Kartik Aaryan, Tovino Thomas, Bhavin Rabari: Five acclaimed performances from 2022

Some seasoned Indian A-listers, many of whom have been reigning for decades, still can’t deliver their dialogues with the right pauses, must watch Jayasurya in Meri Awas Suno. He is an actor in the truest sense of the world. He has had brilliant performances earlier in films like Sunny, Vellam, Captain and Shakespeare M.A. Malayalam. Jayasurya in Meri Awas Suno is in a league of his own. He plays a radio jockey who loses his voice to cancer. Jayasurya walks us through his character’s fall and rise with such deep empathy it’s reminiscent of William Hurt in The Doctor where he too survived throat cancer. The life-changing process is beautifully adumbrated in both the films. The man is incredibly into his part. Watch him in the sequence where in a fit of (unspoken) anger he tries to strangle his wife. Goosebumps. Slow clap.