The star of Indian cinema, Bobby Deol, who became famous for films in Hindi, belongs to the acting dynasty, widely known both at home and around the world. He was born on January 27, 1967 in the city of Bombay, having received at birth the name Vizhay Singh Deol.
Family and parents
The boy’s parents were the famous actor Dharmendra in the 1960s and his first wife Prakash Kaur. In addition to the future Indian movie star Bobby Deol, three more children grew up in the family - the older brother Sunny, who also made a successful career on the screen, and two younger sisters - Ajita and Vigita.
Later, when his father married a second time, Bobby had two stepsisters - Asha and Ahan. The boy’s stepmother was the famous actress and dancer Hema Malini, famous for her roles in box office films such as Zita and Gita and Revenge and the Law, where she starred with her husband.
Personal life
Little is known about the personal life of Bobby Deol himself. He is married to Tane Ahuja, with whom he brings up two sons - the older Aryaman and the younger Dharam, named after his grandfather, born respectively in 2001 and 2004.
The actor’s colleagues on the set in their interviews note that he is very attached to his family, devoted to his wife, adores his sons and is always eager to go home if he has to work away from his relatives. It is also known that Bobby knows three languages perfectly - native Punjabi, Hindi and English.
First success
The creative biography of Bobby Deol is a series of ups and downs. He first appeared on the screen at the age of 10 when he played his father as a child in the film "The Eternal Tale of Love." However, the real fame came to the young actor only in 1995, when he was lucky to get a role in the film "Rainy Season" (Barsaat; English Rain).
Here, Bobby plays a young man who has moved to a city from a small village and, thanks to a series of accidents, has been drawn into a confrontation between a criminal group and corrupt policemen. Part of the filming took place in Scotland, where the episode with riding ended for the actor with a broken leg.
The trauma did not allow Deol to take part in several advertising photo shoots, but the significant success of the film more than covered all missed contracts. The role in the film "Rainy Season" brought Bobby Deol the highest Bollywood Award - the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.
The most successful films of 1997-2002
Several Bobby Deol films have had overwhelming success at home. In 1997, as part of a brilliant ensemble of actors, Deol starred in the thriller directed by Rajiv Rai "Hidden Truth" (Gupt; English Secret), where he plays the role of Sahir - a young man who was unfairly accused of killing an adoptive father. The tape and the soundtrack to it were highly appreciated by critics and moviegoers, which brought logical commercial success.
The film "Good Name" (born Soldier), released in 1998, brought Deol another batch of recognition. The thriller about theft of weapons and corruption in the army, where the actor played a mysterious character, as it turns out during the story - the son of a man accused of smuggling, the audience appreciated and provided box office.
In 1999, Deol Sunny's older brother decided on a directorial debut. As a result, the movie “Dillagi” is released, which was the first where the Sunny and Bobby brothers played together. From the point of view of criticism, the plot of the tape was far-fetched and predictable, but the acting work of Bobby Deol was evaluated very positively.
In 2002, Bobby was again nominated for the Filmfare Award, now for the role of a successful businessman in the thriller Dream of a Scammer (Humraaz; Eng. Confidant), the creators of which were inspired by the American film "Perfect Murder". However, this time the award went around him, and the actor decided to take a break in his career. He returned to filming only in 2004.
In total, between 1997 and 2002, Bobby Deol took part in 9 films, 3 of which ended in obvious failures.
Successes of 2004-2017
A return to work did not bring the desired success to actor Bobby Deol, the next breakthrough in his career happened only in 2005. After a series of mediocre films, he takes part in the film "Friends Forever" (Dosti; Eng. Friends Forever), where the plot is based on the long-term disinterested friendship of two men from different walks of life. At home, the film was not very successful, but became the highest grossing among Indian films in the UK.
In 2007, the sports drama "Native People" (Apne; English Ours) with the participation of the entire male half of the Deol family was presented to the audience. Bobby and Sunny Deol played the role of boxing brothers, training hard in the hope of becoming champions, their elderly mentor was played by the head of the family - Dharmendra. The film became very popular in the north of India and provided good boxing in the UK.
The relative success of Bobby Deol can be called a secondary role in the 2008 film "Close Friends" (Dostana; English Friendship). The uniqueness of the picture was added by the fact that this is the first creation of Bollywood, completely filmed in Miami. Summing up the annual results of box office shows that the film took 8th position among the tapes in Hindi.
Creative failures prompted the actor to think of taking another time out - from 2013 to 2017, he did not star in any film. These years did not become a period of inactivity for him - Bobby tried himself as a DJ, and quite successfully.
However, returning to the profession did not triumph. The first film after a long break, Bobby Deol failed. To date, the actor is busy in two projects - "Crazy Family-3" (Yamla Pagla Deewana 3) and "Race-3" (Race 3).
The brightest dips
Along with successful and ordinary films, in the career of Bobby Deol, there were frank failures noted by the most respected Indian film critics.
In 2000, Bobby appeared on the screen in the image of an assassin in the movie "Scorpio", the plot of which had explicit references to Luc Besson's "Leon". Both the tape itself and the acting game of Deola received the most negative assessments. The critic Sakanya Verma, respected in India, in his review called him one of the most unpleasant films of the year, and Bobby advised him to go to acting school.
Deol's works in the films “And it will Rain” (2005) and “The Meeting That Gave Love” (2007), despite the brilliant cast, became box office failures, and Bobby's skill again received a dose of poison from critics. Famous reviewer Zia-us-Salaam was amazed at his low performing level and mediocrity.
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The result of Bobby Deal's many-year film career is 35 films. Even numerous failures did not alienate loyal fans from him - Bobby is one of the most beloved artists not only at home and among Indian immigrants in Britain, but also among fans of Bollywood cinema around the world.