Sunil Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer and entrepreneur predominantly active in Bollywood. He made his mark in the industry doing action-oriented films His films such as Balwaan, Dilwale, Anth, Mohra, Gopi Kishan, Krishna, Rakshak, Border, Bhai, Hera Pheri, Dhadkan a…
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| 1 | Starred in the shelved movie,Shree Jagdamba Movies Combine’s “Kashmir Hamara Hain” (Previously titled Mere Apne) (1998) Starring Mukul Dev (Replaced Sunny Deol) ,Mayuri Kango, Rahul Dev (Replaced Sunil Shetty),Milind Gunaji,Deepak Tijori,Suhas Joshi,Vikram Gokhale,Shama Gesawat,Music by Anand Raaj Anand,Produced and Directed by Ratan Irani. |
| 2 | Starred in the shelved film “Ayudh” (1993). Starring Suniel Shetty, Neelam, Anu Agarwal, Sonali Bendre , Deepti Bhatnagar. Produced by Firoz Nadiadwala. |
| 3 | Starred in the shelved movie Prince & Prince International’s “Chor Sipahee” (1996) Starring Sunil Shetty,Paresh Rawal,Shakti Kapoor,Saeed Jaffrey, Music by Anu Malik, Produced by Mukesh Duggal, Directed by Anees Bazmee. |
| 4 | Was signed to play a triple role in the film Main Khuda Nahin (1993). The film got shelved. |
| 5 | Younger sister named Sumita. |
| 6 | Starred in the shelved film “Captain Arjun” (1995). Starring Sunil Shetty,Mamta Kulkarni.Music by Anand -Milind,Produced by Vijay Ranglani , Ashok Ranglani, Directed by Raj.N. Sippy. |
| 7 | Went for a world tour concert with Akshay Kumar in July 2001. They visited cities in Canada, America and England. |
| 8 | Starred in the shelved movie “Sikander Sadak Ka”(1994). Starring Sunil Shetty, Somy Ali. |
| 9 | Sisters name is Sujata R Hedge and Sunita Tarun Pratap. |
| 10 | In 1992, he was signed for a film titled “Arzoo” produced by Pahlaj Nihalani.. |
| 11 | Starred in the shelved film “Jaahil” (1995). Starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon. Written by Kader Khan. Produced by Farook, Aslam, Santosh. Directed by Sanjay Khanna. |
| 12 | Starred in the shelved film “Prashna” (1996).Starring Sunil Shetty, Sucheta Khanna. Directed by Sanjay Khanna. |
| 13 | Starred in Harry Baweja’s shelved film “Shola” co starring Lalita Pawar’s grandson Manoj Pawar. This was in 1995. |
| 14 | Starred in the shelved film “Do Kadam Aage” ( 1992). Starring Sunil Shetty, Divya Bharti. |
| 15 | Starred in Mukesh Duggal’s shelved film “Kala Pani” (1993). Staring Ajay Devgan, Karishma Kapoor, Sunil Shetty. |
| 16 | Starrer in Shakeel Noorani’s shelved film “Rustom”(1995). Starring Sunil Shetty, Manisha Koirala. |
| 17 | Had a major problem with Sawan Kumar Tak, Sawan had signed Sunil for a film then decided to shelve the film. 2 years later he returned to Sunil and wanted him to do the film. Sunil refused. |
| 18 | Starred in Vinay Sinha’s shelved film in 2002. Starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Apoorva Agnihotri. Directed by Kalpana Lajmi. |
| 19 | Starred in Mahendra Dhariwal’s shelved film “Dharti” directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. The film was based on illegal immigration to Europe. |
| 20 | Starred in Yusuf Khan’s shelved film “Confusion” (2007) Starring Sunil Shetty, Pakistani actor Omar Sharif.The film is about three couples from Mumbai who fly to London and the confusion that ensues”. |
| 21 | Released a children’s nursery rhyme album titled “Jantar Mantar” in 2000. The nursery rhymes were in Hindi and English. Sunil Shetty sang on the album and recited nursery rhymes along with Sudesh Bhonsale, Rahul De Mello etc. The songs were a combination of Hip Hop,Reggae and Rock n Roll. Music was composed by Anand Raaj Anand. The album was released on Times Music. |
| 22 | Starred in the shelved movie “Afra Tafree” (2012) Starring Govinda,Suniel Shetty,Mugdha Godse,Aarya Babbar,Uvika Chaudhary,Vimala Raman,Ashwini Kalsekar,Gulshan Grover,Mukul Dev, Music by Amjad Bagadba,Nadeem Khan,Dabboo Malik, Produced by Krishan Chaudhery,Vipin Jain, Directed by Haadi Abrar. |
| 23 | Starred in the shelved movie Shreya Creations “Chai Garam” (2011) Starring Govinda,Suniel Shetty,Celina Jaitly,Esha Deol,Urvashi Sharma,Jaaved Jaaferi,Rajpal Yadav,Ravi Kishan,Anupam Kher,Music by Anand Raj Anand,Shamir Tandon,Sanjay Pathak. Directed by Aditya Datt. |
| 24 | Starred in the shelved film “Showman” (Earlier titled Con Flick) (2011) Starring Govinda, Suniel Shetty,Kay Kay Menon, Rimi Sen, Vidya Malvade. Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. |
| 25 | Starred in a shelved movie Kamna Arts ”Kashmakash” (Faraar) co-starring Juhi Chawla ,Pooja Batra, Mayuri Kango, Om Puri, Alok Nath,Raju Kher, Karminder Kaur, Neeraj Vohra, Produced by Jimmy Nirula,Maan Singh Deep.The film was directed by Priyadarshan and 90% of it was completed. Akshay Kumar did a cameo appearance in the film. |
| 26 | Starred in a ”Untitled Project” opposite Sridevi. The movie was inspired by Hollywood’s film The Bodyguard and the shooting was scheduled to start in 1994 but it got shelved. |
| 27 | Starred in the completed and unreleased movie, Prince N Prince International’s “Andaz Tera Mastana” (1997) Starring Siddharth Dhawan,Monica Bedi,Sidhant Salaria,Mohan Joshi, Paresh Rawal,Kader Khan,Sunil Shetty in Special Appearance. Music by Anand – Milind, Produced by Mukesh Duggal, Directed by Himanshu Brahmbhatt.. |
| 28 | Starred in the shelved film, M.J.Films’s “Lafange”(1997) Starring Sunil Shetty, Mukul Dev,Music by Jatin -Lalit, Produced by Milan.C. Jhaveri,Directed by N.Chandra. |
| 29 | Starred in the shelved movie Shiva Art International’s “Chori Mera Kaam” aka “Half Pant Full Pant”(1995) Starring Salman Khan,Sunil Shetty,Kajol, Shilpa Shetty,Shakti Kapoor, Mohan Joshi,Kader Khan, Music by Anu Malik, Directed by Aziz Sejawal. Reels :6. |
| 30 | Starred in the shelved movie, Noorani Film Corporation’s “Untitled Movie” Starring Sunil Shetty, Mamta Kulkarni,Ashish Vidyarthi,Mohan Joshi, Ranjeet. Music by Anu Malik, Directed by Ravee.Reels:1. |
| 31 | Starred in shelved film,M.M.Enterprises,”Gehrai” (1994) Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Sunil Shetty, Anupam Kher, Raveena Tandon, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Alok Nath, Raza Murad, Mohnish Bahl, Music by Anand-Milind,Directed by Gautam Verma.Reels:4. |
| 32 | Starred in the shelved movie, Monalisa Films, “Hum Panchi Ek Daal Ke”(1997)Starring Sunil Shetty,Aishwarya Rai,Music by Vishal Bhardwaj, Directed by K. Shashilal Nair. Reels:5. |
| 33 | Sunil Shetty’s first film was “Ek Aur Faulad” directed by David Dhawan produced by Pahlaj Nihalani, but creative differences made the film still unreleased and Shetty’s first release became “Balwaan” opposite Divya Bharti. |
| 34 | Starred in Ravi Dewan’s shelved film opposite Juhi Chawla in 1999. |
| 35 | Wife’s name was Mana Qadri before marriage. Daughter of IM Qadri a architect and Vipula Qadri. Mana has a sister named Isha and a brother named Rahul. |
| 36 | Starred in the shelved film “Juaa” co starring Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala. Directed by Partho Gosh. This was in 1997. |
| 37 | Starred in Nitin Manmohan and RamGopal Varma productions shelved untitled film. Co starring Manisha Koirala. Directed by Tamara Nedungadi. This was in 2001. |
| 38 | Starred in Anees Bazmee’s shelved film Amit Arts ” Radheshyam Sitaram” Starring Sunil Shetty, Aishwarya Rai (Both of them were playing double roles),Raj Babbar,Sheeba Farida Jalal,Reema Lagoo,Sharad Kapoor,Guddi Maharuti,Deepak Qazir,Paresh Rawal,Prem Chopra,Mushtaq Khan, Shyama Deshpande,Dinesh Hingoo, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,Smita Jayakar.Music by Dilip Sen. Sameer Sen,Produced by Shabnam Kapoor, Directed by Anees Bazmee. The film was based on the comedy of error’s. This was in 2001. |
| 39 | Elder sister named Sujata. She is settled on America and recently joined her brother in a business venture. |
| 40 | Father’s name is Veerapa Shetty. |
| 41 | Signed for Vinod Khanna’s role in Eena Meena Deeka but opted out. |
| 42 | Was signed for Akshay Kumar’s role in Elaan. |
| 43 | Starred in the shelved film, Shanketan Films LTD “Karmveer” (1995) Starring Vinod Khanna, Sunil Shetty, Emraan Khan (Replaced Jay Mehta),,Ashwini Bhave, Vaishnavi,Goga Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Music by Bappi Lahiri,Directed by Akash Mehra. Reels:13. |
| 44 | Starred in shelved film “Geherai” (1994) starring Naseeruddin Shah, Sunil Shetty, Anupam Kher, Raveena Tandon, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Alok Nath, Raza Murad, Mohnish Bahl. |
| 45 | His favourite Bollywood actor is Amitabh Bachchan. |
| 46 | His favourite character is Dev which is also very close to his heart he had performed the character in his film Dhadkan (2000). |
| 47 | Formed a popular team with Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal. |
| 48 | He is mostly called “Anna” by his friends & costars. |
| 49 | He owns a company called “Popkorn Entertainment” which produces films. |
| 50 | Is sometimes compared to Dolph Lundgren as his alter-ego from India. |
| 51 | He is a black belt in Full Contact Kick Boxing. |
| 52 | His wife name is Mana (Monisha) and they have two children named Athiya and Aahan. |
| 53 | Is considered a major action star in Indian cinema and his action abilities was the reason for his success. |
| 54 | Often likes to do patriotic roles such as Border (1997), Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003), and Mohra (1994). |
| 55 | He has changed his name to Suniel Shetty. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
| Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav | 2005 | Lalchand Dilachand (Laloo) |
| Hulchul | 2004 | Veer ‘Veeru’ |
| Rakht | 2004 | Mohit (as Suniel Shetty) |
| Ek Se Badhkar Ek | 2004 | Rahul Bhagwat |
| Kyun! Ho Gaya Na… | 2004 | Ishaan (Special Appearance) |
| Aan: Men at Work | 2004 | Sub. Insp. Appa Kadam Naik |
| Main Hoon Na | 2004 | Raghavan Datta |
| Rudraksh | 2004 | Bhuria |
| Lakeer – Forbidden Lines | 2004 | Sanju |
| Ek Hindustani | 2003 | Sunil Shrivastava |
| LOC: Kargil | 2003 | Sepoy Sanjay Kumar, 13 JAK Rifles |
| Khel | 2003 | Dev Mallya (as Suniel Shetty) |
| Hum Panchi Ek Daal Ke | 2003 |
| Qayamat: City Under Threat | 2003 | Akram Sheikh (CBI officer) |
| Khanjar | 2003 | Raja Kumar |
| Baaz: A Bird in Danger | 2003 | Harshvardan |
| Ehsaas | 2003 | TV Series | Sunil |
| Kaante | 2002 | Marc Issak |
| Karz: The Burden of Truth | 2002 | Raja Chauhan |
| Maseeha | 2002 | Krishna “Dushman” |
| Annarth | 2002 | Jimmy / Jai |
| Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani | 2002 | Vijay |
| Awara Paagal Deewana | 2002 | Yeda Anna |
| 12 B | 2001 | Pratap |
| Ehsaas: The Feeling | 2001 | Ravi Naik |
| Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar | 2001 | Daya Shanker Pandey |
| Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat | 2001 | Yash Sabharwal |
| Ittefaq | 2001 | Shiv Kumar ‘Shiva’ |
| Kakkakuyil | 2001 | Kunjunni |
| Officer | 2001 | Sagar Chauhan |
| Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi | 2001 | Sameer |
| Krodh | 2000 | Karan |
| Aaghaaz | 2000 | Govind Narang |
| Dhadkan | 2000 | Dev |
| Jungle | 2000 | Commander Shivraj |
| Refugee | 2000 | Ranger Mohammad Ashraf |
| Hera Pheri | 2000 | Ghanshyam (Shyam) |
| Kaala Samrajya | 1999 | Arjun |
| Bade Dilwala | 1999 | Police Inspector Ram Prasad |
| Hu Tu Tu | 1999 | Aditya |
| Sar Utha Ke Jiyo | 1998 | Special Appearance |
| Humse Badhkar Kaun: The Entertainer | 1998 | Bhola / Suraj |
| Aakrosh: Cyclone of Anger | 1998 | Officer Dev Malhotra |
| Vinashak – Destroyer | 1998 | Inspector Arjun Singh |
| Bhai | 1997 | Kundan |
| Dhaal: The Battle of Law Against Law | 1997 | Suraj |
| Judge Mujrim | 1997 | Sunil / Dhaga |
| Qahar | 1997 | Amar Kapoor (PC Kapoor’s son) |
| Prithvi | 1997 | Prithvi |
| Border | 1997/I | Captain Bhairav Singh (Raja) |
| Ek Tha Raja | 1996 | Inspector Jay Singh / Jay Dogra |
| Vishwasghaat | 1996 | Avinash Indermohan Saxena / Sunil Verma |
| Rakshak | 1996 | ASP Raj Sinha |
| Sapoot | 1996 | Raj |
| Shastra | 1996 | Vijay Khanna |
| Krishna | 1996 | Krishna |
| Raghuveer | 1995 | Raghuveer Verma |
| Surakshaa | 1995 | Raja |
| Takkar | 1995 | Ravi Malhotra |
| Gaddaar | 1995 | Sunil ‘Sunny’ Gujral |
| Gopi Kishan | 1994 | Gopinath ‘Gopi’ / Kishan R. Choudhary |
| Hum Hain Bemisaal | 1994 | Michael |
| Mohra | 1994 | Vishal Agnihotri |
| Anth | 1994 | Vijay Saxena |
| Dilwale | 1994 | Inspector Vikram Singh |
| Pehchaan | 1993 | Kunal Verma |
| Waqt Hamara Hai | 1993 | Sunil Choudhary / Shahenshah |
| Sweetheart | 1993 | Short |
| Balwaan | 1992 | Arjun Singh |
| Reload | 2017 | filming |
| Hera Pheri 3 | 2017 | filming |
| Shooter | post-production | Sada nair |
| Do Chehre | 2015 |
| The Shaukeens | 2014 |
| Desi Kattey | 2014 |
| Koyelaanchal | 2014 | Nisheeth Kumar |
| Jai Ho | 2014/I | Arjun (as Suniel Shetty) |
| Enemmy | 2013 | Eklavya Karmarkar / Bhau |
| Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baaki Hai | 2012 | Amar Joshi – Director |
| Delhi Safari | 2012 | Sultan (voice) |
| Baarood (The Fire) – A Love Story | 2012 |
| Loot | 2011 | Builder |
| Raada Rox | 2011 | Guest Appearance |
| Thank You | 2011/I | Yogi (as Suniel Shetty) |
| No Problem | 2010/I | Marcos |
| Get Educated: Paathshaala | 2010 |
| Tum Milo Toh Sahi | 2010 | Amit Nagpal (as Suniel Shetty) |
| Purab Ki Laila Paschim Ka Chaila: Hello India | 2009 |
| De Dana Dan | 2009 | Ram Mishra |
| Daddy Cool: Join the Fun | 2009 | Steven Lazarus |
| Red Alert: The War Within | 2009 | Narasimha |
| Mukhbiir | 2008 | Rehman |
| Mission Istaanbul: Darr Ke Aagey Jeet Hai! | 2008 | Owais Hussain (as Suniel Shetty) |
| Mr. White Mr. Black | 2008 | Gopi |
| One Two Three | 2008 | Laxminarayan #2 |
| Dus Kahaniyaan | 2007 | Affi Nawab (segment “Rise & Fall”) |
| Cash | 2007 | Angad |
| Shootout at Lokhandwala | 2007 | Kavi Raj Patil |
| Don’t Stop Dreaming | 2007 | Dave |
| Kasamh Se | 2006 | TV Series | Officer (2007) |
| Apna Sapna Money Money | 2006 | Inspector Mane |
| Umrao Jaan | 2006 | Faiz Ali (as Suneil Shetty) |
| Aap Ki Khatir | 2006 | Kunal P. Shah |
| Chup Chup Ke | 2006 | Mangal Singh Chauhan (as Suniel Shetty) |
| Phir Hera Pheri | 2006 | Ghanshyam ‘Shyam’ |
| Darna Zaroori Hai | 2006 | Mr. Pilgaonkar |
| Shaadi Se Pehle | 2006 | Anna |
| Fight Club: Members Only | 2006 | Anna Shetty |
| Home Delivery: Aapko… Ghar Tak | 2005 | Guy with shades and time |
| Deewane Huye Paagal | 2005 | Sanju Malwani |
| Kyon Ki… | 2005 | Karan (special appearance) |
| Amar Joshi Shahid Ho Gaya | 2005 | Director |
| Dus | 2005 | Danish ‘Dan’ |
| Paheli | 2005 | Sunderlal |
| Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets | 2005 | Rocker |
| Tango Charlie | 2005 | Flight Lieutnant Shezad Khan |
| Blackmail | 2005 | ACP Abhay Rathod |
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