Sushant Singh Rajput Birth Anniversary: Kai Po Che, to MS Dhoni, remembering his best performances

Sushant Singh Rajput started his career as a dancer and later joined a theatre group. After making his name in the TV industry, courtesy of his performance in Ekta Kapoor's 'Pavitra Rishta', the actor switched to films and within a span of seven years, gave audiences critically-acclaimed movies like 'Kai Po Che', 'MS Dhoni: The Untold Story', 'Chhichhore', among several others.

With 'Kai Po Che', Sushant Singh Rajput made the transition from TV actor to Bollywood star. He portrayed a failed cricketer who became obsessed with the sport and eventually became a coach. Sushant, who co-starred with Rajkummar Rao and Amit Sadh, nailed his role and gave the industry's best debut performance that year.

With his brief role in the movie, people fell for his charm, and critics praised Sushant Singh Rajput for his on-screen honesty and simplicity. He played Sarfaraz, a Pakistani boy who falls in love with an Indian girl named Jaggu (played by Anushka Sharma).

Sushant Singh Rajput won the audience's hearts with his spectacular performance as Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the biopic. Many left spellbound, some were even confused about whether they watched Sushant or Dhoni on screen, clearly proving what a great actor Sushant was.

SSR as 'Mansoor Khan' in the heart-wrenching love story. The movie that marked the Bollywood debut of Sara Ali Khan was an inter-faith love story set around the tragic and infamous Kedarnath floods and landslides that took the lives of many in 2013.

Sushant gave another outstanding performance in Chhichhore, which was a huge box-office success. Sushant sped through different shades of his character Aniruddh Pathak, an engineering graduate battling divorce whose world comes crashing down when his only son attempts suicide after failing an engineering entrance exam.

Sushant Singh Rajput gave it all to play the character of Manny in the movie. 'Dil Bechara' was his last film, which was released on the OTT platform Disney Plus Hotstar after his death, also starred Sanjana Sanghi and was directed by Mukesh Chhabra.