Actor Farooq Shaikh on Marlon Brando’s performance in The Godfather
The Godfather (1972), which I watched in London at the time of its release, can never go off the list of the best films I’ve seen and it shall always stay there. I’ve obviously seen so many great films down the years but this film will always remain my favourite. The first time I watched it, I was absolutely thrilled and have never got bored of it. I guess I must have watched it at least a dozen times since. In the way the director, Francis Ford Coppola, unfolded the narrative and cleverly created the situations, he reinvented the grammar of cinema.

Marlon Brando, who played the film’s principal character, Don Vito Corleone, was outstanding. His performance is a textbook in acting. Every actor in the world has tried to emulate his acting skills, best manifested in this movie.
For me, to try to incorporate nuances of his performance in my acting would be far too ambitious and far-fetched. I would never have been able to come close to him. That is why his performance was a classic.