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Sonu sood family, Full biography

Born          30 July 1973 (age 46)

                   Moga, Punjab, India

Education      Yeshwantrao Chavan College                            of Engineering, Nagpur (B.E.)

Occupation     Actormodelfilm producer

Years active      1999–present

• Does Sonu Sood drink alcohol?: No^[6]

• Sonu Sood is an Indian actor who mainly works in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films.

• Sonu was born in a upper middle-class family in Moga, Punjab.
  
  

  Sonu Sood in childhood

• After completing his schooling, Sonu worked at his father’s showroom in Moga for a while.
  
  

  Sonu Sood in his school days

• He, then, did his graduation in Electronic Engineering from the Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur.

• When he was in the second year of his college, Sood got motivated to pursue modelling and acting as his career.
  
  

  Sonu Sood in his modelling days

• After graduating, Sonu relocated to Mumbai and began searching for work.

• When he went to Mumbai, Sonu ha just Rs. 5500 along with him.

• Sonu spent his initial days in Mumbai in a one-room-kitchen apartment with six other boys.

• During his struggling days in Mumbai, Sood did a job in a private firm in South Mumbai to support his everyday expenses.

• As his job involved field work, he got a monthly train pass made from Borivali to Churchgate.
  
  

  Sonu Sood’s monthly train pass

• From his office job, he used to earn Rs. 4500 per month.

• Prior to becoming an actor, Sood had participated in the Grasim Mr. India contest and reached the top 5.

• Sonu made his acting debut in 1999 with the Tamil film, “Kallazhagar.”

• He marked his debut in Bollywood in 2002 with the Bollywood film, “Shaheed-E-Azam.”

• Sood shot to fame after appearing in the Bollywood film “Yuva.”
  
  

  Sonu Sood in Yuva

• Some of his popular Telugu films include “Athadu,” “Ashok,” “Arundhati,” “Ek Niranjan,” and “Shakti.”
  
  

  Sonu Sood in Ashok

• Sonu has worked in many popular Bollywood films, including “Aashiq Banaya Aapne,” “Dabangg,” “Happy New Year,” “Gabbar Is Back,” and “Simmba.”
  
  

  Sonu Sood in Dabangg

• Sood has also featured in the Chinese film, “Xuanzang.”
  
  

  Sonu Sood in Xuanzang

• Due to the common surname, once Miss India finalist and actress Asmita Sood, was mistaken as his sister.

• He has worked in 7 different language movies: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, English, and Punjabi.

• He was supposed to act in Hindi and Telugu remake of Zanjeer but had to pull back due to his injury.

• Despite being spiritual, he halted praying for around 4 years after his mother expired.

• His first modelling assignment earned him Rs. 500, which he spent to buy himself a denim.

• Sonu is very particular about his fitness and hits the gym regularly.
  
  

  Sonu Sood inside the gym

• He has appeared on the covers of many popular magazines, like “You & I,” “Health & Nutrition,” “Just Urbane,” and “Krunch Today.”
  
  

  Sonu Sood on the cover of the Just Urbane Magazine

• Sonu is an ardent follower of Lord Ganesha.
  
  

  Sonu Sood praying to Lord Ganesha

• Sood is passionate about animals and has a pet dog, Snowy.
  
  

  Sonu Sood with his pet dog

• He did a film Kung Fu Yoga with Jackie Chan, during the shoot of which they became good friends.
  
  

  Sonu Sood with Jackie Chan

• He has a production house called Shakti Sagar Productions.

• Amid the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was hailed for helping migrants. Sonu helped thousands of migrant workers, stranded by the Covid-19 lockdown in Mumbai, return home. While talking about it in an interview, Sonu said,

Sonu sood helping migrant in covid-19 pandemic. 

Several migrant workers left for Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in two special trains from Thane station on Monday.

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari hosted a meeting with film actor Sonu Sood on Saturday at the Raj Bhavan. Koshiyari applauded Sood's efforts in sending the migrant workers back to their home states under the lockdown situation.

The Twitter account of Governer of Maharashtra shared images of Bhagat Singh and Sonu from the meeting, where both, including the help, were seen in a mask. According to the image, Sonu was seen reading out something from a piece of paper to the governer.