Salman Khan to Amitabh Bachchan: Bollywood's most iconic onscreen cops

Cop movies have lately become obsession of Bollywood. audiences too seem to have a knack of watching actors playing cops on silver screen as most of cop movies in contemporary times have landed up being chartbusters at box office. Bollywood loves cops irrespective of wher are y spoofed in comic movies or protagonists of a hard-hitting drama, cops have been regular figures in Hindi cinema of present and past.

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Here is list of most iconic on-screen cops of Bollywood:

1) Vijay Khanna- Zanjeer

charismatic character of Vijay Khanna portrayed by original angry young man of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, is one of most iconic characters that we have seen on silver screens. way Big B depicted role of Vijay and transferred his personality and aura into character of inspector will always be one of remarkable performances of his. This is, by far one of finest performances of Amitabh. 

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2) Bajirao Singham- Singham

Ajay Devgn as Singham played character of a gritty, truthful and a -nsense cop came out as a winner amongst audience. attitude Devgn carries throughout film as a fierce cop is undoubtedly commendable.  collaboration of Rohit Shetty- Devgn has always proved to be effective at box-office and Singham was exception as re were two installments of film too were made titled Singham 2 and Singham 3, both starring Ajay Devgn.

3) Shivani Shivaji Roy - Mardaani

Rani Mukerji as Shivani Shivaji Roy in Mardaani will always be one of most iconic female cops played by any actress in history of Bollywood. Rani proved that women apart from item numbers of playing sidekicks of male protagonist can do way beyond and excel. Rani played a strong character who stands against a child trafficking racket run by a mor-son duo in movie.

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Chulbul Pandey- Dabangg

Salman Khan's Dabangg broke all stereotypes of how a police officer is or should be. Salman, as Chulbul Pandey came out to be a stylish and slick cop which was lauded by audiences and movie, did exceptionally well too at box office. self-proclaimed Robinhood had layers to his character, from being a Romeo in love to a hard-hitting cop in movie.

5) Meera Deshpande - Drishyam

Tabu, in Drishyam, plays role of a cop and a mor who has lost her son. She constantly switches between two roles with utmost poise and her experience in trade is pretty prominent. It becomes difficult to imagine that who could have played role of Meera Deshpane better than Tabu?

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