Sunny Deol, born on October 19, 1957, celebrates her 67th birthday today.
Sunny Deol’s on-screen image is that of an angry action star and his short-tempered nature has been very popular in real life as well. Sometimes strangling Anil Kapoor, sometimes having enmity with Shahrukh, sometimes having an argument with his mother-in-law Hema Malini. These few things were the highlights of Sunny’s life.
There were many media reports about his affair with Dimple Kapadia and Amrita Singh. The situation had even reached the point of demolition of the house.
Sunny Deol’s career took a turn for the worse between 2010 and 2020. All his films were failures. Then Gadar-2 was released in 2023. Made on a small budget, this film raked in more than Rs 500 crore. With this, Sunny Deol returned to his old form. Now he has many films back to back. Sunny Deol, born on October 19, 1957, celebrates her 67th birthday today.
Today, on Sunny Deol’s 67th birthday, check out some special stories related to her personal life and career…
Sunny Deol’s wife Pooja Deol has always been away from the limelight.
Sunny’s wife belongs to the British royal family Sunny Deol studied acting at the Old World Theater in Birmingham, England. During this time, he falls in love with a girl named Linda. Less than a year after her Bollywood debut, Sunny secretly married Linda in England in 1984. After her marriage to Sunny, Linda changed her name to Pooja Deol. Pooja’s mother, June Sarah, was of British origin. He belonged to the British royal family.
Amrita Singh started liking Sunny a lot It was during the filming of ‘Betaab’ that Amrita Singh started being attracted to Sunny Deol. She had started to like Sunny a lot. Amrita felt that Sunny was perfect to become her life partner. However, Sunny wasn’t ready for this. When Amrita learned about Sunny and Pooja’s relationship, she was heartbroken. Amrita also later learned that Sunny was married to Pooja in England.
Dimple’s daughters called Sunny Papa. After Amrita Singh, Sunny Deol’s name was linked to Dimple Kapadia. Dimple Kapadia and Sunny Deol worked together in the film ‘Manjil-Manjil’. The closeness between the two is said to have increased on the sets of this film. At that time, Dimple Kapadia was living separately from Rajesh Khanna. Sunny often visited Dimple’s house. It is also said that Dimple’s two daughters, Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna, have started calling her Chote Papa.
Sunny’s wife threatened to leave home with the kids After ‘Manzil-Manzil’, the pair Sunny Deol and Dimple were seen in films like ‘Arjun’, ‘Aag Ka Gola’, ‘Gunaah’ and ‘Narasimha’. When Sunny Deol’s wife Pooja felt that her husband Sunny and Dimple’s relationship was getting deeper, she threatened to leave the house with both children. Sunny kept his distance from Dimple to save this relationship.
Hema Malini was attacked with a knife in anger, his mother had called this news false When Dharmendra and Hema Malini got married, Sunny Deol was 23 years old. At that time, a lot was written in the media about the marriage of Dharmendra and Hema Malini. Then it came to light that, upset by this news, Sunny Deol angrily attacked Hema Malini with a knife and she was injured. However, in an interview, Sunny Deol’s mother Prakash Kaur had said that it was true that they were all hurt by Dharmendra’s marriage, but they did not give such values to their son that he would do such things.
Anil Kapoor strangled during filming Sunny Deol and Anil Kapoor were first seen together in the film ‘Joshile’. When Anil Kapoor’s name was first mentioned in the credits of this film, Sunny Deol got very angry. Sunny Deol expressed his anger in the film ‘Ram Avtaar’. According to media reports, what came to Sunny Deol’s mind during the action scene was that he actually strangled Anil Kapoor. Sunny didn’t stop even after the director said to cut. In such a situation, the film’s director Sunil Hingorani himself had to intervene to free Anil Kapoor.
There were also disagreements with Shahrukh Khan During the filming of the film ‘Dar’, there was a rift between Shahrukh Khan and Sunny Deol, due to which they did not speak to each other for years. In fact, Shahrukh played a negative role in the film. He had to kill Sunny Deol with a knife in one scene. Sunny didn’t agree with this scene. He played the role of a commando in the film. He thought that how can anyone kill a person fit like a commando with a knife.
Yash Chopra wasn’t ready for a change of scenery Sunny spoke to the film’s director, Yash Chopra, about changing the scene, but Yash Chopra was not ready to change the scene. Sunny got angry. His hand was in his pants pocket and his anger had increased so much that his pocket burst. Sunny also felt that he was the main hero, but Shahrukh continued to take all the credit. After the release of this film, Shahrukh and Sunny’s relationship deteriorated. However, at the blockbuster party of the film ‘Gadar-2’ in 2023, both of them were seen burying their grudges and kissing each other.
Sunny to be seen in Rajkumar Santoshi’s film after 27 years ‘Ghayal’, ‘Ghatak’ and ‘Damini’ made under the direction of Rajkumar Santoshi are popular films in Sunny Deol’s career. Sunny Deol also received the National Award for Best Supporting Actor for ‘Damini’. Rajkumar Santoshi and Sunny Deol did not work together after this film. Today, after 27 years, Sunny Deol is working on the film “Lahore 1947” under the direction of Rajkumar Santoshi.
Reason for breakup between Santoshi and Sunny Deol The breakup between Rajkumar Santoshi and Sunny Deol happened when both were doing films on Bhagat Singh. Rajkumar Santoshi was to direct Sunny Deol’s film ‘March 23, 1931: Shaheed’, in which Bobby Deol played the lead role, but Rajkumar Santoshi chose to direct Ajay Devgan starrer ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’. The two films competed at the box office. Since then, a rift had happened between Rajkumar Santoshi and Sunny Deol.
‘Gadar-2’ is the first film of Sunny Deol’s career, which has joined the Rs 500 crore club. The gross of Gadar 2 exceeded the total number of hit films he could earn in his 41-year career.
We spoke to director Anil Sharma on the occasion of Sunny Deol’s birthday.
Director Anil Sharma doesn’t believe in Sunny Deol’s return from Gadar 2 Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2 is the most successful film of his career. He makes a big comeback with this film. However, the film’s director Anil Sharma doesn’t see this as a comeback of Sunny. He said, “People are saying that Gadar 2 marked the comeback of Sunny Deol. I don’t believe it. He had never been there, so where would the return come from?
Sunny Deol’s eyes were filled with tears after listening to the story Anil Sharma said, “I didn’t believe Gadar-2 would be made. If you want to make a sequel to a film like ‘Mother India’, it is not possible. Exactly the same problem existed with Gadar – Ek Prem Katha. But we felt there was a part missing that a story could be told about. What happens when Tara Singh’s son ‘Jeete’ grows up? When we developed the story and told it to Sunny, her eyes filled with tears. There was definitely a question in his mind: how would this happen? I assured him that everything would be done.
Gadar couldn’t be imagined without Sunny Deol I wanted to make a period film. I always thought Sunny Deol was the best actor in our film. We thought about the story and when Tara Singh’s character came in, we felt there was no better actor than Sunny for it. At that time, he was shooting in Ooty. I went to Ooty to tell him the story. After listening to the story for 10 minutes, he only had one question: Will this movie look real? I assured them it would be like that.
Sunny said the story was completely Involve will remain After listening to Gadar’s story, Sunny asked a question. I said, can I get involved in this story? He falls asleep early in the evening, but continues to discuss the story for 3-4 hours that night. The next morning he said: I’m making a film, start preparing. Whatever question came to Sunny’s mind before the shooting, she asked without any hesitation. However, once the shooting started, he never intervened.
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