Om Puri & Sunny Deol Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Ghayal; the 2010s to Ghayal Once Again. Om Puri acted in every film; Sunny Deol acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Om Puri was the one who pushed Sunny Deol to sign Ghatak (1996). Sunny was hesitant about the script, but Om convinced him it would be a career-defining action film. It was.
• In Ghatak, Om Puri played Sunny Deol's blind father. Their scenes together had no eye contact — Om had to guide Sunny's rage purely through voice and touch. Sunny later said Om's stillness made him act with his whole body.
• Om Puri and Sunny Deol never hung out socially. But on set, Om would quietly correct Sunny's dialogue delivery — especially the pauses. Sunny never minded. He called Om 'the only actor who could tell me I was wrong without making it a thing.'
• The father-son dynamic they created in Ghatak directly inspired the emotional core of Sunny Deol's later hit Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001). The director of Gadar, Anil Sharma, has said he studied Ghatak's father-son scenes to build the bond between Sunny and Amrish Puri.
• Sunny Deol once said about Om Puri: 'He didn't need to shout to be powerful. I shout. He just looked at me, and I knew I had to match that silence.'
• Their last film together, Ghayal Once Again (2016), was the only one where Om Puri played a villain opposite Sunny. Om took the role because Sunny personally called him and said, 'I need someone who can scare me on screen.'