Recently, the 2019 IIFA awards were announced and in celebration of 20 years of IIFA, ‘The Special 20 Award’ was introduced.
Deepika Padukone won The Special 20 Award for Best Actor (Female) for her role in the 2013 romantic comedy Chennai Express.
While Chennai Express was a blockbuster, the story and the performances were definitely not the best that Bollywood has seen in the past 20 years. In fact, here are some incredible performances that Bollywood has witnessed over the years that do have a better claim to the award:
1. Tabu in Astitva
2. Urmila Matondkar in Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya
3. Karisma in Zubeidaa
4. Tabu in Chandni Bar
5. Nimrat Kaur in The Lunchbox
6. Kareena Kapoor in Chameli
7. Urmila Matondkar in Ek Hasina Thi
8. Rani Mukerji in Black
9. Konkona Sen Sharma in Page 3
10. Vidya Balan in Parineeta
11. Kareena Kapoor in Omkara
12. Priyanka Chopra in Fashion
13. Kareena in Jab We Met
14. Vidya Balan in Ishqiya
15. Radhika Apte in Parched
16. Priyanka Chopra in 7 Khoon Maaf
17. Vidya Balan in The Dirty Picture
18. Sridevi in English Vinglish
19. Raveena Tandon in Daman
20. Priyanka Chopra in Barfi!
21. Konkona Sen Sharma in Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
22. Vidya Balan in Kahaani
23. Deepti Naval in Listen… Amaya
24. Alia Bhatt in Highway
25. Kangana Ranaut in Queen
26. Geetanjali Thapa in Liar’s Dice
27. Anushka Sharma in NH10
28. Kalki Koechlin in Margarita With A Straw
29. Richa Chadda in Masaan
30. Swara Bhaskar in Nil Battey Sannata
31. Alia Bhatt in Raazi
32. Ratna Pathak Shah in Lipstick Under My Burkha
33. Vidya Balan in Tumhari Sulu
34. Tabu in Andhadhun
35. Preity Zinta in Kya Kehna
36. Radhika Madaan and Sanya Malhotra in Pataakha
37. Konkona Sen Sharma in Wake Up Sid
38. Deepti Naval in Firaaq
39. Kalki Koechlin and Mahie Gill in Dev.D
40. Gul Panag and Ayesha Takia in Dor
41. Mahie Gill in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
42. Alia Bhatt in Udta Punjab
43. Priyanka Chopra in Aitraaz
44. Shweta Tripathi in Haraamkhor
45. Tabu in Haider
46. Aishwarya Rai in Raincoat
47. Karisma Kapoor in Fiza
48. Tabu in Maqbool
49. Swara Bhaskar in Anarkali of Aarah
50. Taapsee Pannu in Pink
51. Juhi Chawla in My Brother… Nikhil
52. Urmila in Bhoot
53. Neena Gupta in Badhaai Ho
54. Tisca Chopra in Taare Zameen Par
55. Chitrangada Singh in Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
Know of any other performances that deserve to be on the list? Let us know in the comments section below.
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