According to tradition, the villainous tendencies were defeated by the virtuous ones. But whenever the scripts for unconventional villains were written, Govind Namdev was the chosen one. And Govind Namdev proved it quite right that the faith in him was quite proper. His portrayal of an undefeated villain set a confident path for him and the filmmakers too to create unconventional roles.

He proved himself successfully in his pathbreaking villainous characters twice, in internationally renowned Indian director Shekhar Kapoor's "Bandit Queen" and in talented director John Matthew Matthan's "Sarfarosh".

Govind Namdev immortalised the paralysed Thakur with an intense inner strength in Priyadarshan's "Virasat". His lip movements, facial expressions, body language, sound pattern, emotions of a helpless man through eyes and exact utterances of a real paralysed person was a perfect manifesation of the master actor's nuances in powerful acting. Critics and audience both appreciated this performance .

Assured by his versatile acting capacities, while the shooting of "Virasat" was continuing, Priyadarshan, the maestro in South Indian and Bollywood film direction, instantly offered him an unbelievable and quite unexpected role of "Pongad" a humourous, happy and colourful character in his new film "Saat Rang Ke Sapne".