Sunny days forever

Sunny Deol. When the star burst upon the scene in 1983 with Betaab, he was heralded as the unconventional romantic hero.

- JITESH PILLAAI

Much like his dad Dharmendra, he possessed dashing good looks, coupled with a muscular body and soulful eyes. He looked like the perfect leading man and some even started calling him the successor to superstar Amitabh Bachchan. Like Amitabh, Sunny successfully carried forward the angry-young-man formula. It all started out with Arjun (1985). He played an angst-filled unemployed Maharashtrian youth in this Rahul Rawail directorial, which was written by Javed Akhtar. Barring his accent - he didn't sound like a Marathi manoos at all - Sunny looked the part. You believed in him and in his violent ways of changing the system. His true claim to fame began with