About
Sonu Sood is an Indian actor known across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada cinema, but became a national household name in 2020 for organising the return of tens of thousands of migrant workers stranded across India during the COVID-19 lockdown. Born in Moga, Punjab in 1973, he studied engineering before moving into modelling and acting, breaking through in "Yuva" (2004) and playing memorable roles in "Dabangg", "Simmba", "Happy New Year", and Prabhas's Telugu blockbusters. During the pandemic he ran a personal helpline that reunited migrants with families, funded oxygen concentrators and hospital tie-ups, and later published "I Am No Messiah". He has continued philanthropic work — scholarships for underprivileged students, health support, and rural infrastructure — earning him recognition as a "SDG Special Humanitarian Action" ambassador for the UN.
Projects
I Am No Messiah
Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap
Hands Up!
Sheesha
Osthe
Ek Vivaah... Aisa Bhi
Arundhati
Mr. Medhavi
Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai
Aagadu
Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi
Saahasam
Ashok
Madha Gaja Raja
Super
Xuanzang
City of Life
Sood Charity Foundation — Ongoing Humanitarian Work
Shakti
Rambaan
Acharya
Fateh
Simmba
Ek Niranjan
Yuva
Julai
Dookudu (2011)
Paltan
Happy New Year
Timeline
Worked with
Shah Rukh Khan
1 shared project
Deepika Padukone
1 shared project
Ranveer Singh
1 shared project
Karan Johar
1 shared project
Boman Irani
1 shared project
Gauri Khan
1 shared project
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
1 shared project
Sara Ali Khan
2 shared projects
Jackie Shroff
3 shared projects
Dino Morea
1 shared project
Anupam Kher
1 shared project
Brahmanandam
2 shared projects
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