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Kaamyaab: Celebrating ‘Kalakaars’ of Bollywood

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Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, Ratna Pathak Shah, Deepak Dobriyal, Vijay Raaz, Saurabh Shukla… the list goes on. They are not heroes in movies; this is list of ‘Kalakaars’ (Artists). These are so called supporting actors without whose support the movies they act in will never be the same. However, hardly any of them ever get the recognition they deserve. ‘Har kissi ke hisse: Kamyaab’, now streaming on Netflix in India, is a call for attention to such supporting character actors. The movie, directed by Hardik Mehta, stars Sanjay Mishra – another one of those actors who belong to the above list. He plays the role of Sudheer, a successful supporting actor who is now past his heydays. As an actor, he has played every supporting role one can imagine mouthing (the now cliched but then popular) dialogues from the 80's and 90's. Realizing that he has done 499 movies in his career which ended abruptly, he wants to act in one last movie to complete 500 movies and ...