Updated On: 05 September, 2021 07:56 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
There’s a method and a tinge of madness behind that method. Look at his filmography and the characters, he speaks so softly you heart goes out to him, even when he’s the evil

Pankaj Tripathi Picture Courtesy: PR
Pankaj Tripathi’s loudest performance could be in his debut `Run`, in 2004. He’s over expressive and excited as he’s all set to con a common man who has come from Allahabad to Delhi to meet an old friend. He succeeds and the role ends, thus birthing a future meme on Choti Ganga. Poor Vijay Raaz!
Before the game-changing and career-shaping `Gangs of Wassepur` in 2012, there were multiple blink-and-miss roles that the actor signed, perhaps for passion and earning a living. Anurag Kashyap not only shaped Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s career but also made Tripathi an actor to look out for. In this two-part crime thriller, Tripathi played a butcher named Sultan Qureshi. Violence, Expletives, and Romance flew like wine in this dazzling drama.