8. Abhishek Bachchan (Sarkar Raj, Drona, Dostana)
Abhishek Bachchan has had a bit of an up-and-down year but finished strongly with a virtuoso performance in Dostana together with an outrageously camp John Abraham. In fact, Abhi’s performance in his previous movie Drona, alongside Priyanka Chopra in something like a fur bikini, was captivating enough – there’s nothing quite like a well-fed superhero to give you confidence – but the script wandered a bit too far into the realms of fantasy so to speak. Earlier in the year, he put in a fine performance in Sarkar Raj and he’s currently working very hard on Delhi 6 with Sonam Kapoor and Ravana with his missus once again. Abhi’s been around long enough now to adopt a fairly phlegmatic view of his movies, “I feel success comes to you when it is due,” he says, “It’s as simple as that. It is not in my hand as to when success will come to me. I cannot say if a film will be a success or a failure.”
