Sunny deol (born ajay singh deol, 19 october 1956)[1][3] is an indian movie actor, director and producer known for his works solely in hindi cinema. He is the son of veteran actor dharmendra, and the elder brother of actor bobby deol and esha deol.

In a movie profession spanning over thirty years, deol has gained two national film awards, and filmfare awards. Container office india indexed deol as the overall celebrity of the Nineties.[4]

Deol made his debut inside the movie betaab for which he changed into nominated for the filmfare award for quality actor. From there, he went on to big name in numerous movies within the Eighties and 90s like tridev, arjun, kroadh, ghayal, vishwatma, lootere, darr, damini – lightning, jeet, ghatak, border, ziddi, arjun pandit, and indian. He made his debut as a director and producer with dillagi, in which he also starred alongside his brother bobby. Deol made his debut contrary fellow debutante amrita singh in betaab (1982), which was a blockbuster that launched the careers of each actors. His overall performance won him his first filmfare first-rate actor award nomination.[5]

Together with his portrayal of an newbie boxer wrongly accused of his brother's murder in rajkumar santoshi's ghayal, sunny added another hit movie to his film career. Produced by using the house banner vijayta movies, the movie became an immediately hit with the hundreds and went directly to win seven filmfare awards.[6] his performance won him filmfare award for quality actor and additionally country wide film award – unique jury award / special point out (feature film).[7] in 1991, sunny starred in approximately 5 films however most effective narsimha turned into a success. Rajiv rai's vishwatma wherein he acted opposite divya bharti, turned into sunny's handiest launch in 1992. His role of a legal professional in damini – lightning (1993) fetched him numerous awards and accolades which includes national movie award for excellent assisting actor and filmfare award for first-rate helping actor. In 1993, he starred in yash chopra's blockbuster darr with juhi chawla. In the mid-1990s he introduced 4 massive hits in a row jeet (1996), ghatak: deadly (1996), ziddi (1997) and border (1997)[8] in 1999, after starring contrary juhi chawla in arjun pandit, sunny deol tried his hand at route and helmed dillagi. He also acted alongside younger brother bobby deol and urmila matondkar in his directorial debut.

In 2001, he starred in the film farz contrary preity zinta.[9] sunny played the position of lorry driving force tara singh who falls in love with a muslim woman performed via ameesha patel in anil sharma's gadar: ek prem katha. The partition saga went to become an all-time blockbuster and become the very best grossing bollywood movie ever at that point in addition to the most important hit of the twenty first century, incomes rs 973 million in india.[10][11] he received display screen award for satisfactory actor and turned into nominated for the filmfare fine actor award for his portrayal.[12] his third release that 12 months saw him gambling the name function in the movement film indian, a remake of the tamil film vallarasu wherein sunny performed the individual of dcp rajshekhar azad, an honest police officer. The film was a success.[9] sunny's next few initiatives were extraordinarily patriotic in nature and struck a chord with audiences across the u . S .. He played the function of an indian army officer in maa tujhhe salaam and played the character of freedom fighter chandrashekhar azad in 23rd march 1931: shaheed.