{"id":300997,"date":"2026-01-24T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/300997\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:39:07","slug":"sunny-deol-credited-as-dharmendra-ji-ka-beta-in-border-2-fans-call-it-perfect-tribute-to-veteran-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/300997\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Deol credited as \u2018Dharmendra ji ka beta\u2019 in Border 2, fans call it perfect tribute to veteran actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Sunny Deol<\/a>\u2019s latest release, Border 2, hit screens this Friday. The film is directed by Anurag Singh and is a sequel to his 1997 hit, Border, directed by JP Dutta. What caught fans\u2019 attention was how Sunny paid tribute to his father, the late Dharmendra, in the film\u2019s credits.<\/p>\n

\"SunnySunny Deol paid tribute to his father, the late Dharmendra, in his latest release Border 2.Sunny Deol credited as \u2018Dharmendra ji ka beta\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Border 2<\/a>, Sunny has been credited as \u2018Dharmendra ji ka beta\u2019 (Dharmendra\u2019s son) in the film\u2019s opening credits. Posting a picture of Dharmendra and Sunny, a fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter), \u201cWow, what a tribute to the late Dharmendra Ji by #Border2 team. Sunny Deol is introduced as “Dharmendra ka Beta” at the start of movie credits. Some people can say isme kya wo beta hi to hai (what\u2019s so special, he\u2019s his son), but empathic people will understand the core of the emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

While sharing the film\u2019s review on social media too, many noted how Sunny was credited in the film. \u201cHighlight of #Border2 sunny deol introduced as Dharmendra ji ka beta,\u201d wrote an X user. Another praised his performance despite being in his 60s, writing, \u201cAt the age of 68, #SunnyDeol ROARS like a lion. Dharmendra Ji Ka Beta is nailing it. (Well, that\u2019s how he\u2019s been introduced).\u201d One fan even commented, \u201cWhat a perfect tribute to Dharam ji. #Border2.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the unversed, Dharmendra died on November 24, 2025, days ahead of his 90th birthday on December 8. The veteran actor was hospitalised at Mumbai\u2019s Breach Candy hospital before that, but was sent home to recuperate. His last film, Ikkis, was released in theatres on January 1 posthumously.<\/p>\n

About Border 2<\/p>\n

Border 2 is an epic war action film that is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, JP Dutta, and Nidhi Dutta under the banners of T-Series Films and JP Films. It is set against the backdrop of the India\u2013Pakistan war of 1971. Sunny, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ahan Shetty, Mona Singh, Sonam Bajwa, Anya Singh, and Medha Rana star in it. The film collected \u20b930 crore in India on its opening day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Sunny Deol\u2019s latest release, Border 2, hit screens this Friday. The film is directed by Anurag Singh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[94666,2345,18,117,19,17,327,2976,148600],"class_list":{"0":"post-300997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-border-2","9":"tag-dharmendra","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-sunny-deol","16":"tag-sunny-deol-border-2-credit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115949178902971460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}