Top 10 Bollywood screen cops
With Dabangg 2 releasing this Friday, here is a look at the top 10 Bollywood screen cops.
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Salman Khan, Dabangg (2010): Chulbul Pandey isn't just one of Salman Khan's best loved screen roles, he's also top of the cop pops. With his bulging muscles, neat moustache, stylish sunglasses and witty one-liners, the rough and tough Chulbul is everyone's favourite law man.
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Aamir Khan, Talaash (2012): No stranger to playing intense on-screen, Aamir's realistic and gritty portrayal of Inspector Surjan Shekhawat, a man on a personal and professional quest in Mumbai's underbelly, was a more assured echo of his turn as a policeman in 1999's Sarfarosh.
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Shashi Kapoor, Deewar (1975): Inspector Ravi Verma, asked to hunt down his gangster brother, remains one of Shashi Kapoor's best known mainstream roles, and gave him perhaps the most famous dialogue in the history of evocative Bollywood one-liners: mere paas ma hai (I have our mother).
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Manoj Bajpayee, Shool (1999): From the golden age of Ram Gopal Varma comes his then-favourite actor Manoj's portrayal of Inspector Samar Pratap Singh who loses everything including his wife and daughter in the line of duty. RGV's writing and Manoj's powerful performance steered the film to a National Award.