D O B January 27,1967
Languages Hindi
Place of Birth Mumbai
Known For Actor
Married Yes

Biography Bobby Deol born as Vijay Singh Deol on January is a Bollywood actor Born into an acting family of Jat ethnicity Deol is the son of the acclaimed Bollywood actor Dharmendra and the brother of Sunny Deol also a successful actor in the Mumbai based Indian film industry Deol has been featured mostly in thriller films often playing wealthy but vulnerable middle class characters affected by the corrupt establishment and women and often propelled into crime to avenge the deaths of loved ones His films commonly involve themes of jealousy deceit and revenge and in his more romantic thrillers often involve him caught in love triangles Deol was awarded the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his role in the film Barsaat and was later nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in Humraaz in Bobby Deol was born into a Jat family and is the second son of Bollywood movie star Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur He is the younger brother of Sunny Deol born Bobby Deol was born in Mumbai Maharashtra India He has two sisters Vijeyta and Ajita and two half sisters from his father's second marriage to actress Hema Malini Esha Deol and Ahana Deol More Actor Abhay Deol is his cousin Bobby Deol is married to Tanya Ahuja with whom he has two sons His eldest son Aryaman was born in June His second son was born on November and was named Dharam after his father Deol first briefly appeared as a child actor in the film Dharam Veer in Just ten years old at the time he played the younger version of the film's lead actor his father Dharmendra Deol then made his adult debut with Twinkle Khanna in the Bollywood film Barsaat directed by Rajkumar Santoshi Deol plays the character of Badal a naive but intelligent young man who moves from a small village to the big city and gets caught up with corrupt police and criminal gangs amidst falling in love Partly shot in Scotland Deol broke his leg in an equestrian accident while filming and had to be flown to London to recuperate and had to call off several publicity shoots which documented his debut The film was nonetheless a considerable success and garnered him the Filmfare Best Debut Award In Deol starred in Gupt The Hidden Truth a suspense thriller directed by Rajiv Rai considered his breakthrough role Cast alongside Manisha Koirala Kajol Paresh Rawal Om Puri and Raj Babbar Deol played the role of Sahil a young man accused of murdering his step father over an engagement proposal and wrongly imprisoned He escapes and tracks down the real killer Gupt The Hidden Truth was highly acclaimed for its storyline and soundtrack and was a major commercial success In the same year Deol appeared in Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya alongside Aishwarya Rai in her debut Bollywood role In Deol starred opposite Neha in the Vidhu Vinod Chopra film Kareeb br br Deol played the character of Birju an irresponsible young man from an upper middle class family in Himachal Pradesh with a love of petty thievery and deceit Later in he appeared in Abbas Mustan's military thriller Soldier alongside Raakhee Gulzar and Preity Zinta Deol played the mysterious character of Vicky later revealed as Raju son of Vijay Malhotra who was convicted of arms smuggling In Deol starred in Dillagi directed by and co-starring his brother Sunny Deol The film is noted for being the first time Sunny Deol directed a film and also the first time he acted alongside Bobby This pairing was repeated in rd March Shaheed and Apne Dillagi features the two as the brothers Ranvir and Rajvir fighting for the affection of Shalani Urmila Matondkar In Deol appeared in the action drama Badal alongside Rani Mukerji under the director's helm of Raj Kanwar The film is set in when riots were engulfing parts of Punjab and Delhi Deol plays the character of Badal a boy who witnesses the massacre of his family and villagers by a corrupt police official Police Inspector Jai Singh Rana Ashutosh Rana and grows up to be a dreaded terrorist fuelled by the anger and hatred of the authorities who wrongly deprived him of his family and friends The film is inspired by The Devil's Own starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford Following this he starred alongside Karisma Kapoor in Hum To Mohabbat Karega and reunited with Rani Mukerji to star in Bichhoo a blatant remake of Luc Besson's film Leon starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman In Bichhoo Deol plays Reno's role Jeeva a young man from a struggling middle-class family who has the misfortune of falling in love with the wealthy Kiran Malaika Arora Her cruel disapproving father in rage at their relationship has Jeeva's mother and two sisters publicly arrested for prostitution and eventually all three kill themselves Jeeva becomes a professional killer and later extracts vengeance against Kiran's father and his henchmen The film and Deol's performance was panned by the critics with Sakanya Verna of Rediff com citing the film as one of the most painful of the year and commenting Bobby Deol's performance is quite well robotic He religiously hangs on to a brooding expression right through the film Why o why doesn't someone insist he goes to an acting school n although filmed in Deol starred alongside Karisma Kapoor Rahul Dev and Smita Jaykar in Aashiq Following this he featured in Abbas Burmawalla and Mustan Burmawalla's thriller Ajnabee alongside Kareena Kapoor Akshay Kumar and Bipasha Basu The film adapted from the American thriller film Consenting Adults features Deol as Raj the new husband of Priya Malhotra Kapoor who after moving to Switzerland and initially befriending their neighbours Kumar and Basu become entangled in a web of deceit and extra-marital activity Ziya us Salaam of The Hindu was unconvinced with Deol's performance remarking that he only occasionally manages to transmit fear of the fugitive In Deol starred alongside his brother Sunny in the historic film rd March Shaheed Set in British India it depicts the events leading up to the hanging of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and his companions Rajguru and Sukhdev on March The film stars Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh and Sunny Deol as another revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad The film received a mixed reception from critics with some good reviews Rediff com believed the movie had plenty of good moments and plenty of bad ones and believed the film was superior to that of the original on Bhagat Singh although they believed the agony of Bhagat Singh's fight was underplayed diminishing the brutality and anguish suffered in the real life event While Deol was praised for some scenes he was criticized for shouting and Rediff believed he was overshadowed by Ajay Devgan remarking In terms of performance Devgan is clearly the winner with the advantage of a stronger script and a better director Devgan who reportedly lost weight to look the part is today emerging as one of India's finest actors willing to try out different roles Deol tries his best but it is difficult to shout and act simultaneously Later in Deol was nominated for the prestigious Filmfare Best Actor Award for his role as a suave wealthy shipping businessman in Abbas-Mustan's romantic thriller Humraaz The film is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder remade in as A Perfect Murder and features Deol in a love triangle with Akshaye Khanna and Amisha Patel The film was generally praised by critics with Chitra Mahesh of The Hindu saying Bobby Deol spends the entire first half looking moony eyed and spaced out but overcomes the stupor towards the end where he actually gives a good performance Deol's final film of was David Dhawan's Chor Machaaye Shor in which he played Shyamm alongside Paresh Rawal Shilpa Shetty Bipasha Basu and Om Puri a small time crook who gets his hands on some diamonds worth millions In Deol took a hiatus from acting and returned to the screen in in Kismat opposite Priyanka Chopra In Bardaasht a drama based on the screenplay written by Vikram Bhatt Deol starred alongside Lara Dutta and Rahul Dev as Aditya Shrivastav a deserted army officer The film deals with themes of police brutality and corruption and justice Deol then played another army officer a Lieutenant Commander in Anil Sharma's Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo as Kunaljit Singh Vikramjeet Singh The film which featured some prominent Bollywood actors such as Amitabh Bachchan who played a general and Deol's father and Akshay Kumar it was arguably Deol's highest profile film to date but despite high box office expectations it was a commercial failure His most famous role of all time in ab tumhare watan satio was when he wore a pugh turban That gave him more audience from the Punjabi crowd and had gotten comments saying he looks better in a turban In Deol starred in Vikram Bhatt's thriller Jurm as the wealthy businessman Avinash Malhotra who suspects his wife Sanjana Lara Dutt of having an affair with Rohit Milind Soman Deol's performance was praised by a number of critics with Vivek Fernandes of Rediff com remarking Bobby Deol Bhatt's schoolmate does his alma mater proud with his controlled performance There's a sense of maturity about his candour which is good news Deol then starred alongside Sanjay Dutt Sunil Shetty and Ajay Devgan in Mani Shankar's war movie Tango Charlie as an Indian trooper named Tarun Chauhan of the st BSF Battalion operating in the northeastern Indian province of Manipur He followed this role by featuring in Suneel Darshan's romance film Barsaat as the ambitious young Indian Arav who in living in the United States becomes involved in a love triangle with beauties Priyanka Chopra and Bipasha Basu The film was not a critical success with Ziya us Salaam of The Hindu concluding A moth-eaten love triangle with all the stereotypes Bollywood survives on - a devoted wife with her karva chauth ki thali the other woman with her mini-skirts a joint family songs festivities No shower of rejuvenation this Barsaat is just drenched in mediocrity She was equally unimpressed with Deol's performance remarking The girls are ready with their curls and curves the guy just appears lost making you wonder if Bobby has grown even an inch as an actor since he made his debut in Rajkumar Santoshi's film by the same name His final role of was as Karan in Dosti Friends Forever opposite Akshay Kumar Lara Dutta Kareena Kapoor and Juhi Chawla He once again plays a wealthy businessman but is down on his luck with his finances and romancing women The film although performing below average in India was a major success in the United Kingdom where it became the highest grosser of Bollywood in grossing around In Deol starred in the romantic musical film Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai Deol played Raj a character who falls in love with Durga Amisha Patel a beautiful blind woman with a talent for shaping pottery but faces competition from Rohit Arjun Rampal Deol and Patel have been labelled as the Bollywood equivalent of Hugh Grant and Rene Zellweger Although the film received a mixed reception a number of critics praised Deol's performance as Raj with Taran Adarsh commenting Bobby Deol is only getting better as an actor He manages to register an impact in a film that belongs to Amisha and Arjun primarily Later that year he made a brief special appearance in Alag in the song Sabse Alag