The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - I !!

I am more passionate about Ravana's than the Rama. However, I am completely opposite of category of good basher and evil hugger. I was from a different era where we saw quite a few evil characters in Bollywood. Almost, all movies had a one such. Honestly, those days we were really scared of those fellas. Yet, today we hate to hate them because they were not the villain in their real life as we projected when we were kid. Current phase we hardly see a villains in the long run. They come and they fizzled before noticed. The hero's of bollywod doing overtime be it villain or a comedian, hero’s coming with a complete package. Therefore there are hardly any actors around whom we can term as villain as it was decades before. With the demise of Pran, the golden era of gentleman villains comes to an end. Here are few names who entertained us throughout the generation and made the Hero’s out of nothing.

K. N. Singh

K. N. Singh was a prominent villain of Hindi films. K. N. Singh came to acting by way of law, giving up his first career in 1937 to pursue his newfound interest in performance. More often than not, Singh found himself portraying a "gentleman" type of villain, usually costumed in a fine suit and hat, and smoking a pipe. His career spanned six decades and included over 200 films. In 2000, he died at the age of 91.

Madan Puri

Madan Lal Puri had four siblings, among elder brother Chaman Lal Puri, younger brother Amrish Lal Puri  was known to Indian audience. He was the first cousin of the legendary singer K.L. Saigal, with whose help he started to make a mark in Bollywood. Once Puri was an established star he did the same for his brother the late Amrish Puri by helping him in establishing himself in the movie world. Puri had an acting career which spanned over 40 years from the 1940s through to the mid-1980s. He appeared in more than 300 films. He was one of the greatest villains in Bollywood.

Premnath

Premnath made his film debut in Ajit  and  then he got a major roles in Raj Kapoor's first directorial film Aag and Barsaat which was his first major success. Premnath went on to appear in many films for the next three decades, some of which were the biggest blockbusters in Indian film history. He played the central villain role or supporting role were some of the biggest blockbusters in Indian film history. He died in 1992 of a heart attack at the age of sixty-six.

Ajit

Hamid Ali Khan, better known by his stage name Ajit acted in over two hundred movies in almost four decades. His first movie as a villain was Suraj and with films such as Zanjeer and Yaadon Ki Baaraat, there was no looking back for him. He died in 1998 at the age of seventy-six.

Kanhaiya Lal

Kanhaiya Lal Chaturvedi staged his own written play Pandrah August in Mumbai, later he tried his luck in films. In 1940 he got a role of moneylender in a Mehboob Khan's film. After that he later acted in many films as a character artist. When Mehboob Khan was directed his immortal film Mother India he again picked Kanhaiya Lal to act as Sukkhi Lala, a character that came alive with his natural acting.

Jeevan

Jeevan, who acted as Narad Muni in mythological films of the 1950s. Later he essayed the role of a villain in many films of the 60s, 70s and 80s.  He died in 1987 at the age of 72.

!!!There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare !!!