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1. Pankaj Tripathi, Newton

Wow.

Bonafide brilliance in the movies comes across only once in a blue-moonlit Friday, and when it does it is impossible not to see it. Tripathi had a sensational year, dropping our jaws with unbelievable aplomb in films as diverse as Gurgaon, Bareilly Ki Barfi and Anarkali Of Aarah. He is a stealer of scenes and a master of silent moments, letting his eyes and his brow often do the talking for him. He is an actor who breathes.

Tripathi is the soul of Newton. He literally plays a character called Aatma Singh, a man who has earned too much unchecked authority to follow orders. After all, what good is playing by the book when nobody seems to have read it? The system is flawed, and Aatma is one of the men holding it in place - or at least that's what his ego claims. He is an asker of questions, an offerer of eggs, a folder of arms and, as I'd gushed in my review, a most inscrutable character. There's something exquisite in how the title character Newton and we, the audience, remain unable to read this man.

Thank you, Mr Tripathi. Long may you confound us.

FM
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