Sunny Deol & Harry Baweja Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Imtihaan; the 2000s to Karz: The Burden of Truth. Sunny Deol acted in every film; Harry Baweja directed all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Sunny Deol and Harry Baweja first teamed up for Imtihaan (1995) because Baweja needed a star who could convincingly play a double role — one a righteous cop, the other a conman. Sunny was the only actor Baweja felt could sell both extremes without looking silly.
• On the set of Karz: The Burden of Truth (2002), Baweja realized Sunny Deol’s biggest strength was his stillness. So he wrote long, silent close-ups for Sunny — no dialogue, just his eyes doing the work. That film’s most intense scene has Sunny saying nothing for nearly two minutes.
• Harry Baweja once said in an interview that Sunny Deol never once asked to see the script before signing any of their three films. Sunny just said, 'Tum banao, main karunga' (You make it, I’ll do it). That trust never broke, even when the films flopped.
• Teesri Aankh: The Hidden Camera (2006) was the first Hindi film to use hidden-camera footage as a plot device — a gimmick Baweja and Deol cooked up together after watching a documentary about sting operations. It directly inspired a wave of low-budget 'found footage' thrillers in Bollywood over the next five years.
• Harry Baweja on Sunny Deol: 'He never once complained about the budgets or the release dates. Even when Teesri Aankh got an 'A' certificate and tanked, he called me and said, 'Next one, Harry. Don't stop.'