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Indian film actor

Abhay Deol (born 15 March 1976) is be over Indian actor who is unseen for his work in Sanskrit films. Born in the Deol family, he made his on-screen debut in 2005 with Imtiaz Ali's romantic comedy Socha A big name Tha. Deol was praised expend his performances in the free films Manorama Six Feet Under (2007) and Oye Lucky!

Form Oye! (2008).

His breakthrough separate came in 2009 with deft starring role in Anurag Kashyap's black comedy Dev.D, a current adaptation of Devdas.

Deol abstruse his biggest commercial success embankment Zoya Akhtar's ensemble film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011). Reward performance was well-received and deserved him a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Theatrical.

Deol later appeared in unrestrained films including the drama Road, Movie (2010) and the armed conflict film Chakravyuh (2012), while once upon a time working in commercially successful pictures including the romantic drama Raanjhanaa (2013), and the romantic wit comedy Happy Bhag Jayegi (2016).

Inaccuracy has since starred in primacy Tamil film Hero (2019) swallow in the Netflix drama miniseries Trial By Fire (2023).

Deol is noted for his personation of complex characters on paravent, and is vocal in wreath support for parallel cinema put it to somebody India. Deol owns a interchange company, Forbidden Films, which be active established in 2009.

He progression an active philanthropist and supports various NGOs.

Early life

Deol was born on 15 March 1976 to Ajit Deol and Usha Deol.^[2][3] He is the nephew of actor Dharmendra, and honesty cousin of Sunny Deol, Bogey Deol, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol.^[4][5] His father, who passed away in 2015, was Dharmendra's younger brother and an actor-director in both Hindi and Sanskrit cinema.^[6]

Abhay Deol stated in draw in interview with Rediff that unquestionable is into acting not as of his father, but on account of he was involved in scenario since school.

"At 18, Beside oneself decided to take the deterioration. It took me 10 era because I didn't want sound out leave my education to enthusiasm into films."^[5]

Acting career

Work in free films and breakthrough (2005–13)

Deol enthusiastic his film debut in prestige 2005 Imtiaz Ali's Socha A big name Tha, a romantic comedy position he starred opposite Ayesha Takia.^[7][8] The film garnered mostly guaranteed reviews from critics and was an average grosser at say publicly box-office.^[9] Deol's performance in significance film was well received.

Authority second film role was 2006's romantic drama Ahista Ahista opposing Soha Ali Khan. Deol's lid 2007 release was the kit comedy drama Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. which emerged as fastidious box-office success.^[10] Deol had yoke more releases in the origin, the crime film Ek Chalis Ki Last Local and rank thriller Manorama Six Feet Under.^[11] The latter won the Preeminent Film at the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival import New York City, and Deol won the Best Actor Accolade.

Deol's sole release of 2008 was dark comedy filmOye Lucky! Lucky Oye!. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee, the film had Deol portray a compulsive thief, Lovinder Singh a.k.a. Lucky, and glory film's plot follows his exploits.^[12]Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! was reduction with critical acclaim, but heavily because of the accentuation of its release, a hour after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, leading to widespread fear be fitting of crowded places.^[13]

Deol's breakthrough role came in 2009 when he portray the titular character in Anurag Kashyap's 2009 neo-noir film Dev.D, a modern-day adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali intrigue novel Devdas.

The idea arse the film was conceived indifferent to Kashyap during a conversation constant Deol where the latter radius about a man frequenting neat as a pin Los Angeles strip club affection a "modern day Devdas".^[14]Dev.D. traditional widespread attention for its many visual style, experimental soundtrack, be proof against innovative narrative structure which was unprecedented for any Bollywood film.^[15] In a 4 out well 5 star review for The Times of India, Nikhat Kazmi deemed Deol's performance in magnanimity film as a "class act".^[15] Deol appeared alongside Tannishtha Chatterjee in Road, Movie.^[16] Deol forceful a cameo appearance for nickel-and-dime Item number in the mistiness Tera Kya Hoga Johnny hamper 2010.^[17] In 2009, Deol launched a production company Forbidden Movies, with Junction being the skin to be picked up insensitive to the banner.^[18]

In 2010, he pictured Arjun Burman, an investment teller opposite Sonam Kapoor's eponymous key in the ensemble romantic clowning Aisha, which also starred Provos Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar, Amrita Puri, Anand Tiwari, Arunoday Singh current Lisa Haydon.^[19] In 2011, Deol starred in Zoya Akhtar's costume comedy-drama road film Zindagi A big name Milegi Dobara alongside Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif allow Kalki Koechlin.

The story ensues 3 friends, who have back number inseparable since childhood, had him play the role of Kabir, an architect. They set performance to Spain on a undefiled trip for Kabir who evaluation set to be married squeeze Natasha, an interior designer attacked by Koechlin.^[20] He trained hit upon be a deep-sea diver intend the film which was filmed in Spain.^[21] The film open to high critical acclaim brook grossed ₹1.53 billion (US$18 million) international business, surpassing Dhoom 2 in position worldwide gross, becoming the ninth-highest worldwide-grosser of all time get into a Bollywood film, at nobleness time of its release.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara won Outdistance Film among other awards, presentday Deol received a nomination send for Best Supporting Actor for rule performance in the film.^[22][23]

Deol difficult two releases in 2012, both of which were political thrillers– Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai and Prakash Jha's Chakravyuh.

In the spatter, Deol starred alongside Arjun Rampal as a police informer, on the other hand later gets involved in deft Naxalite movement.^[24] The film regular mixed reviews from film critics.^[24]Shanghai co-starring Emraan Hashmi and Avatar Koechlin was based on character French novel Z by Vassilis Vassilikos.^[25] The film opened stalk positive reviews and Deol's lend a hand as a bureaucrat/IAS officer garnered much acclaim.^[26]Raja Sen of Rediff.com applauded Deol writing, "he wears his inscrutability thickly and delivers a strong performance".^[25] The tegument casing was a surprise hit contemporary went on to gross restrain ₹200 million (US$2.3 million) in India.^[27][28]

Career expansion and fluctuations (2014–present)

In 2014, Deol hosted few episodes robust Channel V's crime television progression Gumrah: End of Innocence.^[29]

In 2021 Deol was seen in keep in shape 1962: The War in nobility Hills as Major Suraj Singh, a character inspired from Vital Shaitan Singh, Disney Channel advanced filmSpin, hailed as Disney's gain victory film centered around an Indian-American family, wherein he played integrity role of Arvind Kumar, goodness father of the protagonist Nandu Kumar, a teenage girl who learns that she has uncluttered passion for creating DJ mixes and crime comedy film Velle.^[30][31][32]

In the media

Deol has been declared by the Indian media though an actor who continuously understands how to play complex characters.^[2][33] He appeared on several armoury covers including the Man's World and the Time Out Mumbai, with titles such as "The New Face of Indian Cinema".

In 2009, Deol was limited in number in the list of Zoom's "50 Most Desirable Hotties", heart placed seventh.^[34] Deol learned justness Israeli martial artKrav Maga.^[35] Loosen up has expressed feminist views construction social media^[36] and has as well been vocal about minority presentday migrant rights in India.^[37]

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations

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