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Esha Deol is a Actor Indian born on 2 november 1981 at Mumbai (Inde)

Esha Deol

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Birth name Esha Dharmendra Deol
Nationality Inde
Birth 2 november 1981 (42 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards

Esha Deol (born 2 November 1981) is an Indian film actress and older daughter of film actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini. She made her acting debut in Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (2002). Deol was praised by film critics and her performance in the movie earned her numerous awards and nominations including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

Deol earned critical acclaim for her performances and has mainly found success in multi-starrer movies. Deol's breakthrough role was in the critically acclaimed Tamil film Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004) and its Hindi remake Yuva (2004).

Deol's first commercial success was the multi-starrer action film Dhoom (2004) featuring her in a supporting role. It was followed by numerous multi-starrer movies including Dus (2005) and No Entry (2005) that were commercial successes at the box office and earned Deol critical acclaim. The majority of Deol's films earned critical acclaim for her performances in films including Ankahee (2006), Darling (2007) until she took a hiatus from acting. Deol made her comeback to acting with a lead role in Tell Me O Kkhuda (2011).

Biography

Esha Deol was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 2 November 1981. She was given the full name of Esha Dharmendra Deol. The name 'Esha' comes from the Upanishads and is derived from the Sanskrit language meaning "the divine beloved". She is the elder daughter of Bollywood actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini. She has a younger sister named Ahana. She is the step sister of actors Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol and first cousin of actor Abhay Deol. She is half Punjabi and half Tamil and speaks Tamil with her mother and sister.

During her school days, she was passionate about football and played as a midfielder. She was the captain of her school football team, represented her college in handball at the state level and was also selected for the Indian national woman's football team.

Esha Deol got engaged to her boyfriend Bharat Takhtani, a businessman on 12 February 2012 and married on 29 June 2012.

Usually with

Ajay Devgn
Ajay Devgn
(7 films)
Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam
(2 films)
Fardeen Khan
Fardeen Khan
(6 films)
Anu Malik
Anu Malik
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Esha Deol (27 films)

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Actress

Raaz 3
Raaz 3 (2012)
, 2h5
Directed by Vikram Bhatt
Origin Inde
Genres Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Bipasha Basu, Emraan Hashmi, Jacqueline Fernandez, Esha Gupta, Esha Deol, Mohan Kapoor
Roles Herself
Rating41% 2.057792.057792.057792.057792.05779
The story revolves around Shanaya (Bipasha Basu), an actress at the height of her success. She gets offered the best roles and wins all the awards she is nominated for. In addition, she also has a passionate affair with a handsome director named Aditya (Emraan Hashmi). This all ends when a younger actress, Sanjana (Esha Gupta) makes her film debut. In place of Shanaya, Sanjana comes into spotlight and begins to snatch away her awards. Suddenly, Shanaya seems forgotten and everybody only wants to work with Sanjana. Soon enough, Shanaya sees her career fading away and her envy slowly becomes craziness. She begins to turn to black magic and makes it her goal in life to destroy Sanjana's career and make her the pain of loss.
Tell Me O Kkhuda
Directed by Hema Malini
Actors Esha Deol, Arjan Bajwa, Sudhanshu Pandey, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Dharmendra
Roles Tanya R. Kapoor
Rating26% 1.302751.302751.302751.302751.30275
The film is about of a girl named Tanya (Esha Deol) who learns that she is adopted and wants to know her biological parents. She travels across the globe to find them. The first man she visits is a Hindu king (played by Vinod Khanna) named Abhay Pratap, ruling a patriarchal district in Rajasthan, where female infanticide is common. However, it's revealed that another girl, not Tanya, is the true princess since her nanny had hidden the truth from everyone. Even the king hadn't known that his wife had given birth before dying in a fire.
One Two Three, 2h17
Directed by Ashwni Dhir
Genres Comedy
Actors Tusshar Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Upen Patel, Sameera Reddy, Tanisha
Roles Jiya
Rating54% 2.7015552.7015552.7015552.7015552.701555
Laxmi Narayan 1 (Tushar Kapoor) lives a poor lifestyle in Mumbai with his widowed mother Kanta, who wants him to be a successful gangster and would like him to kill a few people, make enough money, then marry Chota Khujli's daughter, Meena Khujli. To fulfill his mother's wish, Laxminarayan #1 accepts a contract to kill D'Mello Yadav (Mukesh Tiwari), a Pondi-based gangster, who has stolen a diamond.
Sunday
Sunday (2008)
, 2h10
Directed by Rohit Shetty
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Ajay Devgn, Ayesha Takia, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Mukesh Tiwari, Anjana Sukhani
Roles special appearance in an item song
Rating55% 2.750072.750072.750072.750072.75007
The story takes place in Delhi. The film begins when a girl is murdered by an unseen killer. It is learnt that the killer was her fiancé & had acquired evidence about her infidelity. Then, the story shifts to life of Sehar (Ayesha Takia), a voiceover artist. Sehar, who lives alone in a flat, has a friend named Ritu (Anjana Sukhani), who is a fashion designer. Sehar has a rare disorder - her memory blanks out, leaving her clueless about events that took place in a certain time period. Hence, she rarely socializes. But Ritu forcefully takes her to a nightclub.
Hijack
Hijack (2008)

Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about hijackings
Actors Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, K. K. Raina, Mona Ambegaonkar, Kaveri Jha, Rasika Dugal
Roles Saira
Rating38% 1.9426551.9426551.9426551.9426551.942655
Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja) is a ground maintenance engineer at the Chandigarh Airport. His social life is limited to one friend, Rajeev, the security chief of the same airport. Vikram's daughter is traveling with her teacher for a debate contest to Amritsar from Delhi. That flight gets hijacked by a group of six terrorists working for a man named Rasheed (KK Raina) who has been captured by the Indian police. The flight is forced to land at the Chandigarh Airport. These terrorists demand the release of Rasheed from the Indian Government or they threaten to kill the hostages inside the aircraft. Now Vikram is faced with a dilemma of being the only man who can sneak inside the aircraft and try to save the life of his daughter Priya. Once he breaches into the aircraft with the help of air hostess Saira (Esha Deol), he starts plotting and planning and killing the terrorists one by one. Some innocent passengers become the victims of the terrorists and die. However somehow Vikram and Saira together saved the day.
Money Hai Toh Honey Hai, 2h22
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Aftab Shivdasani, Upen Patel, Govinda, Hansika Motwani, Celina Jaitley, Manoj Bajpayee
Rating29% 1.48231.48231.48231.48231.4823
Money Hai Toh Honey Hai is a striking comedy, which deals with six individuals. Bobby Arora (Govinda) is a happy-go-lucky guy who runs away from home to prove himself as a to-do child. Lallabhai (Manoj Bajpai) becomes wealthy after his lottery win of 1 crore rupees. But he’s back on the road as his business fails and he loses all his money. Gaurav (Aftab Shivdasani) is a copy writer who is fired from his job. Manik (Upen Patel), a struggling model who sleeps with a middle-age fashion designer, Dolly (Archana Puran Singh), hoping to make it big. Ashima Kapoor (Hansika Motwani) is a successful TV star but she’s not happy with her career and is desperate to do films as the lead heroine. Shruti (Celina Jaitley) is a struggling dress designer.
Just Married, 1h22
Directed by Meghna Gulzar
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Jugal Hansraj, Perizaad Zorabian, Kiron Kher, Satish Shah
Roles Ritika Khanna
Rating54% 2.7091252.7091252.7091252.7091252.709125
Five couples are on their honeymoon at Ooty and share the same hotel. All of them are pretty newly wed, except for one couple who are celebrating their wedding anniversary. Together the couples take many tours and visit sites together in Ooty and get to know each other on a personal level. Slowly and steadily a host of stories open up about each of them.
Cash
Cash (2007)
, 2h13
Directed by Anubhav Sinha
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Ajay Devgn, Suniel Shetty, Ritesh Deshmukh, Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Shamita Shetty
Roles Pooja
Rating34% 1.7150451.7150451.7150451.7150451.715045
The film opens with Danny (Zayed Khan) boarding an plane. A girl named Ria (Ayesha Takia), enters the flight, talking very loudly and rudely to a somebody on her phone, irrationally arguing as to why people should not travel on aeroplanes. She even mistreats the cabin crew and casually asks Danny to put something in her bag. Seeing an opportunity to talk to her as they are both alone in the business section of the flight, he introduces himself as Dhananjay Jumbevalkar and craftily manages to engage her in a conversation and they decide that over the course of the journey, he will tell her a story of three unique diamonds worth 200 carats each.
Darling
Darling (2007)

Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Actors Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Isha Koppikar, Priyanka Kothari, Upendra Limaye, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Roles Geeta A. Menon
Rating40% 2.023362.023362.023362.023362.02336
Aditya is seemingly living every Indian man's dream. He's married to a stunning, traditional wife, Ashwini and has a bright young boy. But he is having a relationship with his secretary, Geeta Menon who has a wild personality. He manages to balance both the ladies perfectly with clever lies. He promises Geeta he will marry her, after divorcing his wife Ashwini. He seems to display fetish behaviours among the two ladies.
Ankahee
Ankahee (2006)
, 2h31
Directed by Vikram Bhatt
Actors Aftab Shivdasani, Ameesha Patel, Esha Deol, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Vikas Bhalla, Ashwini Kalsekar
Roles Kaavya Krishna (as Esha)
Rating47% 2.3740852.3740852.3740852.3740852.374085
Ankahee begins with Sheena (Hrishita Bhatt) arriving at home, when her mother Nandita (Ameesha Patel) tells her that her father Shekhar (Aftab Shivdasani) has sent her a letter and wants to meet her as he’s dying from illness. Sheena refuses to meet her father, as he abandoned her & her mother for sixteen years when Sheena was just six years of age. As her mother persuades her to meet him, she finally agrees to pay her father a visit and she sees him in a bad situation under careful nursing. Unable to express his feelings, Shekhar lends his daughter a diary in which he wrote about all the incidents that led to his break-off. Henceforth, the story of Dr. Shekhar unspools.
Pyare Mohan, 2h13
Directed by Indra Kumar
Genres Comedy
Actors Fardeen Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol, Amrita Rao, Boman Irani, Adi Irani
Roles Preeti
Rating34% 1.723331.723331.723331.723331.72333
The movie starts with the death of a dreaded don Tony (Boman Irani). Then the movie focuses on Pyare (Fardeen Khan), who is blind and Mohan (Vivek Oberoi) who is deaf after they meet a severe accident (they were actors). Both are friends and seem to be happy with their disability but they crave the love of a girl who will love them for who they are. They eventually come across two sisters Preeti (Esha Deol) and Priya (Amrita Rao). The men fall in love with them and begin to dream of a life with them. Unfortunately, the girls have the opposite feeling and see them only as friends and when they ask for the reason why they don't love them, they learn it is because of their disabilities. And so, burdened by their disabilities the girls leave for Bangkok as they have a show there.
Dus
Dus (2005)
, 2h22
Directed by Anubhav Sinha
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Suniel Shetty, Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Shilpa Shetty
Roles ATC Agent Neha
Rating55% 2.7504652.7504652.7504652.7504652.750465
In the opening scene, Siddhant Dheer (Sanjay Dutt), the head of the Anti-Terrorist Cell (a fictitious organisation), narrates how rampant terrorism has become in the world and goes on to tell the story of 7 of the hardest days in his life.
Kaal
Kaal (2005)
, 3h26
Directed by Soham Shah
Origin Inde
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Esha Deol, Shahrukh Khan
Roles Riya Thapar
Rating47% 2.350612.350612.350612.350612.35061
Two British nationals are killed by a ferocious tiger in Orbit National Park in India. This incident follows several other tiger attacks, and many deaths result, prompting National Geographic to send a correspondent, Krish Thapar (John Abraham) to the national park and ascertain what really happened. Thapar is accompanied by his wife Riya (Esha Deol). A group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra (Vivek Oberoi), Ishika (Lara Dutta), Sajid (Kushal Punjabi) and Vishal (Vishal Malhotra), on a hunting trip also arrive in Orbit National Park in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey.
Main Aisa Hi Hoon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Ajay Devgn, Sushmita Sen, Esha Deol, Anupam Kher, Lillete Dubey, Aanjjan Srivastav
Roles Maya D. Trivedi
Rating49% 2.4559052.4559052.4559052.4559052.455905
Mentally challenged Indraneel Thakur (Ajay Devgan) works as a waiter in a coffee shop while he raises his daughter Gungun (Rucha Vaidya) as a single parent. Gungun loves him very much and in an attempt to remain at his level, refuses to go to school.
No Entry
No Entry (2005)
, 2h41
Directed by Anees Bazmee
Origin Inde
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Lara Dutta, Esha Deol
Roles Pooja
Rating65% 3.298353.298353.298353.298353.29835
Kishen (Anil Kapoor) has a suspicious-minded wife, Kaajal (Lara Dutta), who thinks he is always having an affair with another woman, even though he is extremely faithful to her and wouldn't dream of betraying her in any way. Prem (Salman Khan) has the opposite situation. He is married to Pooja (Esha Deol), who seems to be very trusting, even though he has been having several affairs with numerous gorgeous women. There is also Kishen's friend Shekhar (Fardeen Khan), who accidentally falls in love with Sanjana (Celina Jaitley) and marries her. Then Bobby (Bipasha Basu), a call girl, enters the story. When Kishen takes pictures of Prem and his girlfriend, and threatens to send them to his wife, Prem hires Bobby to seduce Kishen. The plan is that Kishen will fall in love with her, and Prem wants to see if Kishen can hide the relationship. Then the lies start happening, as Kaajal thinks Bobby is Shekhar's wife, and Sanjana thinks Bobby is Kishen's wife. It becomes a bundle of confusion and comedy when all the various people and couples start meeting.