Salman Khan & Deepak Dobriyal Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Salman Khan acted in every film; Deepak Dobriyal acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Deepak Dobriyal was cast in Dabangg 2 because Salman Khan personally remembered his performance in Omkara and told the director, 'Get that guy.'
• In Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Salman deliberately slowed down his comic timing to match Deepak's deadpan delivery. The scene where Deepak's character keeps getting slapped became the film's most-shared clip on WhatsApp in 2015.
• Deepak Dobriyal is the only supporting actor Salman has ever personally called to thank after a film's release. Salman called him after Dabangg 2 and said, 'Tune meri film bacha li.'
• Their pairing in Zero directly inspired the casting of a similar 'hero + quirky sidekick' duo in the 2022 film Mili — the director admitted he wanted the same energy Salman and Deepak had in the space station sequence.
• In Zero, Deepak improvised the line 'Bhai, aap zero ho' during a take. Salman laughed so hard the director kept it in the final cut — it became the film's most-quoted dialogue.