Which Former Lead Actor Should Have Had A Better Career?

[groucho070]

An idea came to me when I saw this post of HR's in his beloved Captain's thread. Plus it has been quiet lately and I am bored.

VIJAYAKANTH is the NO. 3 after RAJINI & KAMAL

If anyone disagrees with the above statement & want to say that there is ______ , which I haven't considered, then they can come with valid examples about their favourite.

Also, they can give the reason, at present, what made them to stop acting as a lead character:

i) whether they have retired
ii) or, they are made to retire by the people
iii) or they decided, its time to give some chance to the youngsters
iv) or whether they decided, let other serve for this industry, let me look after my family

Shall I list some successful lead actors starting from late 1970's who have competed with Vijayakanth.

Sivakumar
Sudhakar
Karthik
Mohan
Prabhu
Sathyaraj
Murali
Suresh
K Baghyaraj
R Pandiyarajan
Ramarajan
Anand babu
Chandrasekar
Nizhalgal Ravi

etc. etc.

As everyone knows, my main aim is to fill some pages & make this thread to touch 100 pages

I'd take Sathyaraj out, coz he is still doing lead roles. So, who's your favourite that you wish had better career because they are truly talented. Prabhu and Karthik have had their shot for two decades. Prabhu is doing character roles now, a good move.

For me.
Mohan should have had better career. Decent actor, and he is pretty good in all genres, he should have had at least ten more years of good career like Prabhu & Karthik.

[Thalafanz]

Ramarajan

[Vivasaayi]

Prabhu

[Raikkonen]

Bagyaraj.

[groucho070]

Prabhu had his shot, two decades of decent career. I'd say the same of Karthik. Sathyaraj overstayed in hero department, but doing okay in character roles. But Mohan who was once equal to them, should have done few more lead roles.

[Plum]

Ok, I'll add a pet topic of mine and say this aloud:
I feel the great Sivaji Ganesan could definitely have had an even better career than the monumental one he had. Especially, his full talent could have been utilised in later stages much better. He could have explored and displayed all nuances of acting if given the opportunity. As it is, our directors exploited only a limited subset of his capabilities.

Possibly, if Prabhu had been more talented, and emerged as a superstar in early 80s rather than just a star in late 80's, NT would have got the freedom to experiment without the pressure of earning for his family. Yes, I think in all possible weird ways of how this could have happened...

[groucho070]

Well, he did have a fantastic career, and I agree that from 80s onwards they should have made better use of him. If Prabhu had been a superstar, I think NT would have just retired and obliged to friends or relatives occasionally, just like how he did back in the 90s. Passing of his brother, his manager, did not help either.

[viraajan]

Ramarajan

[groucho070]

Looks like this thread will have short career too

[hattori_hanzo]

I'd take Sathyaraj out, coz he is still doing lead roles. So, who's your favourite that you wish had better career because they are truly talented. Prabhu and Karthik have had their shot for two decades. Prabhu is doing character roles now, a good move.

For me.
Mohan should have had better career. Decent actor, and he is pretty good in all genres, he should have had at least ten more years of good career like Prabhu & Karthik.

By genre, do u mean the kinds of movies he did or the roles he played? I don't think he was good in comedy or action movies. His forte was romance - musicals, breezy love stories, family dramas and tragedies.