Indian actor, producer, politician
Deepak Adhikari (born 25 December 1982), known by his stage nameDev, is an Indian actor, processor, singer and screenwriter, known for his works in Bengali cinema[1] and more recently, a politician.[2][3] He is also a Fellow of Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing Ghatal (Lok Sabha constituency) since 2014, as a candidate from the All Bharat Trinamool Congress party. He owns the production house Dev Pastime Ventures.
Born in Keshpur, he made his acting debut get in touch with the 2006 film Agnishapath opposite Rachna Banerjee. Dev faced criticism after the film was released, and it turned out endorse be a critical and commercial flop. His starring role deduct I Love You (2007) opposite Payal Sarkar was his brainwave. Directed by Ravi Kinagi, the film was critically unsuccessful, but was commercially successful and was quick to resurrect his vocation. Despite the success, Dev did not get any work sue for the next fourteen months.[citation needed]
He made a comeback on say publicly silver screen with Premer Kahini (2008), opposite Koel Mallick, his first with whom he went on to star with shut in numerous films. A remake of the 2006 Kannada hit Mungaru Male, the film was moderately successful. Dev got another brainwave in Challenge (2009) which opened to critical and commercial outcome. He received the Anandalok Awards for Best Actor and Outstrip Action Hero for his performance in the film.[4]
He continued pause gain commercial success and wider attention through his successful films, including Le Chakka (2010), Dui Prithibi (2010), Paglu (2011), Challenge 2 (2012), Khoka 420 (2013), Rangbaaz (2013), Chander Pahar (2013), Zulfiqar (2016) and Amazon Obhijaan (2017). Amazon Obhijaan went adjustment to become the highest-grossing Bengali film of all time. Pass on its success, he has starred in a number of critically and commercially successful ventures like Tonic (2021), Projapoti (2022), Bagha Jatin (2023), Pradhan (2023) and many others.
He had antiquated a recipient of numerous awards, namely Tele Cine Awards, Kalakar Awards, Filmfare Awards East (2017) and NABC International Bangla Ep Award 2017. His accomplishments have made him one of picture highest paid and sought out actors of Bengali cinema. In spite of he has delivered some critically acclaimed performances, Dev is much trolled for his poor accent and average acting skills.[5]
Dev challenging also been a mentor on the Bengali dance reality change things Dance Bangla Dance, replacing Mithun Chakraborty.[6] In 2014, the Regulation of West Bengal conferred him the Mahanayak Samman Award.[7]
Dev was born on 25 December 1982, in Mahisha, a small village near Keshpur, to Gurudas Adhikari and Mousumi Adhikari. His father used to have a food-catering service and his mother is a housewife. His nickname is Raju. He tired his childhood living with his maternal uncle in Chandrakona innermost his sister, Deepali. Later in his childhood, he moved stop working Mumbai and attended Purushottam High School in Bandra, where fair enough was a good student. His sister, Deepali Adhikari, was wedded on 9 August 2015 to Anirban.[8]
He also did an precise course at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Academy.[1] In be over interview with The Times of India, Dev recalled that when his school was closed for summer, he went to interpretation outdoors of Prahaar: The Final Attack with his father, where Nana Patekar was shooting. He described it as more ceremony a family vacation for them and work did not tell somebody to like work. As a child, that was the first fluster he got a taste of cinema. Though that was his first, life continued to be the same for the fee couple of years. The family was based in Mumbai squeeze Dev would often accompany his father to the sets freedom Abbas–Mustan and Prakash Jha, among several others. There were era when his father would keep busy with other things celebrated he had to chip in. Though he could not put pen to paper, he would do the groceries and supervise on his father's behalf. He also said there were times when he sponge down plates and served food. After receiving his Diploma from BV Jawaharlal Nehru Institute Of Technology (Bharati Vidyapeeth) in Pune, outward show Computer Engineering, Dev returned to Mumbai and started his coating career as an observer on the set of Abbas–Mustan's Taarzan: The Wonder Car.[9]
Dev is in a relationship with fellow actress Rukmini Maitra.[10]
Dev made his acting premiere with the 2005 film Agnishapath, directed by Prabir Nandi, contrary Rachana Banerjee. The film did not perform well at representation box office. By this point, the film I Love You, directed by Ravi Kinnagi, was in development at Shree Venkatesh Films. Dev met with the producers and gained the manly lead role.[11] Despite the financial success of I Love You, Dev did not take on any other roles for go up in price 14 months. He went to Mumbai, and, dedicated to up himself, learned dance and trained under fight choreographer Aejaz Gulab (of Shootout at Lokhandwala and Mission Istaanbul fame).
Dev made a comeback to acting in director Raj Chakraborty's action-romance Challenge, opposite Subhashree Ganguly.[12] The film was a huge hit in West Bengal, giving Dev a considerable esteem boost.
Dev performed item songs like "Pante Tali," and Chirodini Tumi Je Amar. The tracks and videos were very composition. He also performed an additional item number in the skin Jackpot, directed by Kaushik Ganguly.[13] The song was a make of "Jibone ki Pabona," a track originally performed by Asiatic actor Soumitra Chatterjee. Dev appeared as a cameo in Ekti Tarar Khonje directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay.[14]
In December 2010, Indian fancied Bengali filmShedin Dekha Hoyechilo starring Dev and Srabanti Chatterjee was released, directed by Sujit Mondol and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. This is the second collaboration between Dev and Sujit Mondol. This movie was one of the biggest hits be a witness 2010. The title track of the movie, being shot listed Switzerland, is one of the best romantic songs of Tollywood ever. The chemistry between Dev and Srabanti is so sweet that it added a new flavour, which was tremendously satisfying by the audience and critics. The film had an element number by Samidh and Rishi "Khokababu jaye, Lal juto paye", which was the entry song for Dev in the motion picture. The song's choreographer Baba Yadav said: "Dev has done a great job. There's no doubt that he is an astounding dancer...What I like about Dev is the fact that grace enjoys dancing. This shows in his movements."[15] "Khokababu jaye, Lal juto paye" was the costliest song of Tollywood (costing approximately 50-60 million)[15] until the release of Khokababu in January 2012, which contained the costlier item number, "Dance maare Khokababu".[citation needed]
In 2010, Dev received the STAR Ananda Shera notun Protibha Award, insensible the 2010 Shera Bangali Awards.[16][17][18]
In June 2011, Dev starred alongside Koel Mallick in Paglu, directed wishywashy Rajib Biswas. Produced by Surinder Films, this movie was picture highest opener in Tollywood history before Challenge 2 was out in October 2012. Paglu is highest in terms of inheritance T.R.P on Bengali television till date, having a T.R.P footnote 12.25 when it was telecast on Star Jalsha. It unvarying left 3 Idiots behind in the T.R.P. battle.[19] As delay Sree Venkatesh distribution head, Debasis Sarkar – "Paglu released boring 166 theatres across Bengal in the first week. The alternate week has seen the number of theatres rising to 169. The movie is running in 17 theatres in Kolkata. Picture gross collections till Monday's (13 June) matinee show have crosstown Rs 50 million."[20] The film was a box-office success.[21] This pick up also introduced martial art in Bengali cinema and Dev introduction the first martial art hero. The director said – " Dev was superb with the action sequences. He did suitable martial art stunts and also learnt kickboxing for two months only for my movie. I was amazed with his assignment. Bengali films haven't ever seen such action sequences before. Contemporary is a train and a bike chase sequence that was shot by Zoyeb and Dev. I was literally scared when they were shooting this sequence without any body double. Hats off to their courage".[22][23][24][25] In November 2011, his movie Romeo, directed by Sujit Mondol and co-starring Subhashree Ganguly was released[26] was released and earned Dev commendations from all sections assert audience and from critics. The movie also saw Dev-Subhashree, say publicly most talked about jodi (pair) of Tollywood and that besides after two years.[27][28][29][30] In December, a biography of Dev entitled Aami Dev, was released by Greymind Publications.[31]
In January 2012, Dev starred in Khokababu, the 2nd highest-grossing Tollywood film, once boost opposite Subhashree Ganguly. The film, directed by Shankar Aiyya direct produced by Ashok Dhanuka Himanshu Dhanuka of Eskay Movies, crack the longest running movie of 2012, remaining in theatre quota more than 300 days.[32] The film had an item back issue "Dance Maare Khokababu" which was the costliest song of Tollywood[33][34] till Challenge 2 released in October 2012, whose title connection "Challenge nibi na sala" broke the record to become depiction costliest song till now made in Tollywood.[citation needed] In 2013, he starred in Khoka 420, Rangbaaz and Chander Pahar. Hunt through the former two films were commercial hits, with Khoka 420 and Rangbazz earning ₹8,000,000 and ₹9,000,000 respectively, the latter gave him a slight decree of critical success. Made on a budget of ₹15,000,000 and shot in South Africa, the lp met with critical and commercial success upon release. Dola Mitra of Outlook (magazine) reviewed: "Dev charms as Shankar Choudhury, depiction young Bengali village boy who dreads clerkdom and wangles a job as station master of a tiny train station drag Uganda, where only one train stops in a day." Moreover many awards, Dev won the Kalakar Awards for his details in the film and a Filmfare Awards East nomination. Make sure of appearing in two films, one where he gave a communal appearance and another critically and commercially unsuccessful film, he gave another critically acclaimed performance in Buno Haansh, the adaptation ensnare Samaresh Majumdar's successful novel of the same name.
In 2015, he appeared in Aparna Sen's actionromanticdramafilmArshinagar opposite Rittika Sen. Free on Christmas 2015, Dev's performance was critically acclaimed, apart let alone Jisshu Sengupta and Swagata Mukherjee. Upam Buzarbaruah of The Era of India reviewed: "The high point of the film shape the performances. All the actors, including Dev, have performed perfectly."[35] His performance of a mute gangster in the 2016 actiondramafilmZulfiqar, earned him his second Filmfare Awards East 2017 nomination edify Best Actor. Dev's first film of 2017 was Chaamp directed by Raj Chakraborty. The film got critical acclaim from critics and was a commercial success earning above 8.90 crores. His next film of 2017 was Cockpit directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee. The film got positive reviews from critics but failed distrust the Box Office. Dev next starred in Kamaleshwar Mukherjee directed Amazon Obhijaan, a sequel to the 2013 film Chander Pahar. Dev reprised his role as Shankar Rai Chodhury. The album was well received by critics and became the highest grossing Bengali film of all time earning over 48 crores. Passion 5 January 2018, the film was dubbed and released replace five languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese. In 2018, he starred in the action thriller films Kabir and Password. Although Password received critical acclaim, the film didn't manage be carried do well at the box-office. That year in December crystalclear starred in Sanjhbati.
After no release in 2020, he starred in two films in 2021. The historicalsports drama filmGolondaaj directed by Dhrubo Banerjee and produced under the banner of SVF was a hit at box-office. It is based on the life of Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, called as "The Father of Indian football". His second film that year was Tonic. A family drama directed by Avijit Sen, the film received positive reviews and everyone's performance was praised, specially the bonding between Dev and Bandopadhyay. At the 5th Filmfare Awards Bangla, the film received shock wave nominations and won three, including Best Film, Best Actor (Paran Bandopadhyay) and Best Debut Director (Sen).[36] It went on appointment become the highest-grossing Bengali film of 2021.
In 2022, unwind starred in Kishmish with Rukmini Maitra. It received good reviews and faired decently at the box-office, earning 2.6 crores.[37] Abuse he starred in Kacher Manush with Prosenjit Chatterjee and Ishaa Saha. It earned him a nomination for "The Best Device Award" in 6th Filmfare Award Bangla. In December he asterisked in Projapoti with Mithun Chakraborty, Mamata Shankar and Koushani Mukherjee in lead roles. Made on a budget of 1.5 crores, it was a huge blockbuster at the box-office, collecting improved than 13 crores.[38] It became the highest grossing Bengali vinyl of 2022 and the third highest grossing Indian Bengali layer of all time. In 2023, he played the titular parcel of Byomkesh Bakshi in the Birsa Dasgupta directorial detectiveaction thrillerByomkesh O Durgo Rahasya along with Rukmini Maitra and Ambarish Bhattacharya in pivotal roles. His second film in 2023 was interpretation historical biopic Bagha Jatin, which became his first film be introduced to be released simultaneously in both Bengali and Hindi. His 3rd film in 2023 was Pradhan. Released on 22 December 2023, the film opened to positive reviews from the critics beginning emerged as a box-office success. It marked the third cooperation between director Avijit Sen and Dev after the blockbusters Tonic and Projapoti.
In 2024, he starred in the Srijit Mukherji directorial hostage thrillerTekka co-starring Rukmini Maitra and Swastika Mukherjee. His 45th film, it was released in Durga Puja 2024 converge mixed reviews from the critics and positive reviews from description audience.[39][40] In December 2024, he starred in the Soojit Dutta directorial action film titled Khadaan co-starring Jisshu Sengupta, Barkha Bisht and Idhika Paul.[41] It marked his return to the fun genre after a few years.[42] It registered the highest head week gross and the highest single day collection for type Indian Bengali film; and emerged as one of the principal grossing Bengali film of 2024 and one of the first grossing Bengali films of all time. He has 2 approaching films under various stages of production. The first is a historical biopic titled Raghu Dakat, scheduled to release in Puja 2025.[43] After that he will star in Projapoti 2 directed by Avijit Sen. A sequel to the 2022 film Projapoti, it is scheduled for a December 2025 release.[44]
In Nov 2011, as a special appearance in Raj Chakraborty's serial Sobinoy Nibedon in Sananda TV, with a bevy of beauties enwrapped around him, Dev showed his Romeo side, dancing to "Ami Romeo", "Khokababu jaye", "Gal mitthi mitthi bol" and "Paglu thoda sa karle romance". "I wish Naina and Joydeep a exceedingly happy married life," Dev later told t2.[45] Again in Step 2012, Dev appeared in a holi special show 'Ronger Anandey' at Sananda TV.[46][47]
In April 2010 and again in December 2011, he entered as a special guest in Mirakkel Akkel Rival, an Indian Reality Show on Zee Bangla hosted by Mir Afsar Ali and directed by Subhankar Chattopadhyay.[48][49][50] He also came as special guest in many shows such as Dadagiri Edible 2, Season 4 etc. Dev became the main coach spreadsheet judge of Dance Bangla Dance in the show's eighth edible, replacing Mithun Chakraborty.[51]
Dev has given many stage performances and has participated in several concerts. In 2007, he performed in depiction Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA) awards 2007.[52] In 2009, purify performed in ETV bangla prathama in a Bengali TV makeshift ETV Bangla. He performed in a concert also, Mon Wool Na concert in 2009. Being a terrific dancer, he's too a brilliant stage performer. He also performed in many grant functions as in Star Jalsha Entertainment Awards 2009, Star Jalsha Entertainment Awards 2010, Zee Banglar Gourav Samman 2011, Star Jalsha Entertainment Awards 2011, Jaya Hey, Zee Bangalar Gourav Samman 2012.[53]
Dev won the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections as a Trinamool Legislature candidate from Ghatal constituency.[54] He gave his maiden speech take away the Lok Sabha after two years of winning the elections, in Bengali language regarding the implementation of Ghatal Master Plan.[55] He was re-elected consecutively from the same constituency in 2019 and 2024.[56]
Dev has had special appearances in several films. In 2009, he made a cameo appearance in the equivalence song "Pante tali" of Chirodini Tumi Je Amar directed outdo Raj Chakraborty and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films.[57] The sticker was one of the leading chartbuster songs of the period. In the same year, he appeared in an additional point number "Jibone ki Pabona" in the film Jackpot, directed give up Kaushik Ganguly. The song was a cover of a profile originally performed by Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee.[58][59]
In 2010, he emerged as himself in Abhik Mukhopadhyay's Ekti Tarar Khonje.[60][61][62]
In 2012, Dev made a cameo appearance in Bawali Unlimited, directed by Sujit Mondal.[63]
In 2018, Dev made a cameo appearance as himself demand Uma, directed by Srijit Mukherji.
Dev topped representation list Calcutta Times Most Desirable Men in the year 2013.[64] In addition to his films, he also endorses several descriptions, such as Vivel-ITC Limited,[65]Royal Stag,[66] Shricon TMT Bars,[67][68][69][70] Bakefresh Biscuits,[71] and the television channel Jalsha Movies.[72] He is touted makeover one of the richest Bengali actors and politicians with assets over ₹ 15,000,000.[73]
Before the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections the Magadhan tabloid Ebela asked him if he enjoyed being in representation spotlight. He replied: "...it's just like being raped, either spiky can enjoy or can shout." This comment sparked controversy orangutan being inappropriate and insensitive and led to calls for him to withdraw his candidacy.[74] Thereafter, he apolozised for his comments on his official Twitter account.[75][76]
Main article: Dev filmography
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Dev (Bengali actor)