Bobby Deol

This pairing was repeated in 23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002), Apne (2007) and Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011) among others.

Dillagi features the two as the brothers Ranvir and Rajvir, fighting for the affection of Shalini (Urmila Matondkar).

Vijay Singh Deol (born 27 January 1969), better known as Bobby Deol, is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood.

A member of the Deol family, he is the younger son of actor Dharmendra and brother of actor Sunny Deol.

Deol was born as Vijay Singh Deol on 27 January 1969 into a Punjabi family in Bombay.

He is the second son of Bollywood star Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur.

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 uncle of Karan Deol and Rajveer 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.

Deol first briefly appeared as a child actor at the age of ten in Dharam Veer (1977).

The film is set in 1984 when riots were engulfing parts of Punjab and Delhi.

Deol plays the character of Badal, a boy who witnesses the massacre of his family and villagers by the corrupt Police Inspector Jai Singh Rana (Ashutosh Rana) and grows up to be a dreaded terrorist, fuelled by the anger and hatred of the authorities who wrongly deprived him of his family and friends.

Deol then made his adult debut in Bollywood alongside Twinkle Khanna in Barsaat (1995) directed by Rajkumar Santoshi.

Deol plays the character of Badal, 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 Super-Hit at the box office and garnered him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.

He married Tanya Ahuja in 1996; the couple has two sons.

He established himself with commercially successful action or thriller films, including Gupt (1997), Soldier (1998), Badal (2000), Bichhoo (2000), Ajnabee (2001), and Humraaz (2002).

The last of these earned him a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

In 1997, Deol starred in Gupt: The Hidden Truth, a suspense thriller directed by Rajiv Rai, which is widely considered his breakthrough role.

Cast alongside Manisha Koirala, Kajol, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and Raj Babbar, Deol played the role of Sahil, a young man accused of murdering his stepfather over an engagement proposal and wrongly imprisoned.

He escapes and tracks down the real killer.

Gupt: The Hidden Truth was highly acclaimed for its storyline and soundtrack and was a major commercial success.

In the same year, Deol appeared in Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya, alongside Aishwarya Rai in her debut Bollywood role.

Despite high expectations, it flopped at the box office.

The film is inspired by The Devil's Own (1997), starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford.

Badal proved to be a box office hit.

In 1998, Deol starred opposite Neha in the Vidhu Vinod Chopra film, Kareeb.

Deol played the character of Birju, an irresponsible young man from an upper-middle-class family in Himachal Pradesh with a love of petty thievery and deceit.

Later in 1998, he appeared in Abbas Mustan's military thriller Soldier, alongside Raakhee and Preity Zinta.

Deol played the mysterious character of Vicky, later revealed as Raju, son of Vijay Malhotra who was convicted of arms smuggling.

The film proved to be a Super-Hit at the box office.

In 1999, Deol starred in Dillagi, directed by and co-starring his brother Sunny Deol.

The film is noted for being the first time Sunny Deol directed a film and also the first time he acted alongside Bobby Deol.

In 2000, Deol appeared in the action drama Badal alongside Rani Mukerji, under the director's helm of Raj Kanwar.

Following this, he starred alongside Karisma Kapoor in Hum To Mohabbat Karega (2000), and reunited with Rani Mukerji in Bichhoo (2000), a blatant remake of Luc Besson's 1994 film Leon, starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman.

It was followed by a career downturn, during which his commercially successful films were the ensemble films Apne (2007), Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), Race 3 (2018) and Housefull 4 (2019).

He has since starred in the streaming ventures Class of '83 (2020) and Aashram (2020–present), and had a supporting role in the top-grossing action film Animal (2023).

The lattermost earned him a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.