Originally posted by: atominis
Dilip Kumar was called Nat Samrat and was first one to focus on method acting, voice modulation, body language, studying psychology of characters, focusing on camera angles etc.
He was never called overactor. He has done all sorts of roles well and was guru of many other actors be it Amitabh, Dharam, Rajesh Khanna, SRK himself etc.
He was better known for tragedy roles but it does not mean he was monotonous.
Today his films are dated and that style of acting is considered theatrical or less natural.
But at that time only he, Ashok Kumar, Balraj Sahni, Guru Dutt focused on nuances of body language, voice, diction.
Today we have more natural or relatable style of acting so modern audience may feel DK had no charisma or glamour or his style is dated or boring.
Chalo forget DK. Even Naseer, Om, Nawaz, Aamir, Saif, Hrithik, Manoj, Sanjay Dutt, Ajay are better actors than SRK. That is a fact that SRK is a severely limited actor and has literally 3 or 4 films which can be said to have some serious acting chops or depth or some different versatile role.
SRK remains SRK in each film. The man has never become the character and got under skin of characters he plays. CDI is the the only film where he became the character and let go of his typical mannerisms and style.
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