Move over Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan — it’s Rani Mukerji, Shefali Shah, Kajol taking over Bollywood’s cop universe | Bollywood News
For decades, we have seen Bollywood actors depend heavily on characters such as a cop, a spy, or an Army officer to resurrect a dying career, and when thrill and gravity-defying action sequences are added to this mix, it makes for a perfect potboiler. One of the earliest and most iconic examples of this is Amitabh Bachchan, whose career was revived with Zanjeer in 1975. The film transformed Big B’s career from that of a “failed newcomer” to the phenomenon of the ‘Angry Young Man’. Even superstars who came after him, including Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, followed the same formula. When Salman faced a series of commercial failures between 2006 and 2008, he decided to return to the screen as the morally ambiguous cop Chulbul Pandey. He was not virtuous like Big B’s Vijay Khanna, but he had his own ways of holding up the law. Similarly, when Shah Rukh Khan saw back-to-back flops with Jab Harry Met Sejal and Zero, he went on a five-year-long hiatus, only to return as a spy …
