These days Sunny Deol is in a lot of discussion about his upcoming film ‘Border-2’. This film is going to be released on 23 January 2026. Before the release of ‘Border-2’, we will tell you about that film of Sunny Deol which was a hit at the box office and also changed the fortunes of Sunny Deol.

Bollywood got an action hero
The funniest thing about that film was that Sunny Deol had gambled on a rejected film of his father Dharmendra and the same film became the turning point of his career. That film was ‘Paap Ki Duniya’ which Dharmendra had rejected.

This film proved to be a golden opportunity for Sunny Deol. Sunny made full use of this opportunity with her hard work and acting and Bollywood got a new action hero.

Dharmendra refused
‘Paap Ki Duniya’ is the 1988 film which changed Sunny Deol’s fortunes, and its interesting story is something like this. According to the IMDB report, the film’s director Shibu Mitra had earlier written the story for this film keeping Dharmendra in mind. In that era, Dharmendra’s action image and star power could make any film a great success at the box office.

Two conditions before the director
According to the report, after the film ‘Aag Hi Aag’, Shibu Mitra offered ‘Paap Ki Duniya’ to Dharmendra, but Dharmendra flatly refused to do it. For refusing this, he put two conditions before the director.

The first condition was that the lead role in the film should be given to his son Sunny Deol. The second condition was that if Sunny gets the film, Dharmendra will take half of his fee for the next film.

The makers were afraid that this change might complicate the film’s project, but everyone bowed to Dharmendra’s conditions and accepted it. After this, Sunny Deol also agreed to work in the film on the advice of his father.

Profit tripled
According to the report of Sacknilk, the film ‘Paap Ki Duniya’ was made with a budget of Rs 2 crore. It made a huge collection of Rs 9 crore at the box office. Meaning, this film proved to be a superhit by earning three times the profit.

With this earning, the film became one of the top earning films of 1988. Not only did it become the turning point in Sunny Deol’s career, but this film also proved lucky for Nimal Kothari, Chunky Pandey, and Danny.