Vijay Varma’s big screen debut started with Chittagong in 2012. It was followed by late Satish Kaushik’s Gang of Ghosts (2014) and Priyadarshan’s Rangrezz (2013).
Pink was a breakthrough film for Vijay where he played a deeply misogynistic person —Ankit Malhotra. He played a menacing character and delivers a very convincing performance.
Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy (2019) saw Vijay Varma as a neighbourhood crook Moen who was also a friend of Ranveer Singh’s Murad. The Bollywood actor owned the part.
In Darlings (2022), Vijay Varma played an alcoholic, abusive husband named Hamza to Alia Bhatt’s Badru. The actor received a lot of positive hate for his portrayal of Hamza.
In Dahaad (2023) he is absolutely terrific both as a middle-class married man struggling to make ends meet and as a serial killer who has severe unresolved issues with his father.
In Kaalkoot (2023), Varma’s Ravi Shankar Tripathi played a different depiction of a cop. As this was after the Dahaad, his vivid portrayal made the audience forget his earlier performance.
In Sujoy Ghosh’s Jaane Jaan (2023), Vijay appeared as a charming cop. It was the closest he came to doing romance. He gave the film some much-needed lighter moments.
Vijay Varma is now 37. He has already done 24 films, including web series. Here’s hoping that our filmmakers will tap his potential much more in future.