Sonu Sood

Sonu Sood is an Indian actor, film producer, model, humanitarian, and philanthropist who works predominantly in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. He is known for his performances as the negative lead in most of his films. In 1999, Sood began his career through his first two Tamil language films, Kallazhagar and Nenjinile . He then appeared as an antagonist in the Telugu film Hands Up! in 2000. In 2001, he appeared in Majunu .

He then began starring in Hindi films, with Shaheed-E-Azam , as Bhagat Singh in 2002. Sood earned recognition as Abhishek Bachchan 's brother in Mani Ratnam 's Yuva in 2004 and in Aashiq Banaya Aapne in 2005. In Tollywood , with the release of Super in 2005, he received greater recognition for his work. In this film, his co-star was Nagarjuna as a high-tech thief. His next film was Athadu . In 2006, he again portrayed the antagonist in Ashok .

It was an average grosser, but by now he had become popular in Telugu films. In 2009, he played the role of Pasupathy in Arundhati . Following the Tollywood release of Arundhati , he played the role of Rajkumar Sujamal in the Indian epic film Jodha Akbar , directed by Ashutosh Gowariker . In 2009, he played the role of gangster Bada in Anjaneyulu opposite Ravi Teja . In the latter half of 2009, he acted in another Telugu film Ek Niranjan , in which he again played the antagonist.