Remember Daag: The Fire? The movie that starred Mahima Chaudhry in a double role along with Sanjay Dutt and Chandrachur Singh. It still bothers us that the movie was titled Daag: The Fire and not Aag: The Fire. Daag here doesn’t mean blot, but in Punjabi Daagna means losing everything in fire.
It has been 21 years since the movie released, and the first thing that comes to our mind when we think of it is -- where is Chandrachur Singh?
He has not been in the movie business for a long time now. What happened to him?
Like other forgotten heroes of his generation (for instance, Mukul Dev and Rahul Roy) he didn't appear on Bigg Boss to hog the limelight. He didn't even join politics like Sunny Deol or Urmila Matondkar, and neither did he buy an IPL team like Preity Zinta. He is not even on Twitter retweeting grammatically incorrect compliments or on Instagram posting his oh-so-hot pictures that leave us pleasantly shocked!
Well, it’s good that he is not trying so hard and doing crazy things to stay in the limelight, but, where is he?
Fact is, you can tell a lot about the industry by how it treats its side heroes. There have been many like him who came, conquered and soon faded away in oblivion. So, this is our ode to Chandrachur Singh, the forgotten hero who could have been the Shah Rukh Khan of Bollywood.
After a stellar debut in Tere Mere Sapne and critically acclaimed performance in Maachis, followed by in 1996, it didn’t look like anything could go wrong for Chandrachur Singh. But luck wasn’t on his side, it seems.
In one of the best songs Bollywood has ever made, Chappa Chappa Charkha Chale, Chandrachur Singh’s smile was the highlight.
Did you know, Chandrachur Singh won filmfare best debut for Maachis.
