Top10 Male Actors of 2008 (Bollywood)

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There are clear expectations that one has from top actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan year after year. Though with an exception of Salman Khan (who by the way had a horrible 2008 professionally) all the other aforementioned actors did justify their standing in the Top-5, there were also men like Ranvir Shorey, Emraan Hashmi and Abhishek Bachchan who sprung a surprise. While Naseeruddin Shah maintained his standing as an actor par excellence, newcomers like Imran Khan and Farhan Akhtar did wonderfully well too. Lets go down the memory trip and brings back the performances that enchanted us most.

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10 Ranvir Shorey (MITHYA)

This was a sad-n-happy performance by a man who can be molded as per the requirement of any script. With no hang-ups about being suitable only for the lead roles, when given a chance to play one, that too in a double role, Ranvir Shorey came up with a cracker of a performance. As a commoner who is forced to live the life of a gangster courtesy the circumstances beyond his control, he was mostly flawless in this offbeat film that also earned moolah at the box office. The young man would certainly be seen in many more meaningful performances in years to come.

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9 Emraan Hashmi (JANNAT)

What AWARAPAN couldn't do, JANNAT did it for Emraan Hashmi. Though in former he came up with his best performance ever, it was the latter that brought in moolah at the box office. A low budget film that went on to make crores for it's makers, JANNAT brought in 'jannat' for Vishesh Films that had seen back to back failures in AWARAPAN and DHOKHA. Emraan Hashmi was just the right face to depict the journey of a small time cards player to one of the leading match fixers and his naughty grin along with mischievous glint in the eyes worked wonders once again. He was back in the reckoning with
JANNAT.

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8. Abhishek Bachchan (DOSTANA)

He rocked and how! One wonders how Abhishek Bachchan was keeping the balance intact when shooting for diverse films like DOSTANA, SARKAR RAJ and DRONA simultaneously. For the first time ever, one saw Abhishek Bachchan on screen as a man that he is in real life and one could sense that he was truly enjoying all the fun both on and off the screen. Leave aside the entire gay angle; Abhishek Bachchan truly demonstrated an altogether different facet of his personality with DOSTANA. Not many actors could have dared running in a feminine manner the way he did in the Venice sequence; something that was just good enough for the price of a ticket!

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7. Imran Khan (JAANE TU YA JAANE NAA)

There was no news about this young man for almost two years when the film was on floors. And then when the film was two months away from its theatrical release, there was only one man who was being talked about - Imran Khan. So much so that the other debutant whose movie released on the same day as JAANE TU YA JAANE NAA, Harman Baweja, was more or less eclipsed. Imran Khan turned out to be quite a charmer in his just-graduated-from-college boy role and within hours of the film's release, he was elevated as the nation's newest heartthrob. Though KIDNAP did push him back a little, one would still want to remember him as the chocolate boy whose eyes never fail to communicate just the right emotion.