Trivia

He is a black belt in Full Contact Kick Boxing.

His favourite character is Dev which is also very close to his heart he had performed the character in his film Dhadkan (2000).

Formed a popular team with Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal.

He has changed his name to Suniel Shetty.

He is mostly called "Anna" by his friends & costars.

Was signed for Akshay Kumar's role in Elaan.

Often likes to do patriotic roles such as Border (1997), Qayamat: City Under Threat (2003), and Mohra (1994).

Is considered a major action star in Indian cinema and his action abilities was the reason for his success.

Elder sister named Sujata. She is settled on America and recently joined her brother in a business venture.

Wife's name was Mana Qadri before marriage. Daughter of IM Qadri a architect and Vipula Qadri. Mana has a sister named Isha and a brother named Rahul.

Starred in a ''Untitled Project'' opposite Sridevi. The movie was inspired by Hollywood's film The Bodyguard and the shooting was scheduled to start in 1994 but it got shelved. It was to be directed by Sanjay Gupta.

Had a major problem with Sawan Kumar Tak, Sawan had signed Sunil for a film then decided to shelve the film. 2 years later he returned to Sunil and wanted him to do the film. Sunil refused.

Father's name is Veerapa Shetty.

He owns a company called "Popkorn Entertainment" which produces films.

His favourite Bollywood actor is Amitabh Bachchan.

Signed for Vinod Khanna's role in Eena Meena Deeka but opted out.

Released a children's nursery rhyme album titled "Jantar Mantar" in 2000. The nursery rhymes were in Hindi and English. Sunil Shetty sang on the album and recited nursery rhymes along with Sudesh Bhonsale, Rahul De Mello etc. The songs were a combination of Hip Hop,Reggae and Rock n Roll. Music was composed by Anand Raaj Anand. The album was released on Times Music.

Signed Mukesh Duggal's Teer Kaman in 1991.It later got made as Gopi Kishen.

Is sometimes compared to Dolph Lundgren as his alter-ego from India.

His wife name is Mana (Monisha) and they have two children named Athiya and Aahan.

Starred in shelved film "Geherai" (1994) starring Naseeruddin Shah, Sunil Shetty, Anupam Kher, Raveena Tandon, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Alok Nath, Raza Murad, Mohnish Bahl.

Starred in the shelved film, Shanketan Films LTD "Karmveer" (1995) Starring Vinod Khanna, Sunil Shetty, Emraan Khan (Replaced Jay Mehta),,Ashwini Bhave, Vaishnavi,Goga Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Music by Bappi Lahiri,Directed by Akash Mehra. Reels:13.

Starred in Anees Bazmee's shelved film Amit Arts " Radheshyam Sitaram" Starring Sunil Shetty, Aishwarya Rai (Both of them were playing double roles),Raj Babbar,Sheeba Farida Jalal,Reema Lagoo,Sharad Kapoor,Guddi Maharuti,Deepak Qazir,Paresh Rawal,Prem Chopra,Mushtaq Khan, Shyama Deshpande,Dinesh Hingoo, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,Smita Jayakar.Music by Dilip Sen. Sameer Sen,Produced by Shabnam Kapoor, Directed by Anees Bazmee. The film was based on the comedy of error's. This was in 2001.

Starred in Nitin Manmohan and RamGopal Varma productions shelved untitled film. Co starring Manisha Koirala. Directed by Tamara Nedungadi. This was in 2001.

Starred in the shelved film "Juaa" co starring Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala. Directed by Partho Gosh. This was in 1997.

Starred in Ravi Dewan's shelved film opposite Juhi Chawla in 1999.

Sunil Shetty's first film was "Ek Aur Faulad" directed by David Dhawan produced by Pahlaj Nihalani, but creative differences made the film still unreleased and Shetty's first release became "Balwaan" opposite Divya Bharti.

Starred in the shelved movie, Monalisa Films, "Hum Panchi Ek Daal Ke"(1997)Starring Sunil Shetty,Aishwarya Rai,Mohan Bhandari, Mukesh Tiwari,Deepak Shirke,Shiva, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Ashutosh Rana,Music by Vishal Bhardwaj, Directed by K. Shashilal Nair. Reels:5.

Starred in the shelved movie, Noorani Film Corporation's "Untitled Movie" Starring Sunil Shetty, Mamta Kulkarni,Ashish Vidyarthi,Mohan Joshi, Ranjeet. Music by Anu Malik, Directed by Ravee.Reels:1.

Starred in the shelved movie Shiva Art International's "Chori Mera Kaam" (1995) Starring Salman Khan,Sunil Shetty,Kajol, Shilpa Shetty,Shakti Kapoor, Mohan Joshi,Kader Khan, Music by Anu Malik, Directed by Aziz Sejawal. Reels :6.

Starred in the shelved film, M.J.Films's "Lafange"(1997) Starring Sunil Shetty, Mukul Dev,Music by Jatin -Lalit, Produced by Milan.C. Jhaveri,Directed by N.Chandra.

Starred in the completed and unreleased movie, Prince N Prince International's "Andaz Tera Mastana" (1997) Starring Siddharth Dhawan,Monica Bedi,Sidhant Salaria,Mohan Joshi, Paresh Rawal,Kader Khan,Sunil Shetty in Special Appearance. Music by Anand - Milind, Produced by Mukesh Duggal, Directed by Himanshu Brahmbhatt..

Starred in a shelved movie Kamna Arts ''Kashmakash'' (Faraar) co-starring Juhi Chawla ,Pooja Batra, Mayuri Kango, Om Puri, Alok Nath,Raju Kher, Karminder Kaur, Neeraj Vohra, Produced by Jimmy Nirula,Maan Singh Deep.The film was directed by Priyadarshan and 90% of it was completed. Akshay Kumar did a cameo appearance in the film.

Starred in the shelved movie Shreya Creations "Chai Garam" (2011) Starring Govinda,Suniel Shetty,Celina Jaitly,Esha Deol,Urvashi Sharma,Jaaved Jaaferi,Rajpal Yadav,Ravi Kishan,Anupam Kher,Music by Anand Raj Anand,Shamir Tandon,Sanjay Pathak. Directed by Aditya Datt.

Starred in the shelved movie "Afra Tafree" (2012) Starring Govinda,Suniel Shetty,Mugdha Godse,Aarya Babbar,Uvika Chaudhary,Vimala Raman,Ashwini Kalsekar,Gulshan Grover,Mukul Dev, Music by Amjad Bagadba,Nadeem Khan,Dabboo Malik, Produced by Krishan Chaudhery,Vipin Jain, Directed by Haadi Abrar.

Starred in Yusuf Khan's shelved film "Confusion" (2007) Starring Sunil Shetty, Pakistani actor Omar Sharif.The film is about three couples from Mumbai who fly to London and the confusion that ensues".

Starred in Mahendra Dhariwal's shelved film "Dharti" directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. The film was based on illegal immigration to Europe.

Starred in Vinay Sinha's shelved film in 2002. Starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Apoorva Agnihotri. Directed by Kalpana Lajmi.

Starrer in Shakeel Noorani's shelved film Noorani Film Corporation's "Rustom"(1995). Starring Sunil Shetty, Manisha Koirala,Paresh Rawal,Anupam Kher, Music by Anu Malik, Directed by Harry Baweja.

Starred in Mukesh Duggal's shelved film "Kala Pani" (1993). Staring Ajay Devgan, Karishma Kapoor (Replaced Divya Bharti), Sunil Shetty. Directed by Mahesh Bhatt (Later Anees Bazmee was signed for the film).

Starred in the shelved film Shetty Films Associtates "Do Kadam Aage" ( 1992). Starring Sunil Shetty, Divya Bharti, Rohit Bhatia,Raza Murad, Kiran Kumar, Music by Nadeem Shravan, Directed by K.V. Raju.

Starred in shelved film S.P. Creations "Shola"(1995) Starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Lalita Pawar's grandson Manoj Pawar. Produced by Paramjeet Baweja and Directed by Harry Baweja.

Starred in the shelved film F A S International's "Jaahil" (1995). Starring Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon,Johny Lever, Kader Khan,Harish Patel,Written by Kader Khan. Produced by Farook, Aslam, Santosh. Directed by Sanjay Khanna. The film was being directed by Kader Khan and had Amitabh Bachchan in the lead. This was in the early 80's. The film got shelved when Amitabh got injured. Raj Sippy attempted to restart the film with Jackie Shroff in 1985. Rakesh Roshan attempted to restart it with Amitabh in 1989. It got shelved once again.

In 1991 he was signed for a film titled "Arzoo" opposite Nagma. This was to be produced by Pahlaj Nihalani. Starring Shatrughan Sinha,Sunil Shetty, Nagma,Raj Babbar. Music by Anand Milind. It was shelved due to a argument he had with Pahlaj. Pahlaj claims the film was suppose to be start to finish film. He signed Deepak Shivdasani because he liked Baaghi. Pahlaj knew Shetty would be good in action films. But after seeing the rushes of the film,Pahlaj was shocked. Deepak Shivdsani casted Sunil Shetty as a musician with no action in the film. Fearing the film would bomb,Pahlaj decided it was best to shelve the film. Pahlaj knew that shelving the film would hurt Sunil Shetty. So he decided to announce 2 more films with Sunil so the industry would not back off and sign Sunil for other films. But then the rumours started that Sunil Shetty was financing his own films and Pahlaj was only a front person .

Sisters name is Sujata R Hedge and Sunita Tarun Pratap.

Starred in the shelved movie "Sikander Sadak Ka"(1994). Starring Sunil Shetty, Somy Ali.

Went for a world tour concert with Akshay Kumar in July 2001. They visited cities in Canada, America and England.

Younger sister named Sumita.

Was signed to play a triple role in the film Main Khuda Nahin (1993). The film got shelved.

Starred in the shelved movie Prince & Prince International's "Chor Sipahee" (1996) Starring Sunil Shetty,Paresh Rawal,Shakti Kapoor,Saeed Jaffrey, Music by Anu Malik, Produced by Mukesh Duggal, Directed by Anees Bazmee.