Short Biography
Vijay Singh Deol was born on 27th January 1969 in Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra, India. He is famous by his screen name Bobby Deol. He is an Indian Hindi film Actor. He has established himself as a successful actor in the Hindi film industry. He is best known for acting in thriller films like Gupt, Bichoo, Jurm, Badal, and Humraaz.
Bobby Deol Complete Bio & Career
Deol is the son of Bollywood actor Dharmendra and the brother of Sunny Deol, also a successful actor in the Indian film industry. Deol has mostly acted in thriller films, often playing antiheroic characters who are forced to commit crime to avenge the deaths of loved ones. Examples of such films include Badal, Gupt, Jurm and Bichhoo. His films commonly involve themes of jealousy, deceit and revenge and his more romantic thrillers often involve him caught in love triangles. Some of his successful films are Barsaat, Gupt, Soldier, Badal, Bichhoo, Ajnabee, Humraaz, Tango Charlie, Apne, and Yamla Pagla Deewana.
In 2003, Deol took a hiatus from acting and returned to the screen in 2004 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. In 2007, Deol starred in 6 films, however, none of them could do well at the box-office.
After a series of flops, he gave a hit in Yamla Pagla Deewana. This film’s sequel which released a couple of years later too was After few years of break, he made his comeback in 2017 with Shreyas Talpade's directorial venture Poster Boys alongside his brother Sunny Deol.