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.
16 Facts About Sunny Deol
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Sunny Deol made his debut opposite fellow debutante Amrita Singh in Betaab, for which he received a Filmfare Best Actor Award nomination.
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Anil Sharma's Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, in which Sunny 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.
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Sunny Deol was born on 19 October 1956, in the village of Sahnewal in Punjab, India in a Punjabi Jat family, to Bollywood actor Dharmendra and Parkash Kaur.
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Sunny Deol has a younger brother Bobby Deol and two sisters Vijayta and Ajeeta who are settled in California.
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Sunny Deol is married to Pooja Deol and the couple has two sons, Karan and Rajveer.
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Karan Sunny Deol has made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi-language feature film Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas.
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Sunny Deol made his debut in the 1983 romantic film Betaab in which role he was praised and he was nominated for best actor at Filmfare Awards.
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Sunny Deol has appeared in Rahul Rawail's Arjun, in which he played the titular role of an unemployed youngster.
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Sunny Deol even won his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Rajkumar Santoshi's 1990 film Ghayal.
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Sunny Deol's first hit in the millennium was Anil Sharma's 2001 film Gadar.
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Sunny Deol appeared alongside his father Dharmendra and brother Bobby Sunny Deol together for the first time in Apne.
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In 2018, Sunny Deol appeared in Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se, the third film in the franchise.
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Sunny Deol will be seen in Apne 2 which will be releasing on Diwali 2021 it will star Dharmendra, Bobby Deol and Karan Deol.
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Sunny Deol joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 23 April 2019.
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Sunny Deol won the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections from Gurdaspur constituency against his rival Sunil Jakhar of Indian national Congress with a margin of 82,459 votes.