Vijay Singh Deol, known by his screen name Bobby Deol, a member of the Deol family, the younger son of actor Dharmendra and brother of actor Sunny Deol, made his acting debut alongside Twinkle Khanna in Rajkumar Santoshi’s 1995 romance film Barsaat.
Bobby Deol took a three-year break after a run of box office flops as a consequence of a lack of work. Later, he revealed his confession on an episode of Koffee with Karan, “I gave up. I started feeling sorry for myself and just took up drinking a lot. I was just sitting at home and I used to keep cursing and saying ‘Why don’t people take me? I am good’. I think I became very negative about everything. I used to sit at home, my wife would work. And suddenly I heard my son saying ‘Mom, papa sits at home and you go to work everyday.’ And then something snapped in me and I said ‘No, I can’t do this anymore”.
Bobby Deol gets teary-eyed while recounting how his career struggles impacted him and his family.
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Bobby Deol’s comeback film was Animal with Ranbir Kapoor. After two or three years of struggling, he got immense appreciation for his acting and started getting other movie offers. The actor often spoke about the lowest point of his career and how it affected his family. Recently in an interview with screen, the actor broke down while speaking of his struggles. With teary eyes he said, “I did put them through hardship, my family. We are so close-knit, we live together and I know that they were going through pain by seeing me go through pain and there is nothing they could have done.”
Animal cemented Deol’s comeback in Hindi cinema. For his performances, he won a nomination for a Filmfare Award as ‘Best Supporting Actor’ as well as garnered him both the IIFA and Zee Cine Awards as’ Best Performance in a Negative Role.’
