Anushka Halve
Ranbir Kapoor has played the sadboi over and over again, portraying men with achey-breaky hearts who have gone on to achieve cult status.
One of Salman Khan’s most iconic performances is as a sadboi. Radhe, a violent good Samaritan with a memorably bad haircut.
Aditya Roy Kapur’s most memorable performance is Sadboi Supreme Rahul Jayakar, a rockstar drowning in his drink.
Sad doesn’t begin to describe the idea of Sanjay Dutt playing a Booker Prize-winning novelist, but then again, isn’t the point of fiction to imagine the impossible?
Dhanush plays a persistent, bordering on problematic loverboy Kundan who falls deeply in one-sided love with Zoya (played by Sonam Kapoor). As Kundan experiences the highs and lows of love, the emotional rollercoaster transforms him from loverboy to sadboi.
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