Very often, in interviews and pieces written for articles, I'm asked to list my Top Ten of this or that . actors, movies, novelists, books, heroic figures, and so on.
Because this is such a frequent and ubiquitous question, occurring in many countries across Europe, Asia , Africa, and Oceania, and asked by journalists, writers, interviewers, and reading fans of all ages, I decided to put some of the lists here, in this new section of the site, as a reference for anyone who'd like to know.
As time goes by (name of a song from one of my Favorite Movies), I'll add new lists. If you have a request for a new Top Ten List, just drop me an email (info@shantaram.com) and I'll think it through and then add it to the growing lists.
I'll start this new section with 3 lists: Actors, Actresses, and Epic Books.
Because the number 10 is so arbitrary, and because there are so many astoundingly good actors and actresses, the lists for these categories stretch beyond the number 10. The fact is, I could include hundreds of actors and actresses in both lists, because I love the acting art with a rapturous passion, and I'm in awe of so many wonderfully talented actors. So, although I'm starting with these favorite names, I'll add new ones in the coming months, and the list will be more representative of my admiration for acting art and the artists who create it.
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE INDIAN ACTORS
| Rahul Bose Nana Patekar John Abraham Naseeruddin Shah Jackie Shroff Aamir Khan Om Puri Amitabh Bachchan Abhishek Khan Hrithik Roshan Sanjay Dutt Shah Rukh Khan Anil Kapoor Vivek Oberoi Salman Khan Ajay Devgan Irfan Khan Mithun Chakraborty Akshaye Khanna Sunil Shetty Kay Kay menon Imran Khan Arjun Rampal Akshay Kumar Boman Irani Saif Ali Khan Shahid Kapoor Arshad Warsi And many, many others … |
 Rahul Bose |
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE INDIAN ACTRESSES
Smita Patil
Tabu
Madhuri Dixit
Shabana Azmi
Nandita das
Rani Mukherjee
Karishma Kapoor
Kashmera Shah
Deepika Padukone
Shilpa Shetty
Pretty Zinta
Malaika Arora
Aishwarya Rai
Lara Dutta
Kajol
Kangana Ranaut
Diya Mirza
Bipasha Basu
Juhi Chawla
Genelia D’Souza
Neha Dhupia
Celina Jaitley
Parveen Babi
Rekha
Vidya Balan
Manisha Koirala
Hema Malini
Madhubala
SOME OF MY FAVORITE CRIME MOVIES
- Payback, directed by Brian Helgeland
- The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks
- Crank, directed by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor
- The Getaway, directed by Sam Peckinpah
- Point Blank, directed by John Boorman
- Get Carter, directed by Mike Hodges
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, directed by Guy Ritchie
- Snatch, directed by Guy Ritchie
- The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston
- Rififi, directed by Jules Dassin
- The Samurai, directed by John-Piere Melville
- The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak
- Runaway Train, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Carlito’s Way, directed by Brian De Palma
- American Me, directed by Edward James Olmos
- Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker
- Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma
- Borsalino, directed by Jaques Deray
- City On Fire, directed by Ringo Lam
- Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- Blood Simple, directed by Joel Cohen
- And hey, this list will get a lot longer, na?