Actor Sunny Deol spoke about the spectacular year that his family has had, both professionally and personally. In an interview, he said that his brother, Bobby Deol, never got his due, and that he is pleased to see him being appreciated for his performance in the record-breaking hit, Animal. Sunny himself delivered the biggest hit of his career, Gadar 2, earlier this year. And before that, their father, Dharmendra, stole the show in Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani.
Speaking to NDTV, Sunny said that it was Prakash Jha’s crime series, Aashram, that changed Bobby’s career. The actor had been out of action for several years before restarting his acting journey in 2018. Released on MX-Player, Aashram is considered to be one of the most-watched Indian streaming shows of all time. Sunny said, “I’m so, so happy for him. It’s high time it happened. I can say now, people were not fair to him. I can’t talk about myself, but I can talk about him. They’ll call him a ‘sweet boy’, but nobody is doing anything. They know his capacity, they know his persona, but nobody let it happen.”
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Sunny said that as a family, the Deols don’t believe in taking shortcuts. “The journey is the beauty,” he said, as he spoke more about Bobby’s resurgence. “It was overdue. He became successful with Aashram. That went to the grassroot level, it was the most-watched thing in the country,” he said, admitting that he himself hasn’t watched the show, because he ‘can’t see Bobby playing such roles’. Sunny said that he couldn’t bear to watch Animal either, and stormed out when Bobby’s character was killed.
He said, “I watched it, but… Animal is a great film, it’s a nice film. People are loving it. I’ll have my bits and pieces about any film, even my own films. That’s me, it ain’t gonna change. But I’m not going to talk about it… When I was seeing Bobby being killed, I just got out of the seat and I couldn’t take it. I just wanted to go out and do something.” Previously, Bobby had said that to perform a particular scene in the film, he imagined losing Sunny in real life. “As actors, we use incidents in our lives to bring that emotion. We have a bank full of them. My brother means the world to me. When I was performing that scene, it was as if I’ve actually lost my brother. And that’s why, when I was emoting, it felt real,” he told iDream Media.
Bobby also revealed in an earlier interview that his mother, Prakash Kaur, was very upset by Animal, especially with what happened to his character Abrar. “My mom couldn’t handle my death scene. She was like, ‘Aisi film mat kiya kar tu, mujhse nahi dekha jaata (You shouldn’t do films like this, I can’t watch them).” I told her, ‘Look, I’m standing in front of you, I just played a part’. But she’s very happy…” he told Pinkvilla. Animal has emerged as the third-biggest Indian film of the year, having made nearly Rs 900 crore worldwide.
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