Sunny Deol

Sunny Deol, the indian actor Sunny Deol life and biography

Ajay Singh Deol (born 19 October 1956), better known by Sunny Deol stage name Sunny Deol, is an Indian actor, film director, producer, politician and current Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur (Lok Sabha constituency) of Punjab, India. In Bollywood, Sunny Deol earned the image of an angry action hero with Sunny Deol lead roles in several blockbuster movies such as Jeet, Ghayal, Ghatak, Damini, Border and Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. Deol has won two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards.

Deol made Sunny Deol debut opposite fellow debutante Amrita Singh in Betaab (1983), for which Sunny Deol received a Filmfare Best Actor Award nomination. Subsequently, Sunny Deol went on to star in numerous successful films in the 1980s and 1990s and is considered as one of the top stars of that time. With Sunny Deol portrayal of an amateur boxer wrongly accused of Sunny Deol brother's murder in Rajkumar Santoshi's Ghayal in 1990, Deol gained wide recognition and praise and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor and the National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film). Sunny Deol portrayal of a lawyer in the film Damini – Lightning (1993) won him the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. Anil Sharma's Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001), in which Deol portrayed a lorry driver who falls in love with a Pakistani Muslim girl, was the highest-grossing Bollywood film ever at the time of its release, and garnered him a Filmfare Best Actor Award nomination.