Looking back at the maestro’s versatile art that left us hungry for more

Boseman’s career is marked by some critically well-acclaimed performances where he portrayed pioneering African-American champions. Albeit his career was cut abruptly and tragically short, it is speckled by gems one feels like revisiting

A list of the stalwart’s five stellar performances ranked in no particular order.

Get on Up, Boseman’s Electrifying Best

The James Brown musical biopic uses a jukebox narrative style which oscillates between Brown’s childhood and adulthood. Boseman employs an admirable degree of flair and dexterity while playing for the age range of 16 to 60.

Get on Up tries for sure to capture James Brown’s layered contradiction and multiple reinventions, and Boseman gives a brilliant shape to this fun-soul legend whose contribution to American music extends beyond his dynamic signing and liveliness.

Marshall, Thurgood Marshall’s Courtroom Drama

The theatrics of this courtroom drama and its fairly unconventional take on legal drama work in favour.  Boseman plays Thurgood Marshall, aptly recreating on screen the historical persona and activist lawyer who is revered for his undaunting commitment to justice. Boseman did a marvellous job in inculcating Marshall’s fierce idealism and charisma and not without his eccentric theatrical movements and speeches.

Critically Renowned Captain America: Civil War

A legitimate and deserving competitor to Avenger’s monopoly, Captain America: Civil War

stars Boseman as T’Challa and presents a stunning Afrocentric heroism restoring love and faith in the concept of (super)heroism. Boseman shines in this finest and perhaps most quintessential Marvel movie which has still managed to retain its position as the best-reviewed superhero movie; timeless in appeal.

Defining and Timeless, Black Panther

Black Panther remains emblematic of the actor’s cultural legacy—a major part of his ‘manifesto’ about the kind of stories he wanted to enact on screen. The audacious and surreal rendition of Marvel’s Black Panther legend has rendered it a treasure for cinema lovers and art critics. Hailed as the alternative to mainstream white America, Black Panther has Boseman playing T’Challa, a prince whose dominating traits are vulnerability, style and sensitiveness.  Set against the backdrop of dirt-poor Wakanda, the film is futuristic and a cinematic genius.

21 Bridges, a Power-Packed Police Thriller

Boseman must have enthusiastically lapped up the opportunity to branch out and diversify himself as an actor with this NYC police thriller, and it is a treat for us! The cinema offers us some well-choreographed chase sequences and a plot that deftly cinematises prejudice, violence and a seedy world of conspiracy. What elevates 21 Bridges, besides Boseman’s Davis, is director Brian Kirk’s brusqueness.