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Sunil Pal at Kailash Kher Kailasa's Rangeele Album Launch
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Sunil Pal Hinganghat |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Comedian, Actor, Voice actor |
Known for | Stage comedy |
Website | sunilpal |
Sunil Pal was born in Hinganghat( District :Wardha) (Maharashtra, India). He is a popular Indian comedian, actor and voice actor, and the 2005 winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on STAR One. Lately he has been seen acting in many Bollywood flicks doing minor comic roles.
In 2010, he wrote and directed a comedy film, Bhavnao Ko Samjho, which featured a record 51 stand-up comedians including Siraj Khan, Johny Lever, Raju Shrivastav, Kapil Sharma, Naveen Prabhakar, Ehsaan Qureshi and many more.
Sunil Pal came to Mumbai in 1995 when his father (who then used to work with Indian Railways) got transferred. He studied in Janata Vidyalaya city branch Ballarpur school. He joined the Junior College.There he used to mimic his professors and famous actors. After college, he struggled for three years.
During one of his interviews, he says that "I was working at a tea stall in Santacruz as waiter. Those days I'd sleep on the footpath. And I used to use the telephones of a nearby shop to keep in touch with my contacts in film industry."
In 2000, Sunil got a chance to do a world tour with Aamir Khan for Lagaan as a junior artist. He was also involved in other tours of famous actors like Priety Zinta and Aishwarya Rai.
Later Sunil Pal contested in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, and won the competition. He was the favourite of viewers, who were enthralled by his remarkable ability of impersonating many film actors (like Sunil Shetty, Nana Patekar, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, and Irfan Khan) with commanding progress. In addition, his self-created character of the drunkard "Ratan Noora" was widely admired.