But the 28 year old wasn't done. After his stupendous effort with the bat, he had more entertainment to offer in the field.
'With his passing, Indian cinema has lost its most undaunted voice, a voice of unsettling truths, a window to history, a school of filmmaking.'
On her 50th birthday on November 1, Sukanya Verma raises a toast to Bollywood's Golden Girl and 15 of her noteworthy performances.
Gems you can enjoy from the time he was at his handsome and magnetic best.
After a dry, dreadful, spell of darkness and desolation, it looks like Bollywood love stories are ready to rock the silver screen again.
They cited the lack of trust in the leadership of O Ibobi Singh and said that due to him, the Congress failed to form the government even when it was the single largest party in the state.
It goes way beyond a fantastic team!
Sukanya Verma lists the memorable use of trees in Hindi movies.
Pramod Singh Kushwaha, then the additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) and who headed the investigation team, said each member of the team pitched in to prepare a watertight case against the convicts.
As often is the case on celluloid, romanticising death is as significant as making every moment count where a young life's passing makes the realisation all the more heartbreaking and momentous.
Kannada movie Sakkare is a sugar coated movie with a message that says life is not so complicated
You won't know what hit you!
Haaziq Kazi, disturbed by the damage we have done to marine life, has designed a solution to save the oceans.
Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.
'This colliding of worlds is a feature of chawl life in Mumbai, where the clashes in one household often become prime-time television for the neighbours; where the boundaries of good sex, lechery, and incest are frequently blurred,' says Sreehari Nair.
The very filmi Valentine's Day Special!
Baahubali: The Conclusion doesn't enlarge the scope of the first picture or deepen its meaning, feels Sreehari Nair.
It reminds us why we like to watch films, writes Aseem Chhabra.
While Mussoorie is the nerve point with all the hustle bustle of the tourist activities, Landour lies quietly reminiscent of a 19th century British suburb.
Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do.