Dev Gill Biography
Dev Gill is a popular actor associated with Bollywood and Tollywood. He is best known for playing negative roles. He shot to fame after playing antagonist in mega blockbuster Telugu film - ‘Magadheera'. He has done a few Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi and Kannada films too. Sura (2010) and Lingaa (2014) are his Tamil releases. He starred aside Mohanlal in the Malayalam action flick – Fraud in 2014.Sagar and Zoom are his Kannada releases. Though he appeared in a few Hindi films, he became extremely popular through south Indian films. He made his Punjabi debut with 2014 film - Saadey CM Saab.
He hails from Pune, Maharashtra. He started his film journey in 2004 with the Hindi biopic film of Shaheed Bhagat Singh – Shaheed-E-Azam, where he played the pivot role of Raj Guru. Quite co-incidence in 2002 four biopics of Bhagat Singh were made on Hindi screen namely Ramanand Sagar’s Bhagat Singh, 23rd March 1931: Shaheed and The Legend of Bhagat Singh and the fourth one beingShaheed-E-Azam with Sonu Sood playing the lead role. While Ramanand Sagar’s Bhagat Singh was premiered on Doordarshan,Shaheed-E-Azam got a delayed release in 2004, as the movie faced a ban from Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Dev Gill later portrayed numerous roles on Bollywood and Telugu screen. He is best known for playing antagonist in the big budget Telugu film, ‘Magadheera' – a huge blockbuster. He acted in Bollywood flicks – Mr. Prime Minister, Bold, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag etc.Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is his most memorable role in Bollywood films, where he played antagonist’s role, a Pakistani Muslim. Rakesh Omprakash gave him the role of Abdul Khaliq after watching his performance in Magadheera. He also worked with Rajinikanth in Tamil flick – Lingaa.
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Filmography:
Year | Film | Cast | Role | Language |
2004 | Shaheed-E-Azam | Sonu Sood, Raj Zutshi, Dev Gill, Ron Sladczyk | Rajguru | Hindi |
2005 | Mr Prime Minister | Dev Anand, Tara Sharma, Shahbaz Khan, Prem Chopra, A.K. Hangal, Boman Irani, Milind Gunaji, Dev Gill | Hindi | |
2006 | Bold | Raj | Hindi | |
2008 | Krishnarjuna | Vishnu Vardhan Babu, Mamta Mohandas, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nassar, Mohan Babu, Manorama, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Venu Madhav, M. S. Narayana | Telugu | |
2009 | Magadheera | Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Aggarwal, Sunil, Srihari, Dev Gill, Sarath Babu, Rao Ramesh, Sameer | Raghu Veer / Ranadev Billa | Telugu |
2010 | Sura | Vijay, Tamannaah, Vadivelu, Riyaz Khan, Dev Gill, Ilavarasu, Madhan Bob, Yuvarani, Sriman | Samudra Raja | Tamil |
Ragada | Nagarjuna Akkineni, Anushka Shetty, Priyamani, Pradeep Rawat, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Dev Gill, Sushant Singh, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam | G. K. | Telugu | |
2011 | Prema Kavali | Aadi, Isha Chawla, Dev Gill, Nassar, Nagababu, Jayasudha, Sindhu Tolani, Bramhanandam, Ali | Tagore | Telugu |
2012 | Poola Rangadu | Sunil, Isha Chawla, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Dev Gill, Pradeep Rawat, Satyam Rajesh, Ali | Konda Reddy | Telugu |
Rachcha | Ram Charan Teja, Tamannaah Bhatia, Ajmal Ameer, Ali, Nassar, Parthiepan, Mukesh Rishi, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Dev Gill, Geetha, Thagubothu Ramesh, Brahmanandam, M. S. Narayana |
Telugu | ||
Sagar | Prajwal Devaraj, Radhika Pandit, Sanjjanaa, Haripriya, Dev Gill, Vinaya Prasad, Avinash, Sharath Lohitashwa | Sonu | Kannada | |
2013 | Naayak | Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Aggarwal, Amala Paul, Brahmanandam, Pradeep Rawat, Ashish Vidyarthi, Dev Gill |
Badvel | Telugu |
Adda | Sushanth, Shanvi, Raghu Babu, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Thagubothu Ramesh, Dhanraj, Tanikella Bharani, Venu Madhav, Nagineedu, Shweta Bhardwaj, Dev Gill |
Telugu | ||
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag | Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Meesha Shafi, Divya Dutta, Pawan Malhotra, K.K.Raina, Yograj Singh, Prakash Raj, Rebecca Breeds, Dev Gill, Nawab Shah, Art Malik, Dalip Tahil |
Abdul Khaliq (athlete) | Hindi |
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Updated: June 21, 2016