The iconic on-screen Fathers

 

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align="right"/> Admit it. Cine-Ma is so called because it is obsessed with the mother figure. Whether it is Nargis The iconic on-screen Fathers

 

in Mother India or Nirupa Roy in Deewaar, Mama's a scene stealer while Dad is just a shadow. Does

 

anyone remember Raj Kumar or Satyen Kappoo in Mother India and Deewaar? Yet, there are films that

 

have explored the Dad's character with tender affection.

 

1. Aamir Khan in Akele Hum Akele Tum: 'But You Love Me Daddy', sang the child actor

 

(Master Adil) to Aamir Khan. As a man suddenly thrust with the responsibility of looking after a little son after

 

being abandoned by the lady of the family, Aamir Khan was fabulously frazzled trying to get the eggs in the omelet

 

and the buttons on the school uniform right. Though copied from a foreign source this Mansoor Ali Khan directed

 

film was a rare instance of film that showed the father as the home maker.

 

2. Amitabh Bachchan in Sarkar: Ram Gopal Varma is not known to invest too much time or space

 

into building emotions in his films. In tight close ups and clenched moments of camaraderie, Varma showed the

 

bonding between Big B and his son. The fact that the two actors were real-life father and son helped in giving a

 

sharp focus to the relationship although very little was said between them.

 

3. Naseeruddin Shah in Masoom: He was a bad dad. He had abandoned his one-night-stand girl

 

after impregnating her. And now the child, as cute and vulnerable as a little puppy shows up at his doorstep. The

 

father-son bonding scenes were filled with a credible camaraderie. The sequence where father and son trek together

 

to the sound of 'Tujhse Naraaz Nahin Zindagi' was remarkably resonant.

 

4. Anupam Kher in Daddy: Portraying a wastrel of a father, drunk and unsuccessful and still

 

getting your daughter to love you is not easy. Anupam managed to draw a beautiful balance between a man on the

 

brink of self-destruction and a father redeemed by his love for his daughter. It was a beautifully balanced-out

 

act, and one that managed to furnish dignity on the father's character.

 

5. Mehmood in Kunwara Baap: As a rickshawallah who plays parent to an abandoned child Mehmood

 

brought tears to millions of eyes. When he sang the lullabye 'Aa Ri Aa Ja Nindiya' to his screen son there

 

was not a dry eye in the theatre. Whether combing his son's hair or kissing his forehead Mehmood out-Nirupa Roy-ed

 

all the screen mothers. Mehmood's real-life son played his son in this sleeper hit.

 

6. Salman Khan in Jab Pyar Kissise Hota Hai: He played a Casanova who sows his wild seeds here

 

there and everywhere. Aditya Narayan (singer Udit Narayan) shows up as Salman's illegitimate son. Aditya gave

 

Salman tit for tat in every scene.

 

7. Akshay Kumar in Jaanwar: This was a very special father-son film where Akshay proved he

 

could act. Playing a ruffian who is reformed when a child pops into his life Akshay's tears flowed freely for his

 

screen son. In real life Akshay's father was terminally ill when he was playing father to little Aditya Kapadia on

 

screen.

 

8. Aamir Khan in Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke: He played papa to his sister's kids. There was

 

pandemonium as he tried to balance out the breakfast for the noisy demanding brood with a 9 to 5 job and a fiancée

 

who hated kids. Director Mahesh Bhatt showed the man going through what working women with family obligations have

 

to go through all the time.

 

9. Anil Kapoor in Mr India: Again, a very interesting reversal of traditional nurturing roles.

 

Kapoor cast as a father to a brood of adorable orphans while Sridevi played the working woman who had no patience

 

with kids.

 

10. Shammi Kapoor in Bramhachari: The story of man who runs an orphanage and somehow earns

 

enough to keep the kids well fed and clothed. The 'yahoo' Kapoor's empathy with his screen children was superbly

 

recreated in the kiddies having fun song 'Chakke Pe Chakka' and the lullaby 'Main Gaaon Tum So Jao'.

 

Shammi was also superb as a widower struggling to bring up his precocious little daughter in Ramesh Sippy's

 

Andaz.

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