEEPEST VISAGE, & A ATTITUDE THAT CONJURE HAPPY REALITY FROM IMPOSSIBILITIES, THIS ONE-MAN-ACTING ARMY TRIUMPHED OVER ALMOST EVERY GENRE OF CINEMA, BARRING BUFFOONERY - ROMANCE, HIGH-OCTANE DRAMA, TRAGEDY, THRILL, & BY THE VERY END, EVEN FRONT-BENCH MASALA ACTION!

FORMING ESPECIALLY POPULAR SCREEN PAIRINGS WITH MALA SINHA,..& WHAT'S REGARDED IN MANY BOLLYWOOD CONNOISSEUR GROUPS, AS THE MOST EROTIC SCREEN-PAIRING OF ALL TIME , WITH MEENA KUMARI !

A GUARANTEED SOLID ENTERTAINER FOR ALL TIMES, OLD & NEW!

THE THANKLESS TREE TRUNK THAT HELPED HOLD THE MASSIVE BOLLYWOOD FOLIAGE ALOFT, FOUR DECADES.

FOR "THE BIG MAN OF BOLLYWOOD".

VI) THE WHIZKID OF HINDI CINEMA ! - SACHIN !!!

BY METRICS OF TOP-NOTCH SUCCESS MAGNITUDE ALONE…THE 5TH MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA (AFTER THE 4 60'S SUPERSTAR ICONS - RAJESH, SHAMMI, DEV & ASHOK KUMAR) ! ! !

SACHIN ! ! !

WITH 8 FILMS IN LEAD OR PARALLEL LEAD OR SUPPORT IN TOP 100, 16 IN TOP 300, & 40 FILMS OVERALL IN INDIES ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS LIST !

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CHILD ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA, ON SHEER BOX-OFFICE RECORD!

BUT FURTHER MAGICAL GOING AHEAD…AMONG THE TOP 4 MOST POPULAR LEAD BOLLYWOOD ACTORS THRU ENTIRE 70'S DECADE !…WHAT MORE, FINDING SOME HUUGE BOX OFFICE NUMBERS IN MID 80S TOO, & WITH A CONSISTENTLY GOOD/ HIT REPORT CARD THRU ENTIRE 80'S.

SUPERLATIVE GRACE, BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION, & HEART-ACHING INNOCENCE, COMBINED WITH SOME TRULY MESMERIZING & EVOCATIVE STORYBOARDS & SUPERHIT MUSIC ALL ALONG, THIS CELLULOID ANGEL BECAME THE DARLING OF 60'S & 70'S MASSES IN NO TIME, CONSISTENTLY WORKING HIS WAY TO RETIRE FROM LEAD ROLES BY END OF THE 80'S AS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTABLE FIGURES IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS.

OUR LOVING ADORATIONS, AT THE FILMY PULPIT OF-

BOLLYWOOD'S BOY WONDER !

VII) TRIBUTING THE CHAMELEON OF INDIAN CINEMA ! - SANJEEV KUMAR !

ON SHEER MAGNITUDE OF SUCCESS, THE 7TH MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY, AFTER RAJESH-RAJ KUMAR-SHAMMI-DEV-ASHOK & SACHIN !

WITH 6 FILMS IN TOP 100 ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS, & 13 IN TOP 300,

ALSO BOLLYWOOD'S 5TH MOST POPULAR ON QUANTUM OF SUCCESS, WITH 66 FILMS ON THE WHOLE IN INDIES BLOCKBUSTERS COMPILE!

IF EVER WAS AN ACTOR THAT GREW ON YOU, WITH EVERY PASSING DAY, YEAR & DECADE!

IN AN IMPACTFUL 25 YEAR CAREER BEFORE A SOMEWHAT EARLY DEMISE, THIS MASTER OF DISGUISE, CREATED A NICHE OF CINEMA ENTIRELY UNIQUE TO HIM & HIS NAME, THAT ENDURE AS LONG AS BOLLYWOOD HISTORY BE TOLD!

PERHAPS THE MOST SUCCESSFULLY EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA !

WITH A PENCHANT FOR EXPLORING & PRESENTING THE EXTREME FACETS OF HUMAN PERSONA, SHALLOW AS WELL AS DEEP, IN A COLLECTIVE GRACE, POISE, CHARM & VIBRANCY KNOWN ONLY TO HIM, THIS GENIUS OF HIS CRAFT, ETCHED CHARACTERS THAT SEEM TO STAY FOREVER ASSOCIATED WITH HIM ALONE, TILL TODAY, IN THEIR UNIQUE BRILLIANCE & TOUCHING DEMEANOR.

DISPLAYING A TRIUMPHANT TALENT FOR THEATRICAL HISTRIONICS FROM AN EARLY AGE, STARTING OFF PLAYING UNBELIEVABLY REAL GERIATRIC CHARACTERS ON STAGE WHEN BARELY PAST HIS TEENS, THIS DRAMA PRODIGY WOULD IN COMING FEW YEARS CREATE A LUCRATIVE MARKET FOR A SORTA MEDIUM PARALLEL CINEMA OF HIS OWN KIND, BEFORE EVOLVING OR MUTATING INTO WHAT WAS TO BE HIS MOST MEMORABLE & LASTING LEGACY TO POPULAR CINEMA - IN LIGHT COMEDY!

INARGUABLY THE NO. 1 COMIC ACTOR OF 80'S BOLLYWOOD!

PASSING AWAY BY THE END OF 1980'S, THIS LITERAL & FIGURATIVE GIANT OF A SCREEN HERO, LEAVES A BODY OF WORK THAT'S AS VIVID AS IS VAST.

OUR HEARTIEST GREETINGS IN CELEBRATION OF INDIAN CINEMA'S 'MASKED GENIUS' !

VIII) IN HONOR OF, PRADEEP KUMAR!

THE MOST SOPHISTICATED ROMANTIC HERO OF INDIAN CINEMA ! AKA BOLLYWOOD'S ROYAL PRINCE !

THE 8TH MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY, AFTER RAJESH KHANNA-RAAJ KUMAR-SHAMMI KAPOOR-DEV ANAND-ASHOK KUMAR-SACHIN & SANJEEV KUMAR!

WITH 6 FILMS IN TOP 100, 14 IN TOP 300, & A FULL 50 FILMS IN THE TOP 1251 SUPERHITS/BLOCKBUSTERS LIST OF ALL TIME !

ENDOWED WITH A MUSICALLY MAGICAL BARITONE, NESTED IN THE MOST AFFECTIONATE & COMPASSIONATE SET OF EYES, TALL & ELEGANT PHYSIQUE, & A MOST CHARMING PERSONA ON THE WHOLE, THIS SUBTLE LOVERBOY BROKE THRU ALL RANK & FILE, TO ETCH HIS NAME AS THE ONE & ONLY 'PRINCE OF BOLLYWOOD', NOT JUST FOR HIS SUPERLATIVELY IMPRESSIVE ROYAL PORTRAYALS, BUT A LEVEL OF SERIOUS SOPHISTICATION, ELAN & CAREFREE GRACE THAT BECAME A UNIQUE CALLING CARD.

FORMING AN ESPECIALLY BLOCKBUSTER SCREEN-PAIRING WITH ANOTHER ARTIST OF COMMENSURATE QUALITY - MEENA KUMARI, & AN ESPECIALLY ROYAL TWOSOME WITH BINA RAI! & MANY MANY OTHERS, BEING THE QUINTESSENTIAL IDEAL ELIGIBLE BACHELOR OF THE MOVIES!

MOVING ON IN LATER YEARS TO EMERGE AS A MOST DEPENDABLE & BOX OFFICE-FRIENDLY ELDERLY LEAD SUPPORT CAST, OF VARYING SHADES, & IN MANY MASSIVE SUCCESSES THRU THE 70'S & 80'S!

OUR DEAREST TRIBUTES, AT THE LOVE NEST OF,

PRADEEP KUMAR

XV) DHARMENDRA-

THE EMOTIONAL LIGHTHOUSE OF INDIAN CINEMA !

BOLLYWOOD'S PERMANENT ULTRA-LUXURY 20TH c. TAIL-LIGHT!

AMONG THE ONLY 3 MEN TO 'VE RECEIVED THE HONOR, OF LORDING OVER, FULL 4 FILM GENERATIONS NO LESS, AS LEADING MAN !

AMONG THE ONLY 10, HINDI CINEMA ACTORS & ACTRESSES, TO BE HONORED IN THE SUPER PRESTIGIOUS 1036 ALL TIME WORLD ACTORS-ACTRESSES LIST @ INDIES !

STARTING WORK IN THE MOTION PICTURE BUSINESS IN THE LATE 1950's, DHARAM SINGH DEOL WOULD GO ON TO MOVE & ENTHRALL MOVIEGOERS AS IT'S CONSTANT VIABLE HEROIC PRESENCE, UPTIL LATE 1990's!

WITH 76 FILMS IN THE ALL-TIME 3600 BIGGEST BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS LIST!

(A FULL: 6 IN TOP 200; 12 IN TOP 300; 24 IN TOP 500; 37 IN TOP 1000; 46 IN TOP 2000; & 74 IN TOP 3600!)

THERE IS HARDLY A SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL & FINANCIAL PHASE OF HINDI CINEMA, THAT DHARMENDRA HASN'T SEEN OR COME TO REPRESENT, & PASSED THRU WITH FLYING COLORS!

AND HARDLY A KNOWN GENERATION OF FILM-LOVERS, TODAY, THAT HAVEN'T SPENT HEAVILY THRU THEIR HARD-EARNED INCOME & PROFIT, ON HIM, TO GET ENTERTAINED & REJOICE!

THE MASTER OF ALL THINGS REEL!

THE 'DHARAM' OF SHOW-BUSINESS!

THE PRIDE OF INDIAN MOVIES !

OUR DEVOUT PRANAAMS, SHRI DHARMENDRA.

XI) VINOD KHANNA -

THE RELUCTANT SUPERSTAR !

ARGUABLY THE COOLEST 'HERO' IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA !

WITH A FULL 51 FILMS (INCL HANDFUL OF SUPPORTING/VILLAINOUS & LOTSA PARALLEL LEAD ROLES) IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 3600 BIGGEST BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS LIST! >

3 Films In Top 20 ; Total 4 Films In Top 60 ; 16 Films In All In Top 1000 ; Full 25 in Top 2000 ; And a Whole 50 Of Them in All-Time Top 3600 Money-Makers at B.O.!

One thing you could be rest assured with a Vinod Khanna film -

You'd come out of the cinemas rooting for him, be it in a small or a petty or a big way, in the end..

There was a certain likability & niceness about him, in every thing he did!

To offer better understanding to today's & to international viewers alike, (& as previously mentioned here) - He was THE CARY GRANT OF INDIA.

A niceness of persona, clearly borne of deeper spiritual leanings, leanings that even made him give up his chosen profession for full 5 yrs at peak of his stardom from 1982-1987 to devote full-time attention to meditation with Osho in USA.

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A success based on deep goodwill & sweet connect with the masses. For even when he left them, they didn't leave him, offering him a ready-made & some'd say even more raucous welcome upon comeback in 1987, the final phase of his lead career being as lucrative as the previous ones.

OUR OBEISANCES TO THE LIFE & CAREER OF 'THE COOL ONE'.

XIX) MITHUN CHAKRABORTY -

BOLLYWOOD'S DISCO KING ! - THE WHOLESALE DEAL ! - MITHUN CHAKRABORTY !

ONE OF THE MOST ALL-ROUND EMOTIVE ACTORS OF BOLLYWOOD!

A SUPERLATIVE DANCER, WHO ALSO EXCELLED AT DRAMA, AS ALSO COMEDY, & MOST OF ALL ACTION!

THE CURIOUS CASE OF MITHUN DA! - THE SUPERSTAR WHO'S HEROIC MOVIE EMPIRE BURGEONED DURING & POST MID-LIFE!

WITH 50 FILMS IN INDIE'S ALL-TIME ~3600 BLOCKBUSTERS, OVER A 25 YRS LEAD CAREER !

33 OF THESE FILMS EMERGING OUTTA HIS LAST 10 LEAD YRS!

(BREAKUP WITHIN THE ~3600 STRONG LIST BEING: 1-100: 2 100-200: 0 200-300: 2 300-500: 1 500-1300: 45)

A HEART-ACHINGLY EMOTIONAL VISAGE, ATHLETIC PHYSIQUE, & FEET OF FIRE, COMBINED WITH A PROLIFIC WORK ETHIC, ENSURED THAT THIS BANGLA-BORN HINDI SUPERSTAR GIANT, MAXIMIZED NOT ONLY HIS TRULY ENORMOUS TALENTS BUT ALSO HIS SURROUNDINGS, TO RACK UP ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUCCESS STORIES IN MODERN POST-EMERGENCY (80'S ON) BOLLYWOOD !

THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE RIGHT TIME FOR THE RIGHT JOB !

HOLDING THE WORLD RECORD FOR MOST FILMS AS LEADING MAN - 250 !

PLAYING THE BOLLYWOOD RECORD TO HIS OWN RHYTHM, DANCING HIS MERRY WAY INTO A BILLION HEARTS & MANY JINGLING BANKS!

THE DANCER-TO-DEATH >> MITHUN CHAKRABORTY !

IX) AMITABH BACHCHAN -

THE ETERNAL EVER-YOUNG PRINCE OF THE INDIAN BOX OFFICE !

How can one truthfully make an Indian All-Time Blockbusters List, & not include one of its biggest ever success stories on this front!

In Indies opinion - THE BIGGEST PARADOX IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA.

BACHCHAN MANIA, ask anyone, was a real thing in the 1980's!

And it honestly gives Indie great pleasure, especially given that we (believe it or not, even to our own surprise) left him out entirely of the Indies Top 2400 All-Time Bollywood Actors List (perhaps for fact that most of his post- liberalization cinema films were heavily non-traditional, deeply center-left, fight-to-death, dog-eat-dog films, entirely in the John Wayne mode & philosophy of film-making), for this is one list where "MERA BAAP BHI NAHI ROK SAKTA".

Hence the paradox.

HE MADE VERY BAD & VERY UNHEALTHY FILMS LOOK VERY VERY GOOD.

Also for we've ourselves spent countless pleasurable moments GROWING UP AS PRE-TEENS in the 80's (even spending days rehearsing for & enacting the kiddie roles from his extremely famous Mr. Natwarlal song in annual building functions!), watching atleast 12 OF THE 21 BACHCHAN FILMS, IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 1000 BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS segment!

With 3 Films in The All-Time Top 20 Blockbusters, 7 Films in Top 100, 9 Films in All-Time Top 200, 16 Films in Top 500, a super-impressive 21 Films in All-Time Top 1000 Blockbusters, & a one imagines quite satisfying & hugely successful sum of 38 FILMS IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 3600 HINDI BOX-OFFICE RULERS EVER!

The man who brought the national box-office to it's knees.

Ama bade hi lambe haath the yaar! Aur hathon ka jalwa usse bhi bada!

Your Box-Office Legend of Legends, Folks !

THE SUPREME, AMITABH BACHCHAN.

XV) JEETENDRA -

BOLLYWOOD'S GOOD-HEARTED JUMPING JACK!

WITH 35 FILMS IN THE ALL-TIME 3600 (INFLATION ADJUSTED) BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS @ INDIES!

A TOTAL - 1 IN TOP 100, 3 IN TOP 300, 8 IN TOP 500, 17 IN TOP 1000, 24 IN TOP 2000, & 35 IN TOP 3600!

A MASTER DANCER & GOOD-HEARTED EMOTER…"THE OLD WINE IN EVER YOUNG BOTTLE".

A SLEW OF SHADES & ROLES, THAT JEETENDRA COULD EASILY SLIP INTO, LENDING IT GRACE & YOUTHFUL EARTHINESS - THAT COMBINED WITH HIS DELIGHTFULLY BOYISH LOOKS & PHYSIQUE, THE REASON FOR HIS EVER-VIABLE & SUPER-LONG CAREER AS LEADING MAN.

DOMINATING BOTH THE DRAMA & ACTION ZONES WITH EQUAL COMFORT, HE CAME TO BECOME ONE OF THE BUSIEST & MOST MULTIFARIED ALL-ROUND HEROES OF BOLLYWOOD FOR A FULL 2.5 DECADES.

THE POWER OF INNOCENT CHARM & ABANDONMENT OF SPIRIT, THAT RULED OVER YOUNG BOLLYWOOD HEARTS FOR 2 GENERATIONS & SOME.

OUR LOVE & TRIBUTES AT THE SUPER SUCCESSFUL FILMY ALTAR OF - "BOLLYWOOD'S HEARTBREAK KID".

XXII) SHASHI KAPOOR -

THE CHARM OF INDIAN CINEMA !

SELECTED AMONG THE TOP 70 ACTORS-ACTRESSES IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA @ INDIES !

AS ALSO AMONG HINDI & INDIAN CINEMA'S TOP 5 ACTORS OF ALL TIME !

ALSO AMONGST THE CREME DE LA CREME OF THE BOLLYWOOD BOX OFFICE !

WITH A FULL 30 BLOCKBUSTERS IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 3600 BOLLY BLOCKBUSTERS LIST! (TOTAL- 1 IN TOP 30; 4 IN TOP 300; 9 IN TOP 500; 18 IN TOP 1000; 21 IN TOP 2000, & 30 IN TOP 3600)

THERE WAS NO FACET OF INDIAN HEROISM- BE IT OF THE HOPELESS ROMANTIC, MACHO STREET-SMART WINNER, SANE & SERIOUS INTELLECTUAL THINKER, OR THE WISE MATURE & ADORABLE ELDERLY…THAT SHASHI KAPOOR DID NOT TO THE POINT OF EXCEEDINGLY EXCEL IN.

A WISE & VIBRANT HEAD STEERING A PRECIOUS CINEMATIC LEGACY & BACKGROUND, THIS YOUNGEST SON OF, THE PARALLEL LEAD HERO OF INDIA'S FIRST TALKIE FILM IN 1931, ONLY TOOK EVERYTHING HE GOT AS LEGACY, AND MULTIPLIED IT MANIFOLD, FOR HIMSELF & FOR CINEMA AT LARGE.

MORE A HERO OF THE CLASSES & THE THINKING MAN & WOMAN, HE NONETHELESS ESTD A STRONG FOOTHOLD IN THE MASALA MOVIE MARKET TOO, FROM MID 70s RIGHT UPTO MID 80S, WITH A SLEW OF SUPER ENTG MULTI-STARRERS, ALONGSIDE MOST LEADS OF THE TIME, NOT TO FORGET HIS HUGELY UNDERRATED & SUCCESSFUL (IN INFLATION-ADJUSTED) STINT AS HERO OF SOLID GRACEFUL ENTERTAINERS FROM MID TO LATE 1960s, AS ALSO FEW TOP FILMS AS CHILD ARTIST IN EARLY 50s!

THE MAN YOU JUST COULDN'T SEE DOING ANY WRONG.

THE ARISTOCRAT OF DESI FUN!….TRULY A CLASS APART.

SALUTATIONS TO 'THE UNBEATABLE BOMBAY CHARM'.

SHASHI KAPOOR.

XL- CX) THE 90's GANG ! -

AND AS I'M SURE MOST OF Y'ALL BE WONDERING HOW THE 90'S CLUB FARED IN THIS MOST MASSY OF (INFLATION-ADJUSTED ) LISTS!

HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

SALMAN KHAN - 10 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS!

SHAHRUKH KHAN - 10 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS!

AAMIR KHAN - 7 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS!

AKSHAY KUMAR - 5 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS !

(THESE ARE THE ONES WITH A NOTABLE SUM, HENCE ALONE MENTIONED)

PS. We at Indies, openly admit, that the parameters of adjudication adopted in our assessment, namely of assessing number of ticket sales at world box office alone, may infact, if anything, be against the heros of 90s & thereon, given the alternative modes of (electronic) entt that came into being by then, & most of all, by advent of the millennia, by the internet of all things. Also equally & infact perhaps even more pertinently, by advent of 'multiplex culture' by start of 2000s, reducing the 'profit game' to mere week or two weeks, not allowing the months upon months of uninterrupted run of movies of past, a now bygone movie-watching culture which consequently also produced longer lasting produce.

…YET, BEING THE ONLY POSSIBLE TRUE, RIGHT, CORRECT METHODOLOGY THAT COMES TO MIND, FOR MEASURING MASS APPEAL, & in undertaking such a critical project of potentially historical understanding.

XXV) MASTER VITHAL -

OFFERING SALUTATIONS @ INDIES TO 'THE FIRST HERO OF INDIAN CINEMA' - MASTER VITHAL !

No mean feat for a star of the 20 yr Bollywood period from mid 1920's to mid 1940's, to amass no lesser than 10 FILMS IN THE INDIES ALL-TIME BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS LIST, almost all incidentally within the Top 1000 Biggest Bolly Blockbusters Ever!

For a time when cinema network within the nation wasn't anywhere as strong as say 1960's on, to sell as many tickets as to compete with biggies 70-80 yrs on, just on sheer un-inflatable numbers, demonstrates the amazingly high fan base he must 've attracted even in those near-nascent cine times, most prominently from late 30s to mid 1940's, his last 6-7 yrs stint at helm!

ALSO THE FIRST STUNT HERO OF BOLLYWOOD, & HERO OF INDIA'S FIRST TALKIE, 'ALAM ARA' (1931)!

XVII) MASTER BHAGWAN -

With a remarkable lead or parallel lead blockbuster tally of- 77 BLOCKBUSTER FILMS IN LEAD! Further break-up being – 9 in Top 400, 25 in top 1000, 36 in Top 2000, & 77 in Top 3600! ..That’s excluding umpteen semi-supporting acts from the colour era, already a hexagenerian by then! A career that actually took off 16 yrs before 'Albela', & 2 1935 Silver Jubilees (Indies benchmark),infact with ~ 20+ blockbusters to credit before the classy Geeta Bali starrer, his 1st lead being a silent pic from 1931, aged 18!

XVIII) GOVINDA -

THE BOLLYWOOD MAGNET !

GOVINDA AALA RE !

IF THERE IS ONE MAN THAT CAN VERITABLY COME TO DEFINE 90'S & 2000'S BOLLYWOOD, IN GENERAL MASS APPEAL & CORE CULTURAL BENT, IT IS GOVINDA !

WITH A WHOPPING 55 ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS TO HIS CREDIT IN THE INDIES LIST- 2 IN TOP 300, 30 IN TOP 1000, & 55 IN TOP 1418 , & A SLEW OF MID TO LATE 80'S FILMS AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF INDIES CUT-OFF POINT, CROSSING THE MAGICAL HALF CENTURY MARK IN FIGHTING FIT STYLE!

OBVIOUSLY THE GREATEST DANCER IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY, BUT ALSO INARGUABLY (PERHAPS ALONGSIDE BHAGAWAN DADA) THE GREATEST COMEDIC HERO TINSELTOWN'S EVER SEEN, & WHAT GIVEN LESSER DUE FOR, HIS ENORMOUSLY MAGNETIC PERFORMANCES IN 80'S & EARLY 90'S ACTION REGALIA! - IF EVER WERE A MORE ALL-ROUND STAR TO 'VE GRACED THE INDIAN SILVER SCREEN !

EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, RATED AMONG THE TOP 30 MOST VALUABLE PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA, FOR CARRYING INDIAN FILM CULTURE ALONG A VERY UNCERTAIN & CERTAINLY HITHERTO UNKNOWN HOTCH-POTCH PHASE BACK IN THE 90'S & 2000'S, MOREOVER TAKING HEROIC COMEDY TO NEWER HEIGHTS & DIMENSIONS IN HIS FINAL & MOST UNIQUE FILM AVATAR.

A MAN THAT WAS BORN TO ENTERTAIN & CULTURE ENMASSE.

THE FOREVER SPARKLING SUPERSTAR !

OUR DEVOUT RESPECTS.

XL-XXC) BAFFLING BLOCKBUSTER/SUPERHIT REPORT CARD OF 50'S STALWARTS -

Indies research reveals, believe it or not, each of these (truly) great actors, Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Balrah Sahni, Sunil Dutt, delivering not more than 7-8 superhits/blockbusters to their credit overall!

Hence that, w/o meaning to offend anyone, Indies continues to ask to just how 50's media couldn't see the comparatively PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF Bhagwan Dada, staring them in the face, with 77 superhits or big hits, that's more than twice all of them put together, delivered in the same 50's time period of their youth! Or Bharat Bhushan with twice the box-office success of each of them, in the same decade!

Just which offices were all these box-office figures shown on wiki or touted in legacy media invented in, may one ask?

That's leaving out superstars like Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, & Kishore Kumar, who continued in the same vein, infact some at even greater pace in the 60's.

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‘STAR REPORTS’ AT THE INDIES ALL-TIME BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS !

I) RAJESH KHANNA -

RAJESH KHANNA'S CARS - RAJESH KHANNA'S FILMS .

OUTTA THE 134 OFFICIAL RAJESH KHANNA FILMS (116 LEAD + 10 GUEST + 8 SUPPORTING) IN INDIES ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS LIST...

Folks, guess how many films in TOP 100 BOLLY BLOCKBUSTERS OF ALL TIME'?!

37!!!!!!

Incl 8 in Top 10, 12 in Top 15, 21 in Top 50 !

MOREOVER,

WITH 73 FILMS IN TOP 300 !

& 75 FILMS IN TOP 360 !

(Adding upto his long-known 48 Platinum Jubilees + 27 Golden Jubilees tally!)

You have to check this out- even just for fun!

1. The 1st car Rajesh is known to've gifted his bride on marriage (tho no public pics of him in it exist) - A ultra-luxury 1973 Lotus Elan, number plate 'MAS 17', peculiar for it being the super speed version, very supposedly rare & top-of-the-line anywhere in the world then.

Now what is generally called MAS/MASS? - any 3 connected pts not in a straight line & 4th in another plane.

Know the number of his Films in The Top 50 All-Time Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters?! - 17+4 = 21 !

2. The car he is famously photographed with, alongside his wife, it seems quite often then. The white MG Sports Car, number plate 5042.

Know the number of his Films in the All-Time Top 125 Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever?! - 42 !

Know the number of his Films in The All-Time Top 150 All-Time Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever?! - 50 !

3. The super-luxury Toyota he is most famous for being photographed on, during the youngest years of his Emperorship, number plate 7260.

Know the number of Rajesh Khanna Films in The Top 200 All-Time Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever!? - 60 !

Know the number of Rajesh Khanna films in The All-Time Top 300 Biggest Bollywood Blockbusters Ever - 72!

Driving Box-Office pundits the world over, into a tizzy!

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AN ODE TO THE UNSHAKABLE ONE. IN HONOR OF, ON SHEER DEPTH OF POPULARITY, IF NOT BREADTH,...THE 2ND MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN THE 111 YEAR HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA ! MR. RAAJ KUMAR ! WITH 9 FILMS IN TOP 100 ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS, 16 IN TOP 300, & 46 MASSIVE SUPERHITS ON THE WHOLE IN INDIES ALL-TIME SUCCESSES LIST! A BARITONE TO MOVE VERITABLE MOUNTAINS FROM THEIR SLUMBER, DEEPEST VISAGE, & A ATTITUDE THAT CONJURE HAPPY REALITY FROM IMPOSSIBILITIES, THIS ONE-MAN-ACTING ARMY TRIUMPHED OVER ALMOST EVERY GENRE OF CINEMA, BARRING BUFFOONERY - ROMANCE, HIGH-OCTANE DRAMA, TRAGEDY, THRILL, & BY THE VERY END, EVEN FRONT-BENCH MASALA ACTION! FORMING ESPECIALLY POPULAR SCREEN PAIRINGS WITH MALA SINHA,..& WHAT'S REGARDED IN MANY BOLLYWOOD CONNOISSEUR GROUPS, AS THE MOST EROTIC SCREEN-PAIRING OF ALL TIME , WITH MEENA KUMARI ! A GUARANTEED SOLID ENTERTAINER FOR ALL TIMES, OLD & NEW! THE THANKLESS TREE TRUNK THAT HELPED HOLD THE MASSIVE BOLLYWOOD FOLIAGE ALOFT, FOUR DECADES. FOR "THE BIG MAN OF BOLLYWOOD".

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II) THE WHIZKID OF HINDI CINEMA ! - SACHIN !!!

BY METRICS OF TOP-NOTCH SUCCESS MAGNITUDE ALONE...THE 5TH MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA (AFTER THE 4 60'S SUPERSTAR ICONS - RAJESH, SHAMMI, DEV & ASHOK KUMAR) ! ! !

- SACHIN ! ! !

WITH 8 FILMS IN LEAD OR PARALLEL LEAD OR SUPPORT IN TOP 100, 16 IN TOP 300, & 40 FILMS OVERALL IN INDIES ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS LIST !

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CHILD ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA, ON SHEER BOX-OFFICE RECORD!

BUT FURTHER MAGICAL GOING AHEAD...AMONG THE TOP 4 MOST POPULAR LEAD BOLLYWOOD ACTORS THRU ENTIRE 70'S DECADE !...WHAT MORE, FINDING SOME HUUGE BOX OFFICE NUMBERS IN MID 80S TOO, & WITH A CONSISTENTLY GOOD/ HIT REPORT CARD THRU ENTIRE 80'S.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS.

OUR LOVING ADORATIONS, AT THE FILMY PULPIT OF-

BOLLYWOOD'S BOY WONDER !

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III) TRIBUTING THE CHAMELEON OF INDIAN CINEMA ! - SANJEEV KUMAR ! ON SHEER MAGNITUDE OF SUCCESS, THE 7TH MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY, AFTER RAJESH-RAJ KUMAR-SHAMMI-DEV-ASHOK & SACHIN ! - WITH 6 FILMS IN TOP 100 ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS, & 13 IN TOP 300, ALSO BOLLYWOOD'S 5TH MOST POPULAR ON QUANTUM OF SUCCESS, WITH 64 FILMS ON THE WHOLE IN INDIES BLOCKBUSTERS COMPILE! IF EVER WAS AN ACTOR THAT GREW ON YOU, WITH EVERY PASSING DAY, YEAR & DECADE! IN AN IMPACTFUL 25 YEAR CAREER BEFORE A SOMEWHAT EARLY DEMISE, THIS MASTER OF DISGUISE, CREATED A NICHE OF CINEMA ENTIRELY UNIQUE TO HIM & HIS NAME, THAT ENDURE AS LONG AS BOLLYWOOD HISTORY BE TOLD! PERHAPS THE MOST SUCCESSFULLY EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA ! WITH A PENCHANT FOR EXPLORING & PRESENTING THE EXTREME FACETS OF HUMAN PERSONA, SHALLOW AS WELL AS DEEP, IN A COLLECTIVE GRACE, POISE, CHARM & VIBRANCY KNOWN ONLY TO HIM, THIS GENIUS OF HIS CRAFT, ETCHED CHARACTERS THAT SEEM TO STAY FOREVER ASSOCIATED WITH HIM ALONE, TILL TODAY, IN THEIR UNIQUE BRILLIANCE & TOUCHING DEMEANOR. DISPLAYING A TRIUMPHANT TALENT FOR THEATRICAL HISTRIONICS FROM AN EARLY AGE, STARTING OFF PLAYING UNBELIEVABLY REAL GERIATRIC CHARACTERS ON STAGE WHEN BARELY PAST HIS TEENS, THIS DRAMA PRODIGY WOULD IN COMING FEW YEARS CREATE A LUCRATIVE MARKET FOR A SORTA MEDIUM PARALLEL CINEMA OF HIS OWN KIND, BEFORE EVOLVING OR MUTATING INTO WHAT WAS TO BE HIS MOST MEMORABLE & LASTING LEGACY TO POPULAR CINEMA - IN LIGHT COMEDY! INARGUABLY THE NO. 1 COMIC ACTOR OF 80'S BOLLYWOOD! PASSING AWAY BY THE END OF 1980'S, THIS LITERAL & FIGURATIVE GIANT OF A SCREEN HERO, LEAVES A BODY OF WORK THAT'S AS VIVID AS IS VAST. OUR HEARTIEST GREETINGS IN CELEBRATION OF INDIAN CINEMA'S 'MASKED GENIUS' !

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VIII) IN HONOR OF, PRADEEP KUMAR! THE MOST SOPHISTICATED ROMANTIC HERO OF INDIAN CINEMA ! AKA BOLLYWOOD'S ROYAL PRINCE ! THE 8TH MOST POPULAR ACTOR IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY, AFTER RAJESH KHANNA-RAAJ KUMAR-SHAMMI KAPOOR-DEV ANAND-ASHOK KUMAR-SACHIN & SANJEEV KUMAR! WITH 6 FILMS IN TOP 100, 14 IN TOP 300, & A FULL 50 FILMS IN THE TOP 1251 SUPERHITS/BLOCKBUSTERS LIST OF ALL TIME ! ENDOWED WITH A MUSICALLY MAGICAL BARITONE, NESTED IN THE MOST AFFECTIONATE & COMPASSIONATE SET OF EYES, TALL & ELEGANT PHYSIQUE, & A MOST CHARMING PERSONA ON THE WHOLE, THIS SUBTLE LOVERBOY BROKE THRU ALL RANK & FILE, TO ETCH HIS NAME AS THE ONE & ONLY 'PRINCE OF BOLLYWOOD', NOT JUST FOR HIS SUPERLATIVELY IMPRESSIVE ROYAL PORTRAYALS, BUT A LEVEL OF SERIOUS SOPHISTICATION, ELAN & CAREFREE GRACE THAT BECAME A UNIQUE CALLING CARD. FORMING AN ESPECIALLY BLOCKBUSTER SCREEN-PAIRING WITH ANOTHER ARTIST OF COMMENSURATE QUALITY - MEENA KUMARI, & AN ESPECIALLY ROYAL TWOSOME WITH BINA RAI! & MANY MANY OTHERS, BEING THE QUINTESSENTIAL IDEAL ELIGIBLE BACHELOR OF THE MOVIES! MOVING ON IN LATER YEARS TO EMERGE AS A MOST DEPENDABLE & BOX OFFICE-FRIENDLY ELDERLY LEAD SUPPORT CAST, OF VARYING SHADES, & IN MANY MASSIVE SUCCESSES THRU THE 70'S & 80'S! OUR DEAREST TRIBUTES, AT THE LOVE NEST OF, PRADEEP KUMAR

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IV) DHARMENDRA-

THE EMOTIONAL LIGHTHOUSE OF INDIAN CINEMA ! BOLLYWOOD'S PERMANENT ULTRA-LUXURY 20TH c. TAIL-LIGHT! AMONG THE ONLY 3 MEN TO 'VE RECEIVED THE HONOR, OF LORDING OVER, FULL 4 FILM GENERATIONS NO LESS, AS LEADING MAN ! AMONG THE ONLY 10, HINDI CINEMA ACTORS & ACTRESSES, TO BE HONORED IN THE SUPER PRESTIGIOUS 1036 ALL TIME WORLD ACTORS-ACTRESSES LIST @ INDIES ! STARTING WORK IN THE MOTION PICTURE BUSINESS IN THE LATE 1950's, DHARAM SINGH DEOL WOULD GO ON TO MOVE & ENTHRALL MOVIEGOERS AS IT'S CONSTANT VIABLE HEROIC PRESENCE, UPTIL LATE 1990's! WITH 76 FILMS IN THE ALL-TIME 3600 BIGGEST BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS LIST! (A FULL: 6 IN TOP 200; 12 IN TOP 300; 24 IN TOP 500; 37 IN TOP 1000; 46 IN TOP 2000; & 74 IN TOP 3600!) THERE IS HARDLY A SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL & FINANCIAL PHASE OF HINDI CINEMA, THAT DHARMENDRA HASN'T SEEN OR COME TO REPRESENT, & PASSED THRU WITH FLYING COLORS! AND HARDLY A KNOWN GENERATION OF FILM-LOVERS, TODAY, THAT HAVEN'T SPENT HEAVILY THRU THEIR HARD-EARNED INCOME & PROFIT, ON HIM, TO GET ENTERTAINED & REJOICE! THE MASTER OF ALL THINGS REEL! THE 'DHARAM' OF SHOW-BUSINESS! THE PRIDE OF INDIAN MOVIES ! OUR DEVOUT PRANAAMS, SHRI DHARMENDRA.

V) VINOD KHANNA -

THE RELUCTANT SUPERSTAR ! ARGUABLY THE COOLEST 'HERO' IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA ! WITH A FULL 51 FILMS (INCL HANDFUL OF SUPPORTING/VILLAINOUS & LOTSA PARALLEL LEAD ROLES) IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 3600 BIGGEST BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS LIST! > 3 Films In Top 20 ; Total 4 Films In Top 60 ; 16 Films In All In Top 1000 ; Full 25 in Top 2000 ; And a Whole 50 Of Them in All-Time Top 3600 Money-Makers at B.O.! One thing you could be rest assured with a Vinod Khanna film - You'd come out of the cinemas rooting for him, be it in a small or a petty or a big way, in the end.. There was a certain likability & niceness about him, in every thing he did! To offer better understanding to today's & to international viewers alike, (& as previously mentioned here) - He was THE CARY GRANT OF INDIA. A niceness of persona, clearly borne of deeper spiritual leanings, leanings that even made him give up his chosen profession for full 5 yrs at peak of his stardom from 1982-1987 to devote full-time attention to meditation with Osho in USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krPOuaSdYg8 A success based on deep goodwill & sweet connect with the masses. For even when he left them, they didn't leave him, offering him a ready-made & some'd say even more raucous welcome upon comeback in 1987, the final phase of his lead career being as lucrative as the previous ones. OUR OBEISANCES TO THE LIFE & CAREER OF 'THE COOL ONE'.

VI) MITHUN CHAKRABORTY -

BOLLYWOOD'S DISCO KING ! - THE WHOLESALE DEAL ! - MITHUN CHAKRABORTY ! ONE OF THE MOST ALL-ROUND EMOTIVE ACTORS OF BOLLYWOOD! A SUPERLATIVE DANCER, WHO ALSO EXCELLED AT DRAMA, AS ALSO COMEDY, & MOST OF ALL ACTION! THE CURIOUS CASE OF MITHUN DA! - THE SUPERSTAR WHO'S HEROIC MOVIE EMPIRE BURGEONED DURING & POST MID-LIFE! WITH 50 FILMS IN INDIE'S ALL-TIME ~3600 BLOCKBUSTERS, OVER A 25 YRS LEAD CAREER ! - 33 OF THESE FILMS EMERGING OUTTA HIS LAST 10 LEAD YRS! https://tooter.in/IndieSole/posts/109885360358723412 (BREAKUP WITHIN THE ~3600 STRONG LIST BEING: 1-100: 2 100-200: 0 200-300: 2 300-500: 1 500-1300: 45) A HEART-ACHINGLY EMOTIONAL VISAGE, ATHLETIC PHYSIQUE, & FEET OF FIRE, COMBINED WITH A PROLIFIC WORK ETHIC, ENSURED THAT THIS BANGLA-BORN HINDI SUPERSTAR GIANT, MAXIMIZED NOT ONLY HIS TRULY ENORMOUS TALENTS BUT ALSO HIS SURROUNDINGS, TO RACK UP ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUCCESS STORIES IN MODERN POST-EMERGENCY (80'S ON) BOLLYWOOD ! THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE RIGHT TIME FOR THE RIGHT JOB ! HOLDING THE WORLD RECORD FOR MOST FILMS AS LEADING MAN - 250 ! PLAYING THE BOLLYWOOD RECORD TO HIS OWN RHYTHM, DANCING HIS MERRY WAY INTO A BILLION HEARTS & MANY JINGLING BANKS! THE DANCER-TO-DEATH >> MITHUN CHAKRABORTY !

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VII) AMITABH BACHCHAN -

THE ETERNAL EVER-YOUNG PRINCE OF THE INDIAN BOX OFFICE ! How can one truthfully make an Indian All-Time Blockbusters List, & not include one of its biggest ever success stories on this front! In Indies opinion - THE BIGGEST PARADOX IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA. BACHCHAN MANIA, ask anyone, was a real thing in the 1980's! And it honestly gives Indie great pleasure, especially given that we (believe it or not, even to our own surprise) left him out entirely of the Indies Top 2400 All-Time Bollywood Actors List (perhaps for fact that most of his post- liberalization cinema films were heavily non-traditional, deeply center-left, fight-to-death, dog-eat-dog films, entirely in the John Wayne mode & philosophy of film-making), for this is one list where "MERA BAAP BHI NAHI ROK SAKTA". Hence the paradox. HE MADE VERY BAD & VERY UNHEALTHY FILMS LOOK VERY VERY GOOD. Also for we've ourselves spent countless pleasurable moments GROWING UP AS PRE-TEENS in the 80's (even spending days rehearsing for & enacting the kiddie roles from his extremely famous Mr. Natwarlal song in annual building functions!), watching atleast 12 OF THE 21 BACHCHAN FILMS, IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 1000 BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS segment! With 3 Films in The All-Time Top 20 Blockbusters, 7 Films in Top 100, 9 Films in All-Time Top 200, 16 Films in Top 500, a super-impressive 21 Films in All-Time Top 1000 Blockbusters, & a one imagines quite satisfying & hugely successful sum of 38 FILMS IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 3600 HINDI BOX-OFFICE RULERS EVER! The man who brought the national box-office to it's knees. Ama bade hi lambe haath the yaar! Aur hathon ka jalwa usse bhi bada! Your Box-Office Legend of Legends, Folks ! THE SUPREME, AMITABH BACHCHAN.

VIII) JEETENDRA -

BOLLYWOOD'S GOOD-HEARTED JUMPING JACK! WITH 35 FILMS IN THE ALL-TIME 3600 (INFLATION ADJUSTED) BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS @ INDIES! A TOTAL - 1 IN TOP 100, 3 IN TOP 300, 8 IN TOP 500, 17 IN TOP 1000, 24 IN TOP 2000, & 35 IN TOP 3600! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A MASTER DANCER & GOOD-HEARTED EMOTER..."THE OLD WINE IN EVER YOUNG BOTTLE". A SLEW OF SHADES & ROLES, THAT JEETENDRA COULD EASILY SLIP INTO, LENDING IT GRACE & YOUTHFUL EARTHINESS - THAT COMBINED WITH HIS DELIGHTFULLY BOYISH LOOKS & PHYSIQUE, THE REASON FOR HIS EVER-VIABLE & SUPER-LONG CAREER AS LEADING MAN. DOMINATING BOTH THE DRAMA & ACTION ZONES WITH EQUAL COMFORT, HE CAME TO BECOME ONE OF THE BUSIEST & MOST MULTIFARIED ALL-ROUND HEROES OF BOLLYWOOD FOR A FULL 2.5 DECADES. THE POWER OF INNOCENT CHARM & ABANDONMENT OF SPIRIT, THAT RULED OVER YOUNG BOLLYWOOD HEARTS FOR 2 GENERATIONS & SOME. OUR LOVE & TRIBUTES AT THE SUPER SUCCESSFUL FILMY ALTAR OF - "BOLLYWOOD'S HEARTBREAK KID".

IX) SHASHI KAPOOR -

THE CHARM OF INDIAN CINEMA ! SELECTED AMONG THE TOP 70 ACTORS-ACTRESSES IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA @ INDIES ! AS ALSO AMONG HINDI & INDIAN CINEMA'S TOP 5 ACTORS OF ALL TIME ! ALSO AMONGST THE CREME DE LA CREME OF THE BOLLYWOOD BOX OFFICE ! WITH A FULL 30 BLOCKBUSTERS IN THE ALL-TIME TOP 3600 BOLLY BLOCKBUSTERS LIST! (TOTAL- 1 IN TOP 30; 4 IN TOP 300; 9 IN TOP 500; 18 IN TOP 1000; 21 IN TOP 2000, & 30 IN TOP 3600) THERE WAS NO FACET OF INDIAN HEROISM- BE IT OF THE HOPELESS ROMANTIC, MACHO STREET-SMART WINNER, SANE & SERIOUS INTELLECTUAL THINKER, OR THE WISE MATURE & ADORABLE ELDERLY...THAT SHASHI KAPOOR DID NOT TO THE POINT OF EXCEEDINGLY EXCEL IN. A WISE & VIBRANT HEAD STEERING A PRECIOUS CINEMATIC LEGACY & BACKGROUND, THIS YOUNGEST SON OF, THE PARALLEL LEAD HERO OF INDIA'S FIRST TALKIE FILM IN 1931, ONLY TOOK EVERYTHING HE GOT AS LEGACY, AND MULTIPLIED IT MANIFOLD, FOR HIMSELF & FOR CINEMA AT LARGE. MORE A HERO OF THE CLASSES & THE THINKING MAN & WOMAN, HE NONETHELESS ESTD A STRONG FOOTHOLD IN THE MASALA MOVIE MARKET TOO, FROM MID 70s RIGHT UPTO MID 80S, WITH A SLEW OF SUPER ENTG MULTI-STARRERS, ALONGSIDE MOST LEADS OF THE TIME, NOT TO FORGET HIS HUGELY UNDERRATED & SUCCESSFUL (IN INFLATION-ADJUSTED) STINT AS HERO OF SOLID GRACEFUL ENTERTAINERS FROM MID TO LATE 1960s, AS ALSO FEW TOP FILMS AS CHILD ARTIST IN EARLY 50s! THE MAN YOU JUST COULDN'T SEE DOING ANY WRONG. THE ARISTOCRAT OF DESI FUN!....TRULY A CLASS APART. SALUTATIONS TO 'THE UNBEATABLE BOMBAY CHARM'. SHASHI KAPOOR.

X) THE 90's GANG ! -

AND AS I'M SURE MOST OF Y'ALL BE WONDERING HOW THE 90'S CLUB FARED IN THIS MOST MASSY OF (INFLATION-ADJUSTED ) LISTS! HERE ARE THE RESULTS: SALMAN KHAN - 10 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS! SHAHRUKH KHAN - 10 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS! AAMIR KHAN - 7 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS! & AKSHAY KUMAR - 5 FILMS IN ALL-TIME 3600 BLOCKBUSTERS ! (THESE ARE THE ONES WITH A NOTABLE SUM, HENCE ALONE MENTIONED) PS. We at Indies, openly admit, that the parameters of adjudication adopted in our assessment, namely of assessing number of ticket sales at world box office alone, may infact, if anything, be against the heros of 90s & thereon, given the alternative modes of (electronic) entt that came into being by then, & most of all, by advent of the millennia, by the internet of all things. Also equally & infact perhaps even more pertinently, by advent of 'multiplex culture' by start of 2000s, reducing the 'profit game' to mere week or two weeks, not allowing the months upon months of uninterrupted run of movies of past, a now bygone movie-watching culture which consequently also produced longer lasting produce. ...YET, BEING THE ONLY POSSIBLE TRUE, RIGHT, CORRECT METHODOLOGY THAT COMES TO MIND, FOR MEASURING MASS APPEAL, & in undertaking such a critical project of potentially historical understanding.

XI) MASTER VITHAL -

OFFERING SALUTATIONS @ INDIES TO 'THE FIRST HERO OF INDIAN CINEMA' - MASTER VITHAL ! No mean feat for a star of the 20 yr Bollywood period from mid 1920's to mid 1940's, to amass no lesser than 10 FILMS IN THE INDIES ALL-TIME BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS LIST, almost all incidentally within the Top 1000 Biggest Bolly Blockbusters Ever! For a time when cinema network within the nation wasn't anywhere as strong as say 1960's on, to sell as many tickets as to compete with biggies 70-80 yrs on, just on sheer un-inflatable numbers, demonstrates the amazingly high fan base he must 've attracted even in those near-nascent cine times, most prominently from late 30s to mid 1940's, his last 6-7 yrs stint at helm! ALSO THE FIRST STUNT HERO OF BOLLYWOOD, & HERO OF INDIA'S FIRST TALKIE, 'ALAM ARA' (1931)!

XII) MASTER BHAGWAN -

Yes, Master Bhagwan, lovingly referred to as ‘Bhagwan dada’, known till now as the hero of one or two giant musical hits here & there, & a revolutionary dancer on screen, plus somehow useful semi-supporting act from color era, now emerges as, surprise of all surprises, THE 2ND MOST POPULAR HERO (BY CERTAIN METRICS) IN THE HISTORY OF HINDI CINEMA AFTER RAJESH KHANNA! With a remarkable lead or parallel lead blockbuster tally of- 77 BLOCKBUSTER FILMS IN LEAD! Further break-up being – 9 in Top 400, 25 in top 1000, 36 in Top 2000, & 77 in Top 3600! ..That’s excluding umpteen semi-supporting acts from the colour era, already a hexagenerian by then! A career that actually took off 16 yrs before 'Albela', & 2 1935 Silver Jubilees (Indies benchmark),infact with ~ 20+ blockbusters to credit before the classy Geeta Bali starrer, his 1st lead being a silent pic from 1931, aged 18!

XIII) GOVINDA -

THE BOLLYWOOD MAGNET ! GOVINDA AALA RE ! IF THERE IS ONE MAN THAT CAN VERITABLY COME TO DEFINE 90'S & 2000'S BOLLYWOOD, IN GENERAL MASS APPEAL & CORE CULTURAL BENT, IT IS GOVINDA ! WITH A WHOPPING 55 ALL-TIME BLOCKBUSTERS TO HIS CREDIT IN THE INDIES LIST- 2 IN TOP 300, 30 IN TOP 1000, & 55 IN TOP 1418 , & A SLEW OF MID TO LATE 80'S FILMS AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF INDIES CUT-OFF POINT, CROSSING THE MAGICAL HALF CENTURY MARK IN FIGHTING FIT STYLE! OBVIOUSLY THE GREATEST DANCER IN BOLLYWOOD HISTORY, BUT ALSO INARGUABLY (PERHAPS ALONGSIDE BHAGAWAN DADA) THE GREATEST COMEDIC HERO TINSELTOWN'S EVER SEEN, & WHAT GIVEN LESSER DUE FOR, HIS ENORMOUSLY MAGNETIC PERFORMANCES IN 80'S & EARLY 90'S ACTION REGALIA! - IF EVER WERE A MORE ALL-ROUND STAR TO 'VE GRACED THE INDIAN SILVER SCREEN ! EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, RATED AMONG THE TOP 30 MOST VALUABLE PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA, FOR CARRYING INDIAN FILM CULTURE ALONG A VERY UNCERTAIN & CERTAINLY HITHERTO UNKNOWN HOTCH-POTCH PHASE BACK IN THE 90'S & 2000'S, MOREOVER TAKING HEROIC COMEDY TO NEWER HEIGHTS & DIMENSIONS IN HIS FINAL & MOST UNIQUE FILM AVATAR. A MAN THAT WAS BORN TO ENTERTAIN & CULTURE ENMASSE. THE FOREVER SPARKLING SUPERSTAR ! OUR DEVOUT RESPECTS.

XIV) BAFFLING BLOCKBUSTER/SUPERHIT REPORT CARD OF 50'S STALWARTS - Indies research reveals, believe it or not, each of these (truly) great actors, Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Balrah Sahni, Sunil Dutt, delivering not more than 7-8 superhits/blockbusters to their credit overall! Hence that, w/o meaning to offend anyone, Indies continues to ask to just how 50's media couldn't see the comparatively PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF Bhagwan Dada, staring them in the face, with 77 superhits or big hits, that's more than twice all of them put together, delivered in the same 50's time period of their youth! Or Bharat Bhushan with twice the box-office success of each of them, in the same decade! Just which offices were all these box-office figures shown on wiki or touted in legacy media invented in, may one ask? That's leaving out superstars like Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, & Kishore Kumar, who continued in the same vein, infact some at even greater pace in the 60's.

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