I cannot write so knowledgeably about Shah Rukh or Salaman or Aamir Khan. But I can about these two, because they were a part of my impressionable years.
Both played a role in shaping our thought processes through many roles they played in films. For example, Rajesh Khanna became a heart-throb of many in his Aradhana, whose songs are popular till date. He followed up with many memorable roles, in Amar Prem as a rich and loveless zamindar who finds [love in an unexpected place, in Safar as an artist on the death row. But the best role in my view was in Anand, with a unique view about life and death.
Amitabh was quite different. Full of angst about issues facing society, and also personal angst as in Sharaabi, he mostly got branded as an Angry Young Man (with Mithun Chakraborty being branded as the Poor Man's Amitabh by some evil journalists (Shobha De, maybe?). Deewar is one of his better roles, and Amar Akbar Anthony and Namak Halaal topped in the Entertainment Quotient. Of course, his comic talent also came to the fore in Chupke Chupke. Abhimaan was too serious for my liking. Muqaddar ka Sikandar was also a decent role.
About SRK, I think his best role was in Kundan Shah's Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa- my favourite.
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