ajay devgan biography

Name	Ajay Devgan
Birth Name	Vishal Veeru Devgan
Date of Birth	April 2, 1967
Birth Place	Delhi, India
Star Sign	Aries
Ajay Devgan Height	5 ‘ 8
Eye colour	Black
Father	Veeru Devgan, director and stunt man
Mother	Veena Devgan
Spouse	Kajol (1999 – Present)
Daughter	Nysa Mukherjee- Devgan, born April 20, 2003.
Brother	Anil Devgan, director
Schoool Days	Silver Beach High School in Juhu
College Days	Mithibai College
First movie	Phool Aur Kaante
Profession	Actor, Model
Address ________	Sea Cliff, 1st Floor, Gandhigram Road, Juhu

Hot facts in Biography

# Ajay Devgan dated Kajol for five years before marrying.

# The actor married actress Kajol on February 24, 1999.# The couple have a daughter, Nysa born on April 20, 2003.

# His father Veeru Devgan,was a stunt choreographer in bollywood.

# His brother, Anil Devgan, is a Bollywood film director.

# He is originally from Punjab.

# He paired with his wife Kajol appeared on the TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. They won 1 crore rupees and donated the same to a cancer hospital in Chennai. [2005]

# He won “National Award” for his performance twice.

# His made his film debut with “Phool Aur Kaante”and he also won “Filmfare Best Debut Award” for his performance.

# During the 2004 elections, Ajay Devgan had briefly joined BJP.

# The actor  is known for his creative pranks in the sets.

# “U, Me Aur Hum” is his directorial debut. He is also acting in the film.

Ajay Devgan best movie list

• Phool Aur Kante ( Ajay Devgan , Madhoo , Aruna Irani , Jagdeep and Amrish Puri )
• Ishq ( Aamir Khan , Ajay Devgan , Kajol and Juhi Chawla )
• Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam ( Salman Khan , Aishwarya Rai , Ajay Devgan )
• Hindustan Ki Kasam ( Amitabh Bachchan , Ajay Devgan , Manisha Koirala , Sushmita Sen )
• Raju Chacha ( Ajay Devgan , Kajol , Rishi Kapoor )
• Yeh Raaste Hai Pyar Ke ( Ajay Devgan , Preity Zinta , Madhuri Dixit )
• Hum Kisise Kum Nahin ( Amitabh Bachchan , Sanjay Dutt , Ajay Devgan , Aishwarya Rai )
• Company ( Ajay Devgan , Vivek Oberoi , Mohanlal )
• The Legend of Bhagat Singh ( Ajay Devgan , Sushant Singh , Akhilendra Mishra )
• Bhoot ( Ajay Devgan , Urmila Matondkar )
• LoC Kargil ( Abhishek Bachchan , Ajay Devgan , Akshay Khanna , Sanjay Dutt , Saif Ali Khan , Sunil Shetty , Manoj Bajpai , Sanjay Kapoor )
• Khakee ( Amitabh Bachchan , Ajay Devgan , Akshay Kumar , Aishwarya Rai )
• Yuva ( Ajay Devgan , Abhishek Bachchan , Vivek Oberoi , Rani Mukherjee , Esha Deol , Kareena Kapoor )
• Blackmail ( Ajay Devgan , Sunil Shetty , Priyanka Chopra , Dia Mirza )
• Kaal ( John Abraham , Esha Deol , Vivek Oberoi , Lara Dutta , Ajay Devgan )
• Shikhar ( Ajay Devgan , Bipasha Basu , Shahid kapoor , Amrita Rao )
• Golmaal ( Ajay Devgan , Arshad Warsi , Tusshar Kapoor , Sharman Joshi )
• Cash ( Ajay Devgan , Ritesh Deshmukh , Esha Deol , Zayed Khan , Sunil Shetty , Diya Mirza , Shamita Shetty )
• Golmaal Returns, [Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi]
• All the Best: Fun Begins [Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan]

Shrouded in an air of melancholy and known for his reticence, Ajay Devgan stands out in the hustle-bustle of tinsel town. He is an award winning actor turned director and producer.

Life as Vishal

Ajay Devgan was born as Vishal Veeru Devgan in New Delhi on 2 April 1969. He is a Punjabi and the son of Veeru Devgan, a stunt director and Veena Devgan who is known to have produced a film. His uncle is film director Anil Devgan.

He was a student of Silver Beach High School and Mithibai College.

A couple of years after plunging into Bollywood, he married actress Kajol in 1999 and they had a daughter Nysa in 2003.

His Filmi Kahani

1991-1995 Devgan made his debut in Phool Aur Kante opposite Madhoo, winning the Filmfare Best Debut Award. Most of his films, at the start of his career were packed with a generous amount of dishum-dishum, like Jigar and Vijaypath. Mahesh Bhatt’s Naajayaz with Juhi Chawla won him his first nomination for the Filmfare Best Actor Award.

1996-2000 In 1997, he moved away from action with the romcom hit Ishq, which also starred Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, and Kajol. In 1998, he appeared in the Bollywood remake of French Kiss - Pyaar Tho Hona Hi Tha with Kajol. This fell in line among some of the most popular films that year. The same year saw the release of Mahesh Bhatt’s Zakhm, which looked at communal issues in India. The film won several awards including the National Film Award for Devgan’s performance.

His most talked about film in 1999 was Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam in which he played Vanraj, a man who tries to help his wife get back together with her lover. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award. He produced and acted in Raju Chacha in 2000, along with Kajol. However the film made an average hit at the box office.

2001-2005 His role as Bulwa in the major hit Lajja won him a nomination for Filmfare Best Supporting Actor. Ram Gopal Verma’s Company in 2002 based on the underworld had Devgan playing Malik, a gangleader. His performance was praised. He walked away with the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance and his second National Film Award for his portrayal of the freedon fighter, Bhagat Singh, in Rajkumar Santoshi’s The Legend of Bhagat Singh.

In 2003, the audience feasted on films like Ram Gopal Verma’s horror flick Bhoot, Prakash Jha’s Gangaajal, and J.P.Dutta’s LOC Kargil. This was followed by some diverse but remarkable performances in Mani Ratnam’s Yuva, in which he played a student leader and Rituparno Ghosh’s Raincoat, which was non-mainstream cinema.

2006-2009 Both his releases in 2006 became major hits. Golmaal, a-laugh-a-minute comedy and Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkaara, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Year 2008 saw the release of U, Me Aur Hum, his directorial debut, in which he acted. He also produced and helped with the script of the film. The film received an average response and was partly inspired by 50 First Dates. The sequel Golmaal Returns, with Devgan playing Gopal, was a high-grosser.

He had two releases in 2009 – All the Best, a comedy and London Dreams with Salman Khan and Asin. Both did a fair job.

Upcoming

Next on his hit list is Rajneeti (2010), a political thriller and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010), in which he plays Haji Mastan. He will be seen with Konkona Sen Sharma for the first time in Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge. The third installment of Golmaal is also expected to hit theaters in 2010.