Bollywood Home» Popular Male Actors in Bollywood »Sunny Deol Down the ages, Bollywood has been blessed with actors, who have contributed in a great way. It is due to their histrionic capability and immense ability that Bollywood could achieve great success. Bollywood as the Hindi film industry, is popularly known as, is based at the glittering metropolis- Mumbai in India. In fact, it has known to lend an aura of glamour to Mumbai. In fact, it is actors in the category of Sunny Deol who have made Bollywood films popular all over the world. Sunny Deol made his debut in the year 1983, with the blockbuster hit 'Betaab'. It is to be noticed here that Betaab is also debut film of actress Amrita Singh, who was paired opposite Sunny Deol in this movie.

It is the film 'Arjun' released in the year 1985, that the audiences sat up and took notice of him. In this movie, he played the role of a youth, who forced by circumstance becomes a gangster. It is to be mentioned here that it is this movie that established him as one of the most popular action heroes of Bollywood.



It is in the year 1990 that Rajkumar Santoshi's film 'Ghayal' was released. Here we see him in the role of a boxer. He bagged the Filmfare Award for the category of Best Actor. However, apart from this award, this movie also won five Filmfare Awards in other categories. In the film 'Damini', we see Sunny Deol, once again delivering a powerful performance. This time in the role of a lawyer, who will not leave the path of truth and justice. It was for this sterling performance that the government of India honored the actor with the National Award.

Some of the other hit films of Sunny Deol, are 'Tridev'(1989), 'Vishwatma'' (1992), 'Imtihaan' (1995), 'Ghatak: Lethal' (1996), 'Ziddi' (1997), 'Border' (1998) and "Indian'' (2001). Sunny Deol, would be remembered for the romantic roles he enacted in films like "Chaalbaaz "(1989), 'Darr'(1993), 'Jeet'(1996) and 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'(2001). In all these movies, Sunny Deol has proved his versatility as an actor.

The actor has many awards to his credit. This includes the prestigious Star Screen Awards as well as the Zee Cine Awards.

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