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Bobby Deol
Vijay Singh Deol (born 27 January 1969), better known by his screen name Bobby Deol, is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi cinema. He has also appeared in Tamil and Telugu films. A member of the Deol family, he is the younger son of actor Dharmendra and the younger brother of actor Sunny Deol.
After appearing as a child artist in Dharam Veer (1977), Deol had his first lead role in the romance Barsaat (1995), which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He subsequently starred in the commercially successful action thrillers Gupt (1997), Soldier (1998), Badal (2000), Bichhoo (2000), Ajnabee (2001), and Humraaz (2002). For Humraaz, he received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
This was followed by a career downturn, during which his notable commercial successes were the ensemble films Apne (2007), Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), Race 3 (2018), and Housefull 4 (2019).
In the 2020s, Deol found renewed success with the streaming projects Class of '83 (2020), Aashram (2020–present), Love Hostel (2022) and The Ba***ds of Bollywood (2025). He gained further acclaim for playing a villain in the top-grossing action film Animal (2023), which earned him a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Deol was born as Vijay Singh Deol in Bombay on 27 January 1969 into a Punjabi Jat family affiliated with the Arya Samaj, a Hindu monotheist and reformist movement. He is the younger brother of Sunny Deol and also has two sisters Vijayta and Ajeeta who live in California. His step-mother is Hema Malini, through whom he has two paternal half-sisters, actress Esha Deol and Ahana Deol. His cousin Abhay Deol is also an actor. He is the paternal uncle of Bollywood actors Karan Deol and Rajveer Deol. Bobby completed his schooling at Mayo College in Ajmer, Rajasthan. After completing his schooling he obtained a bachelor of commerce degree from Mithibai College in Mumbai.
He married Tanya Ahuja in 1996; the couple has two sons.
Deol made his acting debut as an adult alongside Twinkle Khanna in Rajkumar Santoshi's 1995 romance film Barsaat, where he played 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. The film was a superhit at the box office and garnered him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He replicated this success with his next starring role in Rajiv Rai's suspense thriller Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997) alongside Manisha Koirala and Kajol, as a man accused of murdering his stepfather over an engagement proposal and wrongly imprisoned. Besides commercial profitability, Gupt was highly acclaimed for its storyline and soundtrack. His other release of 1997 was Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya alongside Aishwarya Rai, which flopped at the box office.
Deol's first release of 1998, Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Kareeb, became his second consecutive flop. He teamed up with Abbas–Mustan for the first of many collaborations in the military thriller Soldier (1998), co-starring Raakhee and Preity Zinta, in which played the son of a man who was convicted of arms smuggling. Soldier received positive response from critics, eventually proving to be a superhit and his third major commercial success after Barsaat and Gupt. By this time, Deol's popularity rivaled that of the top actors, including the three Khans, his brother Sunny Deol, and Govinda. His sole release of 1999 was the unremarkable love triangle Dillagi, directed by his brother Sunny Deol.
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Bobby Deol
Vijay Singh Deol (born 27 January 1969), better known by his screen name Bobby Deol, is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi cinema. He has also appeared in Tamil and Telugu films. A member of the Deol family, he is the younger son of actor Dharmendra and the younger brother of actor Sunny Deol.
After appearing as a child artist in Dharam Veer (1977), Deol had his first lead role in the romance Barsaat (1995), which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He subsequently starred in the commercially successful action thrillers Gupt (1997), Soldier (1998), Badal (2000), Bichhoo (2000), Ajnabee (2001), and Humraaz (2002). For Humraaz, he received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
This was followed by a career downturn, during which his notable commercial successes were the ensemble films Apne (2007), Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), Race 3 (2018), and Housefull 4 (2019).
In the 2020s, Deol found renewed success with the streaming projects Class of '83 (2020), Aashram (2020–present), Love Hostel (2022) and The Ba***ds of Bollywood (2025). He gained further acclaim for playing a villain in the top-grossing action film Animal (2023), which earned him a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Deol was born as Vijay Singh Deol in Bombay on 27 January 1969 into a Punjabi Jat family affiliated with the Arya Samaj, a Hindu monotheist and reformist movement. He is the younger brother of Sunny Deol and also has two sisters Vijayta and Ajeeta who live in California. His step-mother is Hema Malini, through whom he has two paternal half-sisters, actress Esha Deol and Ahana Deol. His cousin Abhay Deol is also an actor. He is the paternal uncle of Bollywood actors Karan Deol and Rajveer Deol. Bobby completed his schooling at Mayo College in Ajmer, Rajasthan. After completing his schooling he obtained a bachelor of commerce degree from Mithibai College in Mumbai.
He married Tanya Ahuja in 1996; the couple has two sons.
Deol made his acting debut as an adult alongside Twinkle Khanna in Rajkumar Santoshi's 1995 romance film Barsaat, where he played 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. The film was a superhit at the box office and garnered him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He replicated this success with his next starring role in Rajiv Rai's suspense thriller Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997) alongside Manisha Koirala and Kajol, as a man accused of murdering his stepfather over an engagement proposal and wrongly imprisoned. Besides commercial profitability, Gupt was highly acclaimed for its storyline and soundtrack. His other release of 1997 was Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya alongside Aishwarya Rai, which flopped at the box office.
Deol's first release of 1998, Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Kareeb, became his second consecutive flop. He teamed up with Abbas–Mustan for the first of many collaborations in the military thriller Soldier (1998), co-starring Raakhee and Preity Zinta, in which played the son of a man who was convicted of arms smuggling. Soldier received positive response from critics, eventually proving to be a superhit and his third major commercial success after Barsaat and Gupt. By this time, Deol's popularity rivaled that of the top actors, including the three Khans, his brother Sunny Deol, and Govinda. His sole release of 1999 was the unremarkable love triangle Dillagi, directed by his brother Sunny Deol.