Well I was certain that many would start to bash him front and back for why he is getting his wax statue and blah blah.
Just tell me how many actors out there gave performances like Haider, Kaminey, Udta Punjab like Shahid did. He even won Filmfare best actor award for his role in Haider. And got Filmfare best actor critics award for Udta Punjab. He was one of those very few actors who was rarely ever criticized for their acting performance.
If you look at his back story then you all will see how he has revolved. Starting from a life of a background dancer, it has never been easy for him to start out his film career in Bollywood. Neither he was ever offered roles in platter like the nepo kids. He had to struggle for a long time and got rejected in the auditions again and again unless Ken Ghosh noticed him for his acting talent and gave him the role for Ishq Vishq. Still he had to survive for a long time. In his earlier life he used to live in a small apartment and had to earn his bread and butter by teaching dancing in Shiamak Davar's class. His upbringing was never ever luxurious. He was mainly known as a chocolate boy in Bollywood but then he broke the barrier and surprised everyone by his double roles in Kaminey. Then he had done some challenging roles including movies like Badmaash Company, Haider, Udta Punjab, Rangoon, R Rajkumar. Many of his movies might have flopped or did average but his acting was never a flop, that's why he was always praised by the critics and the directors are still eager to work with him. Shahid is very well recognized in Bollywood for his dancing skill as well that he has eventually become a judge for Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. I would not write so much, but just tired of so many unending bashing at him! He had to go through a lot to reach where he is today, in his place the other actors would have just given up and do nothing.
In fact he is really very underrated actor who deserves to get more recognition.
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