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"We were brought up to believe in family values" - Sunny Deol
 A father and son anywhere on this earth share a relationship that defies logic. At times there is passionate love and there are times when they draw their swords. But whatever the chemistry, the underlying love for each other is amply evident in every father-son relationship.
One of the premier families of Bollywood, the Deols also share a wonderful relationship. We feature Dharmendra and Sunny Deol's enviable relationship. And Sunny firmly credits it all to the value system ingrained in him by his parents. One of the primary fundas being that becoming and remaining a good human being is much more important than being a successful person.
Over to Sunny.
On values:
How important is it to be a good human being to succeed?
"See, you can only be what you are; you can't put up any facade for too long. I have been blessed to get parents who have rubbed on to their children a lot of values - moral, family and social. I used to wonder how my dad or mom could beat me or be so strict with me, but today I realize that all that has made me a better person!
I think that such things are very important regardless of which profession one chooses. It's important to be a good person and a good professional. For at the end of the day you have to look into the mirror and be happy! Of course, if you are happy being a bad person, that's fine! I have been brought up to believe that you are finally answerable only to yourself and to your conscience."
No fool:
But are not good people taken for a ride?
"'Yes," he answers. "But that doesn't mean that you should change. That's what dad says too. It happened a lot with dad, it's happened a lot with me, but it doesn't matter. I tell the person, 'I know what you are doing, and I am letting you do it. Don't think that I am a fool.'
Papa the great:
How does he rate his dad as an actor and as a human being then?
"To me, my dad is the best, and not because he's my dad. I mean, as a person I know that he's great, but as an actor too I know that's he's fabulous. He's done a Satyakam , he's done a Phool Aur Patthar , an Ayee Milan Ki Bela , a Bandini , a Chupke Chupke , a Sholay , a Mera Gaon Mera Desh , and a Hukumat . So he's done all kind of films and they have been successful. Other actors have not been able to be equally successful in different moulds. And that's because he would portray the characters right and get into them. It was only after the '80s and '90s that he could get good directors and subjects, so he was limited in his work.
To me, I would rate him as the best actor we ever had, better than even Dilip-saab , Amitabh Bachchan or anybody else, because I would like to see them do the variety of roles that he has done with so much justification. It was never Dharmendra the star doing a role, my dad was always portraying the specific character. With the others, it was the star-image that dominated the character. Even today, I think that the audience is dying to see him again in a good role and that's basically why I am making the film that stars all of us. You see, for six years I have been trying to convince filmmakers of making a good film with my dad, but all that they want to do is take the easy way out and make teenybopper films."
Out of sync:
Magazines nowadays do not carry features on his father on the grounds that he 'doesn't sell'. What does he think of that?
"You see, these people who are passing these judgments sitting in their rooms are the people who party around in society and they need something trendy to talk about. They are totally out of sync with what the masses want to know, whom the masses love. So nobody knows what the masses want, because these people want to be in their own glory which is within them. That's the reason why such things happen - it's so stupid!
My father has been loved by the masses for over 40 years now! I consider myself lucky to have even reached half-way. And I think that it's all been possible only because of the way Bobby and I have been raised from childhood."
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