Sunil Pal

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Sunil Pal was born in Chandarpur(Maharastra, India).He is a popular Indian comedian and actor. He is the 2005 winner of the Great The Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One. Lately he has been seen acting in many Bollywood flicks doing minor comic roles.

[edit] Early Life

Sunil Pal came to Mumbai in 1995 when his father(who then used to work with Indian Railways) got transferred. He joined the Junier College. There he used to mimic his professors and famous acters. After college, he stuggled for three years. During one of his interviews, he says that "I was working at a tea stall at 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."[1]

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 acters like Priety Zinta, Aishwarya Rai. On a tour with Sonu Nigam, he met Neeraj Vohra(writer and directed) who later gave him a role in Hera pheri 2. 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, Nassaruddin Shah, and Irfan Khan) with commanding prowess. Soon after the show followed many small roles in Bollywood movies. So far he has worked in 7 films.His first major Hindi film, Bombay to Goa released in 2007, although he has played small bit roles in Hum Tum or Phir Hera Pheri.