Marking the completion of 100 years of Indian Cinema, 25 greatest acting performances of Indian Cinema were picked from nation wide film industries. Surprisingly, Late J V Somayajulu was the only actor from Telugu film industry who got selected in the top 25 greatest acting performances list for his memorable acting performance in 1980 classic ‘Sankarabharanam’. Other acting legends in the list are
Hindi:
Dilip Kumar (Devdas, 1955)
Nutan (Bandini, 1963)
Utpal Dutt (Bhuvan Shome, 1969)
Balraj Sahni (Garam Hawa, 1974)
Amitabh Bachchan (Deewar, 1975)
Amjad Khan (Sholay, 1975)
Naseeruddin Shah (Sparsh, 1980)
Rekha (Umrao Jaan, 1981)
Sanjeev Kumar (Angoor, 1982)
Smita Patil (Mirchi Masala, 1987)
Kannada:
Dr Raj Kumar (The Golden Man, 1972)
Malayalam:
Mammootty (Mathilukal, 1989)
Mohan Lal (Bharatham, 1991)
Tamil:
Shivaji Ganesan (Parasakthi, 1952)
Rajnikanth (Thillu Mullu, 1981)
Kamal Haasan (Mahanandi, 1994)
Revathi (Mouna Ragam, 1986)
Bengali:
Supriya Choudhury (Megha Dhaka Tara, 1960)
Soumitra Chatterjee “(Jhinder Bandi, 1961)
Chhabi Biswas (Jalsaghar, 1958)
Uttam Kumar (Nayak, 1966)
Ananya Chatterjee (Abohomaan, 2010)
Marathi:
Upendra Limaye (Jogwa, 2009)
Nilu Phule (Samna, 1975)
