Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15903
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Rajesh Sharma works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rajesh Sharma appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rajesh. Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, horror, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Priyadarshan, Buchi Babu Sana, Nitin Vaidya and others, Rajesh Sharma helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) as Senior Pakistani Police Officer · Mardaani 2 (2019) as Amit Sharma · Darlings (2022) as Kasim Kasai
Career snapshot
Ranked #15903 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Average Nutevio score
4.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Most frequent director
Priyadarshan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Priyadarshan
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
5.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Pati Patni Aur Woh, Dabangg 3, Tindey — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.9
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Pati Patni Aur Woh, Dabangg 3, Tindey.
Most productive era
2020s
14 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.41 film | 2.65 films |
| Action | 5.92 films | 3.73 films |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 5.64 films | 5.29 films |
| Crime | 5.92 films | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 3.32 films |
| Horror | — | 4.35 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Senior Pakistani Police Officer. 7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2019Mardaani 2
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
19 of 19 films
as Amit Sharma
Directed by Gopi Puthran
as Senior Pakistani Police Officer
Directed by Kabir Khan
as Kasim Kasai
Directed by Jasmeet K Reen
as Cook
Directed by Prakash Raj
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Amit Sharma
Mardaani 2 (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Amit Sharma gives Rajesh Sharma a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Senior Pakistani Police Officer
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
Performance score7.2
Bajrangi Bhaijaan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Senior Pakistani Police Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kasim Kasai
Darlings (2022)
Performance score7.1
Darlings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kasim Kasai is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Manoj Mittal
Crew (2024)
Performance score6.9
Crew asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manoj Mittal is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Amit Sharma
Start here. Mardaani 2 is the clearest statement of what Rajesh Sharma does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rajesh at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Mardaani 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Darlings (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Bajrangi Bhaijaan but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tadka (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Darlings but asks for a colder reading of it.
Crew (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Tadka but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kabir Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Gopi Puthran
Director
1 film together
Notably Mardaani 2
Jasmeet K Reen
Director
1 film together
Notably Darlings
Prakash Raj
Director
1 film together
Notably Tadka
Nitin Vaidya
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaal Trighori
Buchi Babu Sana
Director
1 film together
Notably Peddi
Priyadarshan
Director
1 film together
Notably Bhooth Bangla
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kabir Khan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bajrangi BhaijaanGopi Puthran
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mardaani 2Jasmeet K Reen
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DarlingsPrakash Raj
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TadkaBuchi Babu Sana
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PeddiPriyadarshan
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bhooth BanglaNitin Vaidya
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaal TrighoriSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
as Senior Pakistani Police Officer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tadka
as Cook
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
as Senior Pakistani Police Officer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Peddi
as Satya Prakash Mishra
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mardaani 2
as Amit Sharma
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Rajesh Sharma has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
as Senior Pakistani Police Officer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mardaani 2
as Amit Sharma
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fauzi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mardaani 2
as Amit Sharma
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mardaani 2
as Amit Sharma
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dabangg 3
as Minister
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
as Senior Pakistani Police Officer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Peddi
as Satya Prakash Mishra
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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